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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A crane is lowered toward the lower stack, mini-stack number 1, two of the observatories for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Astronaut Yvonne Cagle (left); Jennifer Harris (center); the Mars 2001 Operations...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., preparations...
A United States Air Force C-17 cargo plane, stationed out of Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina, holding...
Technicians examine the first of two fully extended five-panel solar arrays built for NASA’s Europa Clipper...
STS125-S-008 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
Inside the high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a...
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, are greeted by NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin upon...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis' payload...
A crane is lowered toward the lower stack, mini-stack number 1, two of the observatories for NASA's Magnetospheric...
Engineers prepare the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) instrument for the multilayer insulation...
During pre-pack and fit check in the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-92 Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata of...
Inside the high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., a lifting...
STS125-S-051 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-96 Mission Specialist Valery Ivanovich Tokarev, who represents the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Lockheed Martin technicians move one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The prototype rover Artemis Jr. for NASA’s Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and...
For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle...
STS125-S-035 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
Jeffrey Richards, a payload research and science coordinator on the LASSO contract at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...
STS-87 Payload Specialist Leonid Kadenyuk of the National Space Agency of Ukraine gives a ‘thumbs up’ in his launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...