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The Close Orbiting Propellant Plume Elemental Recognition (COPPER) was developed by students from St. Louis...
Construction is complete on the main flame deflector in the flame trench at Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy...
ISS006-E-19300 (18 January 2003) --- Bushfires in southeastern Australia were captured with a digital still camera...
The predominant themes are: a new beginning (sunrise), a safe mission (stylized launch and plume), the building upon...
SL2-05-389 (22 June 1973) --- This scene displays the southeastern part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and adjacent...
This high oblique view shows the majority of the island of Madagascar (19.0S, 47.5E). This Texas sized island is now...
STS-26 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, rises into a cloudy sky and heads for Earth orbit atop the external tank...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an exhaust plume forms under the mobile launcher...
ISS036-E-038114 (29 Aug. 2013) --- One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International...
ISS036-E-038117 (29 Aug. 2013) --- One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International...
View of the launch of the shuttle Discovery and the 41-D mission. The orbiter and its plume of smoke are...
Two large-engine tests were conducted simultaneously for the first time at Stennis Space Center on Aug. 16. A plume...
Fires began near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine April 4, 2020. By April 14, the fires were nearly...
P-21735 BW This Jupiter image taken by Voyager 2 shows an area from 10° N. Lat. to 34° S. Lat. in a region west of...
From the roof of the Launch Control Center, U.S. President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton track...
iss068e040553 (Jan. 15, 2023) --- An external high-definition camera on the International Space Station captured the...
The exhaust plume from space shuttle Atlantis is seen through the window of a Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) as it...
Beverly Kemmerer and Austin Adkins, right, and Austin Langton, perform testing with a Millimeter Wave Doppler Radar...
iss063e054986 (July 23, 2020) --- The launch plume of Russia's Progress 76 (76P) resupply ship, after it blasted off...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an exhaust plume forms under the mobile launcher...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an exhaust plume forms under the mobile launcher...
View of the launch of the shuttle Discovery and the 41-D mission. The orbiter and its plume of smoke are...
The exhaust plume from space shuttle Atlantis is seen from Firing Room Four of the Launch Control Center (LCC) as...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Purple-plumed grass waves gently in the breeze. The grass abounds within and around...