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STS068-S-037 (30 September 1994) --- The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Launch Pad 39A in a halo of light....
Tucked inside a protective payload transportation canister, NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, STS-122 Commander Stephen Frick checks out the...
Members of JPL's assembly, test and launch operations team for NASA's Perseverance mission show appreciation for...
Launched on June 20, 1996, the STS-78 mission’s primary payload was the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS), which...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An Airbus Beluga transporter taxis down the Shuttle Landing Facility to deliver the...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Transported by truck, the environmentally controlled transportation container...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis' payload...
Technicians integrate NASA’s four PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites to the evolved...
For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Bob Richards, co-founder and chief executive officer of Moon Express Inc., of Moffett Field,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Following rollback of the rotating service structure, or RSS, on Launch Pad 39A, Space...
The shipping container holding NASA's Lucy spacecraft is unloaded from a United States Air Force C-17 cargo plane,...
Elisabetta Cavazzuti, ASI IXPE program manager, Italian Space Agency, participates in a payload briefing for NASA’s...
For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating...
STS077-705-051 (20 May 1996) --- Following its deployment from the Space Shuttle Endeavour and its subsequent...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The Pegasus payload fairing opens during operations to remove the fairing from...
During pre-pack and fit check in the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-92 Mission Specialist Peter J.K....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- One of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory lunar spacecraft is lifted from...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Resting in a rotation and handling fixture, the U.S. Lab, a component of the...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The payload fairing that will protect NASA's National Polar-orbiting...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., the lifting...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Encapsulated in its payload fairing, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L,...