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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Lockheed Martin technicians oversee the placement of the protective canister housing NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., Lockheed...
STS125-S-039 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
The science deck of NASA's InSight lander is being turned over in this April 29, 2015, photo from InSight assembly...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Lockheed Martin technicians prepare to move the second of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and...
Back dropped against a blue and white Earth, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis was photographed by an Expedition 5...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-118 crew strides out of the Operations and Checkout Building eager to get to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The space shuttle Discovery nears the Orbital Processing Facility, or OPF, where...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – In the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A United Launch Alliance Delta II stands tall on Space Launch Complex-2 at...
STS125-S-027 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the White Room on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-125...
STS-95 Mission Specialist Pedro Duque of Spain, with the European Space Agency, is helped with his flight suit by...
STS125-S-007 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The prototype lander for NASA’s Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Space Station Processing Facility hold part of the equipment to close...
Inside the high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – In the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-116 crew walks out of the Operations and Checkout Building on their way to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - An overhead crane moves the MESSENGER spacecraft from its work stand under the watchful...
For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA's...
Launched on June 20, 1996, the STS-78 mission’s primary payload was the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS), which...
Technicians integrate NASA’s four PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites to the evolved...