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STS-34 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, lifts off from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39B at...
The exhaust plume from space shuttle Atlantis is seen through the window of a Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) as it...
View of the launch of the shuttle Discovery and the 41-D mission. The orbiter and its plume of smoke are...
The exhaust plume from space shuttle Atlantis is seen to the left of the Vehicle Assembly Building, Friday, July 8,...
S86-38989 (28 Jan. 1986) --- Main engine exhaust, solid rocket booster plume and an expanding ball of gas from the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -Space Shuttle Atlantis soars above its trailing plume of smoke on mission STS-110....
Launching of the LJ6 Little Joe on Oct. 4, 1959 took place at Wallops Island, Va. This was the first attempt to...
This view shows the area around Northeastern Sumatra, Indonesia (1.0N, 104.0E). The city of Singapore and the...
Air-to-air view, taken from the weather-monitoring Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA), shows STS-42 Discovery, Orbiter...
iss072e757530 (March 6, 2025) --- The last rays of an orbital sunset outline Earth’s horizon as a thin orange layer...
This artist's rendering showing a cutaway view into the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus. NASA's Cassini...
Austin Langton, a researcher at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, creates a fine spray of the regolith...
Composite image of Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) data (contour) with a cut-out images of the T-38’s during a...
iss063e054976 (July 23, 2020) --- The launch plume of Russia's Progress 76 (76P) resupply ship, after it blasted off...
This visualization, made from a simulation of the Pad Abort 1 flight test of Orion's Launch Abort System, helps...
ISS028-E-018657 (23 July 2011) --? One of the Expedition 28 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
Construction is complete on the main flame deflector in the flame trench at Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy...
Two large-engine tests were conducted simultaneously for the first time at Stennis Space Center on Aug. 16. A plume...
SL2-16-174 (22 June 1973) --- Norfolk and the lower Chesapeake Bay, VA (37.5N, 75.5W) at the interface of the...
SL2-05-454 (22 June 1973) --- This view shows the west end of Lake Superior and Duluth, MN (47.0N, 91.0W). Portions...
STS068-218-007 (30 September-11 October 1994) --- (Kliuchevskoi Volcano) The crewmembers used a 70mm camera to...
Composite image of Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) data (contour) with a cut-out images of the T-38’s during a...
Construction is complete on the main flame deflector in the flame trench at Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy...
Beverly Kemmerer and Austin Adkins perform testing with a Millimeter Wave Doppler Radar at NASA’s Kennedy Space...