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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– The Atlas V first stage arrives at the Vertical Integration Facility on Cape Canaveral Air...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Light-filled clouds of smoke and steam roll across Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2, a lighting test is being...
S130-E-009694 (17 Feb. 2010) --- This image is among the initial series taken through a first of its kind “bay...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft is lifted away from the Pegasus XL...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Foreign object debris shields are installed and a borescope inspection is conducted on...
A sculpture created out of non-perishable canned and boxed foods is on display at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the mornings first light, the nose of NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, with the...
The second stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket is lifted up the launch tower at Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air...
S134-E-007571 (20 May 2011) --- NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel, STS-134 mission specialist, participates in the...
ISS027-E-034419 (20 May 2011) --- NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel (bottom right) and Greg Chamitoff (top left), both...
For the first time in a long time the Sun has gone an entire month without any sunspots (Feb. 1-18, 2019). To put...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft is moved toward a work stand (in the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - Workers in the Multi-Payload Processing Facility check the Galaxy Evolution Explorer...
Workers oversee the mating of the second stage with the first stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket, which will launch...
STS109-E-5630 (5 March 2002) --- With the Space Shuttle Columbia in limited natural light, two astronauts work on...
S134-E-009307 (20 May 2011) --- NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff, STS-134 mission specialist, prepares to enter the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis’s solid rocket boosters trail brilliant flames that light up...
S83-39512 (30 Aug. 1983) --- NASA's eighth space shuttle launch lights up the Florida sky at 2:32 a.m. (EDT), Aug....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space shuttle Endeavour races into the night sky trailing columns of fire that...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Flames from the solid rocket boosters on space shuttle Endeavour light up Launch Pad...
S134-E-009267 (20 May 2011) --- NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel (right) and Greg Chamitoff, both STS-134 mission...
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, assembly has begun on the first of 24 light emitting diode LED panels for...
The Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this set of images before and after it drilled...