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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
Technicians integrate NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
S98-07969 (5 June 1998) --- Crew trainer Adam Flagan (left) checks out STS-95 payload specialists Chiaki Naito-Mukai...
Five NASA astronauts and one Canadian payload specialist composed the STS-52 crew. Pictured on the back row, left to...
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate,...
The STS-83 flight crew enjoys the traditional pre-liftoff breakfast in the crew quarters of the Operations and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the payload canister is lifted...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A Universal Coolant Transporter (UCT), manufactured in Sharpes, Fla., drives past the...
Technicians integrate NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an...
Thalia Patrinos, and Jason Townsend from NASA's Social Media Teamm monitor questions coming in from social media...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – STS-125 crew members conduct equipment and procedure familiarization on parts of the payload...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-90 Neurolab payload is lowered into its payload canister in KSC's Operations...
Technicians integrate NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine talks via satellite with NASA astronaut Stan Love from NASA’s Johnson Space...
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine answers questions during an event where nine U.S. companies where named as...
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine talks with Dave Lavery, Program Executive for Solar System Exploration, and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the remote...