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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – After a successful simulated launch countdown, STS-128 Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester...
In the Payload Hazardous Service Facility, workers lower the Stardust spacecraft onto a workstand. The spacecraft...
This photo shows the Handheld Diffusion Test Cell (HH-DTC) apparatus flown on the Space Shuttle. Similar cells...
iss057e131572 (Dec. 11, 2018) --- An Expedition 57 crew member inside the cupola photographed Russian spacewalker...
In the Payload Hazardous Service Facility, workers move the Stardust spacecraft on its workstand from the air lock...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-128...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The water close to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida captures the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Training Auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the members of the...
SL4-137-3578 (13 Dec. 1973) --- A near vertical view of the Melbourne, State of Victoria, Australia area as seen...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Pad 39B, the payload canister that delivered payloads launching aboard Space...
S120-E-010980 (28 Oct. 2007) --- Astronauts Daniel Tani (left), Expedition 16 flight engineer, and Scott Parazynski,...
S120-E-010977 (28 Oct. 2007) --- Astronauts Daniel Tani (left), Expedition 16 flight engineer, and Scott Parazynski,...
The NASA Bioreactor provides a low turbulence culture environment which promotes the formation of large,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Cast in shadow by the external fuel tank blocking the morning sun, space shuttle Discovery...
iss062e103684 (3/21/2020) --- A view of the rack containing CBEF-L (Cell Biology Experiment Facility-L) IU1 and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifts off with Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong,...
NASA Photographs and Captions courtesy of Joseph and Donna Roizen Telegen, Palo Alto, CA (from) Pioneer 10 and 11...
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins uses tongs to collect geologic samples while wearing the Joint AR (Joint Augmented...
Kennedy Space Center’s Jason Fischer holds a sample of water in the Florida spaceport’s Neil Armstrong Operations...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – After a successful simulated launch countdown, STS-128 Mission Specialists (from left) Danny...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis glides out of a morning sky as it prepares to land...
In view is the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) ground unit inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Operations and Checkout Building OandC at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
After snagging a new rock sample on August 9, 2018 (Sol 2137), NASA's Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on...