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Tucked inside a protective payload transportation canister, NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., a crane...
Student teams behind protective walls operate remote controls to maneuver their robots around the playing field...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Payload technicians and Jet Propulsion Laboratory personnel set aside a shipping cover after...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Lockheed Martin technicians examine NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory...
Preparations are underway to lift the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary...
John "JC" Carver, a payload integration engineer with NASA Kennedy Space Center's Test and Operations Support...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- NASA Administrator Mike Griffin (front) and Associate Administrator for NASA Space...
For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating...
At Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), the Atlas IIA rocket is halfway to a vertical position...
STS118-S-008 (8 Aug. 2007) --- After suiting up, the STS-118 crewmembers exit the Operations and Checkout Building...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Russian-built Mini Research Module1, or MRM1,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, technicians from Boeing and Alenia...
John "JC" Carver, a payload integration engineer with NASA Kennedy Space Center's Test and Operations Support...
John "JC" Carver, a payload integration engineer with NASA Kennedy Space Center's Test and Operations Support...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The canister containing the first Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM), the Leonardo,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a worker...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The space shuttle Discovery nears the Orbital Processing Facility, or OPF, where...
Dr. Kristen John, principal investigator for Hermes at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, talks to NASA Social...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building (O&C), the U.S. Lab, a component of the...
S77-E-5033 (20 May 1996) --- Following its deployment from the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Spartan 207/Inflatable...
Jeffrey Richards, a payload research and science coordinator on the LASSO contract at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...
A United Launch Alliance technician monitors the progress as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s...
Managers from NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and SLS (Space Launch System) Programs hold a baton signifying...