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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Cupola, an element scheduled to be installed on the International Space Station in...
Caroline Nowlan, atmospheric physicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, speaks during a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The U.S. laboratory module, an element of the International Space Station, is lifted...
Technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program attach the Orion stage adapter to the interim cryogenic...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers are constructing 40-foot-diameter dish...
STS008-16-454 (30 Aug-5 Sept 1983) --- Following a precedent set early two decades ago during the Gemini program,...
Technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program attach the Orion stage adapter to the interim cryogenic...
NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California supported the agency in 2018 by...
This map shows the two locations of a research campaign by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover mission to investigate active...
Two images of the night sky were combined to show Earth and Venus as seen by the Mast Camera aboard NASA's Curiosity...
Ellen Stofan, under secretary for Science and Research at the Smithsonian Institution, speaks during a briefing on...
Flight Directors for NASA and Starliner presented an overview of the Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) to the...
61A-S-135 (5 Nov 1985) --- Two school teachers in training at the Johnson Space Center got their first ?real time?...
ISS013-E-71345 (28 August 2006) --- The crewmembers aboard the International Space Station took this oblique picture...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers peer inside after opening an end-cone of the U.S. laboratory module, an...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- As the sun goes down over Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Orbital...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- STS-105 Commander Scott Horowitz arrives at KSC aboard a T-38 jet to make final...
The crew of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) discussed their upcoming flight to the International Space Station...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- During pre-launch preparations, STS-105 Commander Scott Horowitz smiles in...
ISS040-E-074022 (22 July 2014) --- Because of city lights, several points in the mid-east along the Eastern...
The solar system today is an orderly place, much quieter than it was in its turbulent youth. How did our Sun, the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- STS-105 Commander Scott Horowitz checks over the T-38 before a morning training...
Technicians use a crane to lift the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow...
Technicians use a crane to lift the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow...