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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The protective canister housing NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory lunar...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) employees Norm Schwartz, at left, and George Nakatsukasa transfer one of three...
STS125-S-053 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The U.S. Lab, a component of the International Space Station, rests in a vertical...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In a test facility behind the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
S100-E-5002 (20 April 2001) --- One of the crew members of STS-100 aimed a digital still camera through Endeavour's...
Seen here is a 360 degree view of the inside of Orion’s crew module, showcasing some of the payloads flying on the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The STS-105 crew exits the Operations and Checkout Building, followed by the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The prototype rover Artemis Jr. for NASA’s Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Lockheed Martin technicians lower the second of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior...
S77-E-5027 (20 May 1996)--- Following its deployment from the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Spartan 207/Inflatable...
STS125-S-034 (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, NASA’s...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians prepare to conduct an...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, STS-122 Pilot Alan Poindexter checks out the...
STS125-S-029 (11 May 2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At ground-breaking ceremonies for SpaceX's new Falcon 9 rocket launch facilities at...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., Lockheed...
NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft encapsulated inside SpaceX’s Falcon 9 payload...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Greg C. Shavers, Lander Technology director at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama,...
Inside the high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a crane...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft are lifted to the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Payload technicians and Jet Propulsion Laboratory personnel carefully remove the shipping...
In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Ball...