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NASA test pilots perform the quiet supersonic dive maneuver off the coast of Galveston, Texas to create a quieter...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery rolls out of the Orbiter Processing Facility to...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. - Inside the NASA spacecraft processing hangar 1610 located on North Vandenberg...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- United Space Alliance (USA) technicians in Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 1...
Inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a quality...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Fire Station 1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Fire and Rescue personnel pause...
S73-32499 (July 1973) --- Dr. Ray Gause of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) places dinner, in the form...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a...
Administrator Bill Nelson and Snoopy view the eclipse together. NASA Glenn Research Center and the Great Lakes...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech Space Operations facilities near KSC, workers adjust wires on the Mercury...
STS-101 Commander James D. Halsell Jr. arrives at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility piloting a T-38 trainer jet...
STS-106 Commander Terrence W. Wilcutt gives thumbs up for launch today as he gets help suiting up. This is Wilcutt’s...
STS-106 Mission Specialist Edward T. Lu grins upon his arrival at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility. He and the rest...
Crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) is underneath the mobile launcher May 31, 2018, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
The roof of the Operations Support Building I is seen during an aerial survey of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
Technicians install and align the second set of solar arrays for NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Fire Station 1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Fire and Rescue personnel stand...
On Oct. 27, 2020, in front of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the Bell Huey 2...
The Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation’s TigerShark prepares for its final takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base for...
S69-18569 (February 1969) --- The insignia of the Apollo 9 space mission. The crew consist of astronauts James A....
STS071-S-072 (4 July 1995) --- This view of the space shuttle Atlantis still connected to Russia's Mir Space Station...
S119-E-007298 (23 March 2009) --- Astronauts Richard Arnold (left) and Joseph Acaba, both STS-119 mission...
iss052e004379 (6/18/2017) --- The Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) is a new type of solar panel that rolls open in space...
N-243 Flight and Guidance Centrifuge: Is used for spacecraft mission simulations and is adaptable to two...