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jsc2024e016244 (11/27/2023) --- The final Multi-Resolution Scanning payload docked with an Astrobee robot at NASA’s...
Team members with United Launch Alliance (ULA) prepare the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite...
S85-26571 (Feb 1985) --- Wearing a special collar, Millie Hughes-Fulford, payload specialist, practices medical test...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Integrated Truss Structure S0 arrives at the payload canister in the Operations...
Enclosed in its payload fairing, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) departs from the...
Enclosed in its payload fairing, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) departs from the...
Enclosed in its payload fairing, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) departs from the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) high bay 4, installation of a Payload Bay Door...
The payload bay doors of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia were opened for the first time today using the orbiter's...
Enclosed in its payload fairing, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) departs from the...
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative sent 10 science and technology payloads to the Moon with Firefly...
The two halves of the payload fairing are fully closed around the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite...
Research technician Lisa Ruffa works with a wheat sample that is part of ground testing for the first International...
S88-52469 (8 Nov 1988) --- Astronauts John E. Blaha, left, and Robert C. Springer, STS-29 pilot and mission...
The payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S), secured on a...
Teams with Astrobotic install the NASA meatball decal on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander on Tuesday, Nov. 14,...
The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is moved to be installed into a payload canister in...
Research scientist Gary Stutte displays a wheat sample that is part of ground testing for the first International...
Enclosed in its payload fairing, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is moved out of...
The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is moved to be installed into a payload canister in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, an overhead crane carries the Integrated...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) high bay 4, installation of a Payload Bay Door...
Teams with Astrobotic install the NASA meatball decal on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander on Tuesday, Nov. 14,...
S88-52473 (8 Nov 1988) --- The commander and pilot of NASA's STS-29 mission get some training on the operation of...