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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- On Space Launch Complex 576-E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Pad 39A at 2:48 a.m. EDT, the Rotating Service Structure (left) begins...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A solid rocket booster segment is lifted off a truck bed at the railroad yard at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane lifts a solid rocket booster segment off a truck bed at the railroad...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Pad 39B, workers check one of the two trucks that move the rotating service...
Shawn Quinn, associate program manager for the Ground Systems Development and Operations Program (GSDO), signs the...
The Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis STS-110, embarking on its 25th flight, lifts off from launch pad 39B at Kennedy...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Viewed from an upper level of the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39B, Space...
ISS017-E-018075 (1 Oct. 2008) --- The Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado is featured in this image photographed by an...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane moves a solid rocket booster segment toward a railroad car at the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane lifts a solid rocket booster segment off a truck bed at the railroad...
Researchers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory purposely...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- After rollback of the rotating service structure, or RSS, on Launch Pad 39A, Space...
High up in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane lowers the final...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Rollback of the rotating service structure, or RSS, begins on Launch Pad 39A,...
Four hundred bridges cross the labyrinth of canals that form the 120 islands of Venice, situated in a saltwater...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In preparation for the July 1 launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-121, the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a cover is lowered over the solid...
A caravan of large steel castings arrived at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After rollback of the rotating service structure (RSS) on Launch Pad 39B, Space Shuttle...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A solid rocket booster segment is lifted off a truck bed at the railroad yard at...
ISS040-E-027042 (30 June 2014) --- Kulunda Steppe, Siberia in central Russia is featured in this image photographed...
Astronaut Michael J. Bloomfield, STS-110 mission commander, looks through the Earth observation window in the...
How do we do Solid Rocket Booster retrieval? After the Solid Rocket Boosters have splashed down out in the ocean...