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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The mylar covering is removed from NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
During pre-pack and fit check in the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-92 Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata of...
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy visits Kennedy Space Center in Florida and views the agency’s Psyche spacecraft...
NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft encapsulated inside SpaceX’s Falcon 9 payload...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – With a full moon silhouetted in the night sky, the rotating service structure is ready to be...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., Lockheed...
A team working on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft transitioned it from a vertical to horizontal test configuration during...
STS125-S-042 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy visits Kennedy Space Center in Florida and receives a briefing by team members...
STS077-150-010 (20 May 1996) --- Soon after leaving the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Spartan...
Technicians and engineers encapsulate NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of...
MacKenzie Ferrie, IXPE program manager, Ball Aerospace, participates in a payload briefing for NASA’s Imaging X-ray...
In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-99 Commander Kevin Kregel waves as he suits up during final launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., Lockheed...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., NASA's Solar Dynamics...
Workers at Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex-2 prepare to hoist NASA’s National Polar-orbiting...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The U.S. Laboratory Destiny, a component of the International Space Station, is lifted...
Technicians and engineers encapsulate NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Greeted by cheers from wellwishers at KSC and eager for their venture into space on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, the U.S. Laboratory Destiny, a component of...
In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Ball...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In a test facility behind the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...