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NM21-401-012 (28 March 1996) --- The Space Shuttle Atlantis is backdropped over the darkness of space, and partially...
The GOES-K advanced weather satellite, already encapsulated in the Atlas 1 payload fairing, is carefully placed on...
Rescue team members are using a Boeing CST-100 Starliner training capsule to rehearse a search and rescue training...
On August 15, 2013, at the Naval Station Norfolk near NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, NASA and the U.S....
Inside a U.S. Navy ship, Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Landing and Recovery Director Melissa Jones, at right,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Framed by a blue hazy sky and bluer Atlantic Ocean, the Boeing Delta II rocket with the...
U.S. Navy divers and other personnel in a rigid hull inflatable boat are handling tether lines attached to a test...
Orion Landing and Recovery team members with Jacobs practice using a winch to prepare for Underway Recovery Test 7...
Rescue team members are using a Boeing CST-100 Starliner training capsule to rehearse a search and rescue training...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The transporter for the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket juts through the open...
Orion Landing and Recovery team members with Jacobs, practice using a winch to prepare for Underway Recovery Test 7...
Orion Underway Recovery Test 5 team members gather in the USS San Diego during wrap up of the series of tests....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- An Air Force HC-130 rescue tanker flies over the target area off Florida's central east...
U.S. Navy divers from EOD Mobile Unit 11, MDS Company 11-7 prepare their small boat for launch in the well deck of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Participants in a rescue training exercise, known as Mode VIII, wait for a support boat off...
The USS San Diego departs Naval Base San Diego in California on its way out to sea in the Pacific Ocean for the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) Bay 1 watch as the Keel Yoke Device...
Members of the recovery team watch as a test version of the Orion crew module is secured in the flooded well deck of...
At Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, a Centaur upper stage is mated to the lower stage Lockheed Martin...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, opens its doors for a media tour of its...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A representative of the 301st Rescue Squadron demonstrates rescue equipment that is used by...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Participants in a rescue training exercise, known as Mode VIII, are successfully launched...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In a rescue training exercise, known as Mode VIII, off Florida's central east coast, a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A U.S. Coast Guard HU-25 Falcon jet flies over a rescue boat during a training exercise,...