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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Encapsulated in its payload fairing, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L,...
Engineers prepare the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) instrument for the multilayer insulation...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., the logo on the outside of...
Technicians integrate NASA’s four PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites to the evolved...
STS125-S-006 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
Serving as spacecraft communicators (CAPCOM) are Astronauts Guy S. Gardner (left), William F. Fisher (center), Bryan...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA Kennedy Space Center, the Atlas V fairing...
High up in the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
Inside the high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The launch of space shuttle Atlantis from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a Ball...
Launched on June 20, 1996, the STS-78 mission’s primary payload was the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS), which...
Workers atop Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex-2 prepare to secure the payload transportation...
Technicians install multi-layer insulation on the Sentinel-6B spacecraft on a work stand inside the Astrotech Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The prototype lander for NASA’s Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., NASA's Solar Dynamics...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-118 Mission Specialist Rick Mastracchio...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., Lockheed...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
A Kennedy Space Center engineer prepares the Mass Spectrometer observing lunar operations (MSolo) instrument for...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Preparations are under way to lift the second of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers carefully roll into place a platform with a second radioisotope...
Preparations are underway to lift the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary...