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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2, a lighting test is being...
NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes integration and testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in April 2024....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Blazing towers of flame propel space shuttle Endeavour into the dark sky past the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft is demated from its Pegasus launch...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Foreign object debris shields are installed and a borescope inspection is conducted on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– The Atlas V first stage arrives at the Vertical Integration Facility on Cape Canaveral Air...
At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (left), the first...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - As night settles over Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, xenon...
A sculpture created out of non-perishable canned and boxed foods is on display at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...
This ASTER sub-image covers a 12 x 12 km area in northern Shanxi Province, China, and was acquired January 9, 2001....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - As night settles over Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, xenon...
S88-52476 (8 Nov 1988) --- John E. Blaha, STS-29 pilot, gets in some training on the operation of one of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Trailing fire, Space Shuttle Atlantis roars toward the sky on mission STS-117. Below...
A three-year-old chimpanzee, named Ham, in the biopack couch for the MR-2 suborbital test flight. On January 31,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building, the 327-foot tall Ares I-X rocket...
S134-E-007575 (20 May 2011) --- NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff, STS-134 mission specialist, participates in the...
STS109-E-5638 (5 March 2002) --- With the Space Shuttle Columbia in limited natural light, two astronauts work on...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this last look at a field of bright white...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– On Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41, the Atlas V first stage is being...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2, a technician conducts a...
STS109-E-5628 (5 March 2002) --- With the Space Shuttle Columbia in limited natural light, two astronauts work on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - As nightfall comes to Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, xenon...
S134-E-007616 (20 May 2011) --- NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel, STS-134 mission specialist, participates in the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Foreign object debris shields are installed and a borescope inspection is conducted on...