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NASA Armstrong’s ER-2 aircraft deploys for its ALOFT mission. The ER-2 will fly at high altitudes above the...
iss073e0422445 (July 29, 2025) --- The city lights of Sub-Saharan Africa streak below the International Space...
The Whitewater Fire in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness in Oregon was started by a lightning strike. As of Aug. 18,...
Gabriel Rodriguez-Mena, a United Launch Alliance systems test engineer, speaks to members of social media in the...
Jason Townsend, NASA's social media manager, speaks to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press...
In the Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium, George Morrow, deputy director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight...
In the Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium, Dan Lindsey, GOES-R senior scientific advisor for NOAA, speaks...
In the Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium, Kristin Calhoun, a research scientist with NOAA's National...
In the Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium, Louis Uccellini, director of the National Weather Service for...
In the Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium, Jim Roberts, a scientist with the Earth System Research...
Tim Walsh, GOES-R System Program director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, speaks...
Tim Walsh, GOES-R System Program director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, speaks...
Joe Pica, director of the Office of Observations for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's, or...
In the Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium, Steve Cole of NASA Communications speaks to members of the...
At KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility, a specially equipped Cessna Citation aircraft approaches the runway to calibrate...
A specially equipped Cessna Citation aircraft flies over KSC during a calibration test of field mills used to...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the launch pedestals remain in place on Launch...
At the end of its 6-hour, 4.2-mile circular trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building, the STS-95 Space Shuttle...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A crane lifts the radome to the top of a new Doppler weather radar tower being built in an...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A new Doppler weather radar dome is being built in an area near S.R. 520 in Orange County,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The radome is secured atop a new Doppler weather radar tower being built in an area near S.R....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The radome is secured atop a new Doppler weather radar tower being built in an area near S.R....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, cleanup of Launch Pad 39B is in progress. Sand,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Security is on hand as Space Shuttle Atlantis arrives on Launch Pad 39B via the...