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Chosen to power the upper stages of the new Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV) and the Ares V cargo segment, the J-2X...
Charles Spern, at right, project manager on the Engineering Services Contract (ESC), and Glenn Washington, ESC...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The south wall of the Vehicle Assembly Building is bathed in light at night to allow...
K-9 Handler Officer Scott O’Rourke watches as K-9 LJ stops at the container with a suspicious substance during a...
The Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation’s TigerShark prepares for its final takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base for...
Event attendee views and photographs the eclipse safely. NASA Glenn Research Center and the Great Lakes Science...
STS006-22-026 (7 April 1983) --- Astronaut F. Story Musgrave, one of two STS-6 mission specialists who performed a...
APEX-04, or Advanced Plant EXperiments-04, is being prepared in a cold room in the Kennedy Space Center Processing...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-92 Mission Specialists Koichi Wakata of Japan (left) and William S. McArthur Jr....
The Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation’s TigerShark sits on the lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base after completing...
STS111-E-5034 (8 June 2002) --- Astronaut Franklin R. Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during extravehicular...
The Soyuz fairing is seen laying horizontal in front the of the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft as Expedition 43 Russian...
S71-39614 (July 1971) --- An artist's concept of the Apollo 15 Command and Service Modules (CSM), showing two...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., technicians remove the protective cover...
This close-up of astronaut and mission specialist, Kathryn Thornton, was captured under water in the Marshall Space...
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, a flight engineer during International Space Station Expedition 53/54, visits NASA's...
Loral workers at Astrotech, Titusville, Fla., stand back as they deploy the solar panels of the GOES-L weather...
Inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a quality...
S127-E-007154 (20 July 2009) --- This is one of a series of digital still images showing astronaut Dave Wolf...
STS109-E-5420 (7 March 2002) --- Flight Day 7 of the STS-109 mission finds astronaut Richard M. Linnehan, mission...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Students from California Polytechnic Institute, or CalPoly, and Merritt Island High School in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The KSC Visitor Complex welcomes more than 2.75 million visitors each year. Featured...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the frustum is ready...
The Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) mechanical team aligns the instrument on a transportation sled and slowly pushes...