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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In a clean room inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Lockheed Martin technicians inspect the second of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior...
For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., preparations...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, the Cupola module is being...
NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft encapsulated inside SpaceX’s Falcon 9 payload...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the White Room on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-125...
STS068-S-034 (30 September 1994) --- The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Launch Pad 39A in a halo of light....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-104 Mission Specialist James F. Reilly...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The space shuttle Discovery nears the Orbital Processing Facility, or OPF, where...
Technicians and engineers encapsulate NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., a lifting...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Preparations are under way to lift one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior...
John "JC" Carver, a payload integration engineer with NASA Kennedy Space Center's Test and Operations Support...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., a protective...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-98 Mission Commander Kenneth Cockrell waves to his family at the Shuttle Landing...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-118 Mission Specialist Dave Williams is...
STS125-S-044 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Ball...
Members of the media were given the opportunity to view and photograph the Solar Orbiter spacecraft up close inside...
Technicians and engineers encapsulate NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of...
Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida remove the vibration fixture on the Mass Spectrometer observing...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the crew quarters at the Operations and Checkout Building, the Mission STS-117 crew...
Members of the media were given the opportunity to view and photograph the Solar Orbiter spacecraft up close inside...