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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, a worker checks over the GALEX satellite on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, workers check the deployment of the cover of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- With xenon lights flooding Runway 15, a drag chute slows space shuttle Endeavour as it...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Orbital Sciences Corp.'s L-1011 aircraft arrives at the Skid Strip, Cape Canaveral...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Multi-Payload Processing Facility check the solar array panels on the...
Exploration Ground Systems technicians inspect the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis I mission, as it is lifted on...
Employees gather around a demonstration by Florida Power and Light during Super Safety and Health Day at KSC. Safety...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Pegasus launch vehicle enters the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at KSC....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, workers check the deployment of the cover of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Photographed at Launch Complex 17, Cape Canaveral Station, just after midnight on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- At Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a second solid rocket booster joins the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Viewed through the leaves of a tree in the foreground, the fiery liftoff of Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --Space Shuttle Discovery soars away from the fiery clouds on Launch Pad 39B on mission...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, workers check the deployment of the cover of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in Hangar M on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida get ready to remove...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Flooding the night sky with light, Space Shuttle Discovery streaks through the clouds...
Employees gather around a demonstration by Florida Power and Light during Super Safety and Health Day at KSC. Safety...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The solar array panels on the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite are deployed...
Always dramatic and fascinating, black holes are in the news again with three amazing discoveries. NASA researchers...
Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using three of NASA's...
Hidden behind a shroud of dust in the constellation Cygnus is a stellar nursery called DR21, which is giving birth...
This image shows data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, from the IRAC instrument, with colors corresponding to...
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has obtained its first observations of the extended...
A new era in stellar astronomy began five years ago when the Chandra X-ray Observatory first opened its sunshade to...