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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers...
Inside the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians prepare...
Aligned straight on with the red approach lights, the Orbiter Columbia (STS-52) glides toward Runway 33 of Kennedy...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, STS-114 Commander Eileen Collins and Pilot James...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers check out the U.S. Lab Destiny after it has been installed in Atlantis’...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Discovery’s airlock is lowered into the orbiter’s payload bay for installation. The...
Workers conduct a light test on the solar arrays on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-133 Pilot...
During a Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT), STS-97 Commander Brent Jett (left) and Pilot Michael Bloomfied...
Kathy Lueders, second from right, associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission...
NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, has been uncovered and is ready for processing in the...
STS042-05-006 (22-30 Jan 1992) --- Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, payload commander, performs the Fluids Experiment...
Workers remove the plastic cover from NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, in the high bay...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a battery...
Workers deploy the solar arrays on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, in the Building 1...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, STS-125 Mission Specialist...
During a Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT), STS-97 Commander Brent Jett (left) and Pilot Michael Bloomfied...
Airbus workers unpack the Bartolomeo platform in the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at NASA’s Kennedy...
STS-91 Commander Charles Precourt peers through an airlock like the one that will be aboard the orbiter Discovery...
ISS028-E-015554 (10 July 2011) --- A nadir view of the space shuttle Atlantis and its payload was provided by one of...
S128-E-007041 (1 Sept. 2009) --- Astronaut Nicole Stott, Expedition 20 flight engineer, participates in the STS-128...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle...
In the Space Station Processing Facility, holding the nameplate for the Unity connecting module are (left) Joan...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Members of the media get an up close view of space shuttle Atlantis in her new home at the...