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STS081-E-5008 (12 Jan. 1997) --- Astronaut Brent W. Jett, Jr., pilot, looks over a check list on the Space Shuttle...
S82-E-5002 (12 Feb. 1997) --- On the Space Shuttle Discovery's middeck, STS-82 payload commander Mark C. Lee looks...
Leland Melvin, NASA Associate Administrator for Education and two-time space shuttle astronaut, speaks to students...
STS081-E-05432 (15 Jan. 1997) --- Left to right, astronaut John E. Blaha, his cosmonaut guest researcher replacement...
NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold presents a montage from his mission to Alan Peel, program director, and Erin Thompson,...
NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold presents Robert Gabrys, director of the Office fo STEM Engagement at NASA’s Goddard...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, an External Tank (ET) digital still camera is...
S88-E-5019 (12-05-98) --- This medium closeup electronic still camera (ESC) photograph shows Endeavour's docking...
Queen Elizabeth II, lower right, talks to Expedition 15 crew members from left, NASA astronaut, Sunita Williams,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, workers prepare a...
International Space Station Expedition 33 flight engineer Kevin Ford (on screen) answers questions from students...
NASA astronaut and Maryland native Ricky Arnold presents a montage of images from his mission and a Baltimore...
S125-E-005173 (12 May 2009) --- Among the first group of still images downlinked by the STS-125 crewmembers onboard...
As a liquefied metal solidifies, particles dispersed in the liquid are either pushed ahead of or engulfed by the...
International Space Station Expedition 33 Commander Sunita Williams (on screen) answers questions from students...
ISS041-E-011535 (16 Sept. 2014) --- Though having been upgraded from a tropical storm to a Category 2 hurricane, the...
NASA astronaut and Maryland native Ricky Arnold talks with Baltimore Orioles manager Brandon Hyde after presenting a...
STS081-E-5001 (12 Jan. 1997) --- Aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on its first day in orbit for the mission,...
S125-E-005175 (12 May 2009) --- Among the first group of still images downlinked by the STS-125 crewmembers onboard...
ISS007-E-09408 (5 July 2003) --- This nadir view of London, England, was downlinked from the International Space...
ISS039-E-000707 (12 March 2014) --- This nadir picture of Galveston Island and its coastline on the Gulf of Mexico...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, workers prepare a...
Onboard Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-94) Mission Specialist Donald A. Thomas observes an experiment in the glovebox...
STS081-E-5424 (15 Jan. 1997) --- Left to right, cosmonaut Valeri G. Korzun, Mir-22 mission commander; and astronauts...