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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – On board the USS Salvor, a safeguard-class rescue and salvage ship, NASA and U.S. Navy personnel...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – On the third day of Underway Recovery Test 4A, the Orion boilerplate test vehicle floats in the...
The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Orion boilerplate test vehicle floats in the Pacific Ocean during Underway Recovery Test 4A....
Aboard the recovery ship, USS Hornet, Apollo 12 astronauts wave to the crowd as they enter the mobile quarantine...
STS125-S-050 (11 May 2009) --- The launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis from launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The NOAA-N Prime spacecraft arrives at NASA's Hazardous Processing Facility on...
STS064-S-001 (July 1994) --- The patch depicts the space shuttle Discovery in a payload-bay-to-Earth attitude with...
HWHAP Air Force Rescue and Recovery Leah Cheshier Houston We Have a Podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the...
From December 10, 1966, until his retirement on February 27, 1976, Stanley P. Butchart served as Chief (later,...
Edwin W. Lewis Jr. is a research pilot in the Airborne Science program, Flight Crew Branch, Dryden Flight Research...
U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon (center), is saluted by the honor guard of flight deck crewmen when he arrives...
NOAA-N: Webcast Introduction Tiffany Nail: Hello, everyone, and thanks for joining NASA Direct's exciting prelaunch...
The Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory’s pilot corps during the final days of World War II: from left to right,...
U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon, aboard the U.S.S. Hornet aircraft carrier, used binoculars to watch the Apollo...
U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon (center), aboard the U.S.S. Hornet aircraft carrier, used binoculars to watch...
The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the...
The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Orion boilerplate test vehicle floats in the Pacific Ocean during Underway Recovery Test 4A....
The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the...
The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via a Saturn...
Extreme winter rains in January 2018 following the Thomas Fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties caused severe...
The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the...