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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Space Station Processing Facility close the access hatch to the Unity...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., Lockheed...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Cranes lower the canister containing the first Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM),...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle...
Michael Kinnan (left), with International Space Station (ISS) Launch Site Integration Office, and Todd McIntyre,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft arrives at their...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians inspect the solar panels for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In a clean room inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at NASA's...
During pre-pack and fit check in the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-92 Mission Specialist Michael E....
Workers at Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex-2 prepare to hoist NASA’s National Polar-orbiting...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., Lockheed...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Technicians and workers watch as the Rack Insertion Device (at left) removes the end...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA Kennedy Space Center, one of the Atlas V...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, technicians from Boeing and Alenia...
A crane is attached to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, members of the STS-122 crew look over cameras that...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Encapsulated in its payload fairing, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L,...
STS125-S-031 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Operations are underway to move the protective shipping container enclosing the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, engineers...
STS-83 Payload Specialist Roger K. Crouch is assisted into his launch/entry suit in the Operations and Checkout...
A team working on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft transitioned it from a vertical to a horizontal test configuration during...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T...