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This illustration depicts three different of models of NASA's solar-powered Mars helicopter. In the upper right is...
Dr. Kristen John, principal investigator for Hermes at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, talks to NASA Social...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a worker...
Researchers are in the Microgravity Simulation Support Facility (MSSF) inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and...
Supported on a lift fixture, this radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), at center, is hoisted from its...
Catherine Koerner, second from right, NASA Orion Program manager, along with senior managers from Orion, Exploration...
Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, engineers and...
In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-99 Commander Kevin Kregel waves as he suits up during final launch...
The shipping container holding NASA's Lucy spacecraft is unloaded from an Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft on the...
Gathered on the parking apron at the Shuttle Landing Facility after their arrival is the STS-92 crew. Commander...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A full-size test mock-up of the Orion spacecraft moves from the Operations and Checkout...
Inside the high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-125 crew members pose for the traditional...
Tom Engler, deputy director of Center Planning and Development at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, speaks to...
In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a Ball...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers David Rice, at left, and Johnny Melendez rotate a radioisotope...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, members of the STS-122 crew get a close look at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Technicians and workers watch as the Rack Insertion Device (at left) moves the end cap...
In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Ball...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A full-size test mock-up of the Orion spacecraft moves from the Operations and Checkout...
Carrying a neutron radiation detector, Fred Sanders (at center), a health physicist with the Jet Propulsion...
STS-94 Payload Specialist Gregory T. Linteris waves as he completes the donning of his launch/entry suit in the...
STS077-150-129 (20 May 1996) --- Following its deployment from the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Spartan...
Technicians and engineers encapsulate NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of...