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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, STS-122 Commander Stephen Frick checks out the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery is towed from Orbiter...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, engineers...
Members of the European Space Agency (ESA)/Airbus Defence and Space Solar Orbiter team inspect the Solar Orbiter...
STS077-150-094 (20 May 1996) --- Following its deployment from the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Spartan...
The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis I mission is one step closer to its flight to the Moon. With manufacture and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The prototype rover Artemis Jr. for NASA’s Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – In the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
STS063-712-072 (6 Feb 1995) --- Russia's Mir Space Station over the blue and white Earth during initial approach for...
The STS-92 crew exits the Operations and Checkout Building on their way to the Astrovan and Launch Pad 39A for a...
Preparations are underway to weigh NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, spacecraft in the clean room of the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft are lifted to the...
A Kennedy Space Center engineer prepares the Mass Spectrometer observing lunar operations (MSolo) instrument for...
Engineers install multilayer insulation (MLI) on the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) instrument...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., a portable...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Lockheed Martin technicians lower one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior...
In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a Ball...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) worker Mary Reaves mates connectors on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG)...
STS125-S-037 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers...
Technicians prepare the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) for NASA’s Volatile Investigating Polar...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – David Beaman, NASA Space Launch System spacecraft and payload integration manager, addresses...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Transported by truck, the environmentally controlled transportation container...
Technicians in Self-Contained Atmospheric Protective Ensemble (SCAPE) suits exit a truck near the Multi-Payload...