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Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics Flight 1....
Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics Flight 1....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the fifth and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians from...
The view, from the spacecraft's wide-angle camera (WAC), includes an inset view, near center left, from the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The container holding the radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) is moved inside...
Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics Flight 1....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force...
Captured March 12, 2010 The SOHO spacecraft captured a very bright, sungrazing comet as it rocketed towards the Sun...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians from...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Lockheed Martin Atlas V Centaur stage arrives at the mobile service tower on Launch...
This pair of approximately true color images of Pluto and its big moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons...
This collage and animation represent NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 7335 1989 JA on May 26, 2022,...
Imagine a future spacecraft following New Horizons' trailblazing path to Pluto, but instead of flying past its...
This enhanced-color close-up of a rock target called "Cine" was captured by the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's...
The tortured southern polar terrain of Enceladus appears strewn with great boulders of ice in this fantastic view,...
Saturn and its rings completely fill the field of view of Cassini's narrow angle camera in this natural color image...
This sequence of color-enhanced images shows how quickly the viewing geometry changes for NASA's Juno spacecraft as...
On April 3, 2017, as Jupiter made its nearest approach to Earth in a year, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope viewed the...
This graphic shows a new radiation zone surrounding Jupiter, located just above the atmosphere near the equator,...
This giant mosaic reveals Saturn's icy moon Rhea in her full, crater-scarred glory. This view consists of 21...
This look at the complex surface of Jupiter's moon Ganymede came from NASA's Juno mission during a close pass by the...
The first detection of Pluto in X-rays has been made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in conjunction with...
Project LOLA. Test subject sitting at the controls: Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator...