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Descrip: A NASA astronaut is one of the space station’s newest residents, planning for the upcoming total solar...
A new long-duration spaceflight record, our SpaceX Crew-6 mission is back home, and our asteroid sample return...
A top-down view of one of the containers holding rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu, with hardware scale marked in...
A top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed,...
A view of the TAGSAM (Touch and Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism) from above, showing the Mylar flap with a pile of...
A view of eight sample trays containing the final material from asteroid Bennu. The dust and rocks were poured into...
On December 31, 2018, OSIRIS-REx completed its Preliminary Survey of asteroid Bennu and entered into orbit. Bennu...
In late October, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will navigate to asteroid Bennu’s surface for its first sample collection...
The first stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket is lifted to its vertical position on the tower at Launch Complex 17,...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility watch as the Stardust spacecraft is rotated and lowered before...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, both solar arrays on the Genesis...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers look over the solar panels on the Stardust spacecraft that are...
Workers at Cape Canaveral Air Station help guide the first stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket to its vertical...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers oversee closeout operations of the Stardust Sample Return...
A solid rocket booster is raised to a vertical position before lifting it up the mobile launch tower at Pad 17A,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Technicians at the Space Station Processing Facility perform a fit check of the Thermal...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility deploy a solar panel on the Stardust spacecraft before...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the fully extended solar panels of the Stardustspacecraft undergo...
The first stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket is raised off a truck bed before being lifted into place on the tower at...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, a worker looks over the solar panels of the Stardust spacecraft before...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, an overhead crane moves a Thermal Protection...
At Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers keep watch on the placement of the fourth and final solid rocket...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Technicians at the Space Station Processing Facility perform a fit check of the Thermal...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers deploy an aerogel grid from the Stardust Sample Return Capsule...