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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., Lockheed...
In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-99 Pilot Dominic Gorie smiles during suitup in final launch...
Preparations are underway to weigh NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, spacecraft in the clean room of the...
STS125-S-052 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
Engineers install multilayer insulation (MLI) on the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) instrument...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Tom Engler, deputy director of Center Planning and Development at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from Launch Pad 39B at 2:19 p.m. EDT Apr. 17 to...
Technicians install multi-layer insulation on the Sentinel-6B spacecraft on a work stand inside the Astrotech Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Space Station Processing Facility work in the doorway of the Unity...
Technicians examine the first of two fully extended five-panel solar arrays built for NASA’s Europa Clipper...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg...
From left to right, Tiffany Nail, KSC Protocol Officer; Nicole Stott, NASA Astronaut (former); Dottie Duke, wife of...
During pre-pack and fit check in the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-92 Mission Specialist William S. McArthur...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-118 Mission Specialist Dave Williams is...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building (O&C), the doors of the payload canister open...
A scale model of NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft is on display during a payload briefing...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -In Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, STS-120 Commander Pamela A. Melroy (center left)...
STS125-S-030 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
STS-92 Commander Brian Duffy pauses in the door of the Astrovan before exiting at the Operations and Checkout...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Resting inside Atlantis’s payload bay are the Joint Airlock Module (bottom) and pallet...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The payload fairing that will protect NASA's National Polar-orbiting...