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In these video clips, Jennifer Takeshita, the Teledyne Brown Engineering manufacturing lead for the launch vehicle...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is filling sample tubes with rocky material on the Red Planet as the agency works on...
S100-E-5314 (23 April 2001) --- Cosmonaut Yury V. Usachev, Expedition Two commander, holds a small-scale model of...
Yalode crater is so large -- at 162 miles, 260 kilometers in diameter -- that a variety of vantage points is...
At North Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the AIM spacecraft is moved into a clean room for testing. AIM,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Pad 17-B, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A Dynamac worker (left) explains the function of the KSC Space Life Sciences (SLS) Lab...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Smoke is generated at liftoff of NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope , or GLAST,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Fla., NASA astronaut Mike Fincke observes as...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket is...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Astrotech payload processing facility, technicians lower NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., the overhead crane...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. -- In Building 1555 at North Vandenberg Air Force Base, workers roll the AIM...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians attach the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In Building 1555 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians lift...
In a clean-room environment at North Vandenberg Air Force Base, technicians remove covers from instruments in the...
KSC’s PAO videographer, Glenn Benson (left) listens to STS-100 Pilot Jeffrey S. Ashby explain use of the Canadian...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., workers install one of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The mated Pegasus XL rocket - AIM spacecraft is secured onto a transporter at...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. -- In Building 1555 at North Vandenberg Air Force Base, workers get ready to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The truck carrying the United Launch Alliance Delta II first stage arrives at Hangar M...
STS-97 Pilot Mike Bloomfield stands in a slidewire basket at the landing zone on Launch Pad 39B while a trainer...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech payload processing facility, technicians install insulation blankets around...
Lunar Landing Simulator: Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee (left) receives instruction from Maxwell W. Goode, a scientist...