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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The solar array on the prototype rover Artemis Jr. for NASA’s Regolith and Environment...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Space Station Processing Facility make final preparations for closing...
In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA’s...
Tucked inside a protective payload transportation canister, NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental...
STS125-S-038 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft encapsulated inside SpaceX’s Falcon 9 payload...
STS125-S-047 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
STS-92 Pilot Pamela Ann Melroy exits the Astrovan on its return to the Operations and Checkout Building. Behind her...
As part of the final STS-82 prelaunch activities, the seven crew members gather for lunch and a photo opportunity in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA's...
The STS-92 crew exits the Operations and Checkout Building on their way to the Astrovan and Launch Pad 39A for a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- With the nose of the Airbus Beluga transporter open, KSC workers prepare to unload the...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers prepare the installation cart (atop the platform) for removal of a...
Resting in a rotation and handling fixture, the U.S. Lab, a component of the International Space Station, is lifted...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the White Room on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-125 Pilot...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, members of the STS-110 crew take a break from...
During suitup in the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-92 Mission Specialist Michael E. Lopez-Alegria smiles and...
Engineers install multilayer insulation (MLI) on the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) instrument...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Complex 39, members of the STS-117 crew are instructed in the operation of...
Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida remove the vibration fixture on the Mass Spectrometer observing...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The prototype lander for NASA’s Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar...
Technicians install multi-layer insulation on the Sentinel-6B spacecraft on a work stand inside the Astrotech Space...
Luca Baldini, Italian co-principal investigator, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, participates in a payload...
The shipping container holding NASA's Lucy spacecraft is unloaded from an Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft on the...