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John "JC" Carver, a payload integration engineer with NASA Kennedy Space Center's Test and Operations Support...
STS125-S-005 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
Technicians and engineers encapsulate NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of...
The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is responsible for designing and building the life support systems that will...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – STS-125 Pilot Gregory C. Johnson fits his helmet and gloves on his launch-and-entry suit...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, the Cupola module is being...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At ground-breaking ceremonies for SpaceX's new Falcon 9 rocket launch facilities at...
Ohio Senator John Glenn, at left, enjoys a tour of the Engineering Development Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center....
Technicians integrate NASA’s four PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites to the evolved...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
STS111-E-5116 (9 June 2002) --- One of the STS-111 crewmembers took this interior view of the Leonardo Multi-Purpose...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, STS-122 crew members stand next to the space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Engineers complete the assembly of the prototype lander for NASA’s Regolith and Environment...
John "JC" Carver, a payload integration engineer with NASA Kennedy Space Center's Test and Operations Support...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, the Cupola module is being...
This parachute testing for NASA's InSight mission to Mars was conducted inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, engineers...
Technicians install multi-layer insulation on the Sentinel-6B spacecraft on a work stand inside the Astrotech Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-118 Mission Specialist Alvin Drew...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., Lockheed...
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Mike Bolger, program manager of Ground Systems Development and Operations...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Resting inside Atlantis’s payload bay are the Joint Airlock Module (bottom) and pallet...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., NASA's...
This radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), at center, is ready for electrical verification testing now that...