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Astronaut Rex Walheim uses the Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS) to perform early evaluations of the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle main engine No. 2, which was removed from shuttle Discovery, is moved to a work...
ISS009-E-23442 (18 September 2004) --- Astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke, Expedition 9 NASA ISS science officer and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A Huey helicopter from the Aircraft Operations branch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
iss057e055482 (10/22/2018) --- View of the Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) payload, attached to...
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 37, the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with...
ISS020-E-021467 (17 July 2009) --- This view of the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Endeavour was provided by an...
The ESA service module primary structure, which will propel Orion on the Artemis III flight carrying astronauts to...
STS113-360-023 (26 November 2002) --- Astronaut John B. Herrington, STS-113 mission specialist, attired in his...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Payload Changeout Room at the pad, STS-110 crew members perform a final...
ISS036-E-020935 (17 July 2013) --- NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Expedition 36 flight engineer, works to setup the...
A successful test is completed of the European Structural Test Article (E-STA) partial tank vibration test (Y- axis...
Encapsulated in its payload fairing, NASA's Parker Solar Probe is mated to a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy...
NASA Landing and Recovery Director Melissa Jones points out recovery operations to Capt. Gervy Alota, commanding...
A NASA crew member practices simulated lunar surface operations at NASA’s Johnson Space Center during an elevated...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle main engine No. 2, which was removed from shuttle Discovery, is transported...
S100-E-5264 (22 April 2001) --- A smiling astronaut Scott E. Parazynski, STS-100 mission specialist, peers into the...
ISS013-E-29011 (1 June 2006) --- A close-up view shows the face of cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, Expedition 13...
ISS013-E-28984 (1 June 2006) --- Cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, Expedition 13 commander representing Russia's...
A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand during the late 1950s. Between 1953...
S120-E-007581 (30 Oct. 2007) --- Astronaut Doug Wheelock, STS-120 mission specialist, participates in the third...
S69-19793 (February 1969) --- Composite of six artist's concepts illustrating key events, tasks and activities on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - An employee at the Space Station Processing Facility monitors engineering certification...
ISS006-E-07134 (9 December 2002) --- Astronaut Donald R. Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS science officer, works to...