Parents and sister of Christa Macauliffe watching the space shuttle Challenger explode at the Kennedy Space Center, January, 1986.

"The Last Jew in Vinnitsa". It is said that the photograph was found in the pocket of dead soldier. Written on its reverse side was "Last Jew in Vinnitsa", 1941.

A man has his nose measured during Aryan race determination tests under Nazi Germany's Nuremberg Laws that was applied to determine whether a person was considered a “Jew”, 1940.

"The Agony of Omayra Sánchez". Omayra was a 13-year-old girl who got stuck in the volcanic debris of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano eruption. She died shortly after this photo was taken, 1985.

Bruce McCandless floating in space untethered, during mission STS-41B. McCandless was a principal designer of NASA's MMU jetpack. 1984.

A member of the United States Navy with a trophy Japanese skull. Skulls were the most common trophy US soldiers took from Japanese dead bodies. Some of the skulls were even mailed home to loved ones, April, 1944.

The body of a Viet Cong soldier is dragged behind an American armored vehicle en route to a burial site after the Battle of Suoi Bong Trang during the Vietnam War. February, 1966.

A boy holds his dead father’s trousers as he squats beside the spot where his father is to be buried, surrounded by soldiers and villagers digging graves for victims of an earthquake in Qazvin, Iran. 22 June, 2002.

A demonstrator is engulfed in flames of the Molotov cocktail he was about to throw at police during protests against the construction of a new international airport in Narita near Tokyo. March, 1978.

A wounded US Sgt. Ken Kozakiewicz (left) grieves as he learns that the body bag next to wounded Cpl. Michael Tsangarakis contains the remains of his friend Andy Alaniz. February, 1991.