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NASA's Image and Video Library is one of the most comprehensive public archives of space imagery in the world, containing over 140,000 images, videos, and audio recordings spanning more than six decades of space exploration. From the earliest Mercury and Gemini missions through the Apollo Moon landings, the Space Shuttle era, and today's cutting-edge observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, this collection documents humanity's journey into the cosmos.

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NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -  Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP) number 3 and a set of twin solid rocket boosters, atop the crawler-transporter, inch along the crawlerway in support of the second engineering analysis vibration test on the crawler and MLP. The crawler is moving at various speeds up to 1 mph in an effort to achieve vibration data gathering goals as it leaves the VAB, travels toward Launch Pad 39A (framed between the boosters), and then returns.  The boosters are braced at the top for stability.  The primary purpose of these rollout tests is to gather data to develop future maintenance requirements on the transport equipment and the flight hardware. Various parts of the MLP and crawler transporter have been instrumented with vibration data collection equipment.
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Nov 21, 2003

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP) number 3 and a set of twin solid rocket boosters, atop the crawler-transporter, inch along the crawlerway in support of the second engineering analysis vibration test on the crawler and MLP. The crawler is moving at various speeds up to 1 mph in an effort to achieve vibration data gathering goals as it leaves the VAB, travels toward Launch Pad 39A (framed between the boosters), and then returns. The boosters are braced at the top for stability. The primary purpose of these rollout tests is to gather data to develop future maintenance requirements on the transport equipment and the flight hardware. Various parts of the MLP and crawler transporter have been instrumented with vibration data collection equipment.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP) number 3 and a set of twin solid rocket boosters, atop...

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NASA image: KSC-05-S-00047
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Mar 3, 2005

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How do we do Solid Rocket Booster retrieval? After the Solid Rocket Boosters have splashed down out in the ocean...

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NASA image: KSC-2010-4078
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Jul 14, 2010

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, spent solid rocket booster segments used for the...

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NASA image: Shuttle Boosters stacked in the VAB
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Jan 4, 2007

Shuttle Boosters stacked in the VAB

Workers continue stacking the solid rocket boosters in highbay 1 inside Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly...

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NASA image: Shuttle Boosters stacked in the VAB
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Jan 4, 2007

Shuttle Boosters stacked in the VAB

Workers continue stacking the twin solid rocket boosters in highbay 1 inside Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly...

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NASA image: KSC-2011-1806
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Feb 24, 2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A worker on Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, manipulates a...

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NASA image: NASA, Northrop Grumman Test Fire SLS BOLE Booster
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Jun 26, 2025

NASA, Northrop Grumman Test Fire SLS BOLE Booster

Teams from NASA and Northrop Grumman fire a ground-based version of a booster for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch...

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NASA image: KSC-2009-2144
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Mar 18, 2009

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Solid Rocket Booster Retrieval Ship Liberty Star tows a booster to the dock at Hangar AF...

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NASA image: KSC-2009-2141
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Mar 18, 2009

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Solid Rocket Booster Retrieval Ship Liberty Star tows a booster to the dock at Hangar AF...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd3766
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Nov 21, 2008

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a worker examines one of the...

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NASA image: Space Shuttle Project
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Jan 18, 1978

Space Shuttle Project

Pictured is an early testing of the Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) at the Thiokol facility in Utah. The SRMs later became...

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NASA image: KSC-2009-2142
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Mar 18, 2009

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the dock at Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the solid rocket...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd3733
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Nov 19, 2008

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the dock at Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers move the...

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NASA image: KSC-2009-2140
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Mar 18, 2009

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the dock at Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the frustum of a...

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NASA image: KSC-2009-2143
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Mar 18, 2009

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the dock at Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the straddle crane...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd3734
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Nov 19, 2008

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the dock at Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the straddle crane...

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NASA image: Orion EM-1 LH Forward Skirt Arrival and Offload
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Feb 1, 2017

Orion EM-1 LH Forward Skirt Arrival and Offload

The left-hand forward skirt for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters arrives by flatbed truck from...

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NASA image: October 2021 SLS Resource Reel_0119 MSFC SLS 10262021 Artemis I and Artemis II
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Oct 26, 2021

October 2021 SLS Resource Reel_0119 MSFC SLS 10262021 Artemis I and Artemis II

This resource reel shows work being completed for Artemis I and Artemis II. Features Artemis I stacking operations...

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NASA image: SLS-4091 August 2022 SLS Animation Resource Reel Short Form_1
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Aug 19, 2022

SLS-4091 August 2022 SLS Animation Resource Reel Short Form_1

animation scenes depict NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful rocket for a new era of human...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd3764
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Nov 21, 2008

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers inspect the aft section...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd3765
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Nov 21, 2008

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the frustum from two spent solid...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd3763
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Nov 21, 2008

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, two spent solid rocket boosters...

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NASA image: KSC-2009-2139
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Mar 18, 2009

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the dock at Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, one of the solid...

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NASA image: KSC-2009-2145
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Mar 18, 2009

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the dock at Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a solid rocket...

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