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In the Space Station Processing Facility, a worker checks placement of the nameplate to be attached to the Unity...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Pad 39B, the payload bay doors on Space Shuttle Discovery are being closed...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, shuttle...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Columbia's payload bay doors are ready to be closed for mission STS-107. Installed...
STS055-219-024 (26 April-6 May 1993) --- Ulrich Walter, STS-55 payload specialist representing the German Aerospace...
S129-E-006438 (18 Nov. 2009) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space, the International Space Station and Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the clamshell...
S104-E-5064 (15 July 2001) --- Michael L. Gernhardt (front), mission specialist and EV1, and James F. Reilly,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - Workers begin preparations for testing part of the payload (behind them) for the Hubble...
STS093-705-020 (23 July 1999)--- This 70mm frame shows the Chandra X-Ray observatory just before it was tilted...
S82-E-5586 (16 Feb. 1997) --- Standing at the flight support system in the Space Shuttle Discovery's aft cargo bay,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The suspension of external fuel tank ET-131 over the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly...
A short during liftoff of Space Shuttle Columbia in July was traced to a wire in the payload bay with damaged...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside Orbiter Processing Facility 2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, United Space Alliance...
S127-E-012774 (30 July 2009) --- Backdropped by Earth?s horizon and the blackness of space, a Dual RF Astrodynamic...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, workers check the fittings around space...
ISS022-E-062766 (11 Feb. 2010) --- In the grasp of the station?s Canadarm2, the Tranquility module is transferred...
S82-25905 (21 Jan. 1982) --- Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton uses an electronic pointer to localize an area on a...
ISS002-E-5887 (21 April 2001) --- A view of the Space Shuttle Endeavour preparing to dock with the International...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech, the shipping container holding the Dawn spacecraft is removed from the...
S91-50776 (18 Oct 1991) --- The Space Shuttle Atlantis is moved from the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) Bay 2 to...
ISS027-E-032252 (18 May 2011) --- This view of the nose, crew cabin and forward payload bay of the space shuttle...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, external fuel tank ET-131 moves into the transfer...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A worker on Launch Pad 39A watches over the closing of Space Shuttle Endeavour's...