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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Framed by Florida greenery, Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off Launch Pad 39B at 10:39...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Clouds of smoke and steam fill Launch Pad 39B as Space Shuttle Discovery roars into the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Clouds of smoke and steam roll away from Launch Pad 39B as Space Shuttle Discovery...
An active region at the edge of the Sun blew out an X4 flare (one of the largest of the solar cycle) and a coronal...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Water near Launch Pad 39B is washed in colors from the launch of Space Shuttle...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Framed by Florida greenery, Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off Launch Pad 39B at 10:39...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A busload of children eagerly wait on the roadside at NASA Kennedy Space Center for the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Launch Control Center at NASA Kennedy Space Center, First Lady Laura Bush talks...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Arriving at the Skid Strip on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is First Lady Laura...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Huge mounds of smoke and steam flow upward as Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Spectators fill the grounds near NASA Kennedy Space Center to witness the launch of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the stands at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Banana Creek viewing site, First Lady...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Seen after rollback of the Rotating Service Structure, and framed by marsh greenery, a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Clouds of smoke and steam billow around Space Shuttle Discovery as it leaps off Launch...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The silvery surface of this pond near NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39B...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Space Shuttle Discovery in full launch configuration is revealed after the Rotating...
NASA image captured April 1, 2011 Twice a year, SDO enters an eclipse season where the spacecraft slips behind Earth...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Launch Control Center at NASA Kennedy Space Center, NASA Administrator Mike...
The winter of 2013 was among the driest on record for California, setting the stage for an active fire season. By...
This artist's concept puts solar system distances in perspective. The scale bar is in astronomical units, with each...
The winter of 2013 was among the driest on record for California, setting the stage for an active fire season. By...
NICER Optics Lead Takashi Okajima installs one of NICER’s 56 X-ray “concentrators,” each consisting of 24 concentric...
To show the kind of imagery that data from the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite mission will...
This image shows the southern high-latitudes region of Mars from March 19 through April 14, 2009, a period when...