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As astronaut candidates, Nicole Mann and Jessica Meir train for extravehicular activity in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston. FASCINATING retro photographs that will take you on a journey from the first brave space pioneers through to the incredible technological advances of today have been revealed in a new book. Captivating images include Edwin Eugene ???Buzz??? Aldrin walking on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission on July 21, 1969. The photo was taken by Neil Armstrong, who was the first person to walk on the Moon. Another photograph shows the Visual Impairment Intracranial Pressure (VIIP) Syndrome which was identified in 2005, and was a spaceflight risk, demonstrated by NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, who is using a fundoscope to examine a colleague???s eye. Further pictures illustrate Jupiter???s south pole, as seen by NASA???s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 52,000 kilometres and NASA???s Cassini spacecraft took the image of Saturn and its main rings. The incredible pictures are part of a book called Space Exploration by writer and producer, Carolyn Collins Petersen. The book is published by Amberley Publishing. NASA / B. Stafford / Carolyn Collins Petersen / Amberley Publishing / mediadrumworld.com