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Jun 7, 2007

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- After rollback of the rotating service structure, or RSS, on Launch Pad 39A, Space...

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NASA image: KSC-07pd1391
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Jun 7, 2007

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Rollback of the rotating service structure, or RSS, begins on Launch Pad 39A,...

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NASA image: KSC-06pd1301
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Jun 30, 2006

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In preparation for the July 1 launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-121, the...

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NASA image: KSC-00pp0637
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May 18, 2000

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- After rollback of the Rotating Service Structure, Space Shuttle Atlantis can be seen...

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NASA image: KSC-06pd1307
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Jun 30, 2006

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After rollback of the rotating service structure (RSS) on Launch Pad 39B, Space Shuttle...

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NASA image: KSC00pp0637
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May 18, 2000

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- After rollback of the Rotating Service Structure, Space Shuttle Atlantis can be seen...

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NASA image: KSC-2009-4425
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Aug 4, 2009

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Sitting on top of the mobile launcher platform, space shuttle Discovery straddles the flame...

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NASA image: KSC-2009-4422
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Aug 4, 2009

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crawler-transporter delivers space shuttle...

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NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Robert T. Nelson of KSC Security points to an approximately 24-foot-long crack on the Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP), which is holding the Space Shuttle Discovery en route to Launch Pad 39A for the STS-82 mission. Nelson was riding on the MLP when he heard a loud noise and noticed the crack. Rollout had begun shortly after 7 a.m. EST and was stopped at about 8:25 a.m. This Y-shaped crack is on the MLP surface and runs from near the left-hand solid rocket booster flame hole toward the near corner of the MLP. Rollout of Discovery resumed just past noon after structural engineers determined that the integrity of the MLP had not been compromised. Discovery is scheduled to lift off on the second Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission on Feb. 11.
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Jan 17, 1997

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Robert T. Nelson of KSC Security points to an approximately 24-foot-long crack on the Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP), which is holding the Space Shuttle Discovery en route to Launch Pad 39A for the STS-82 mission. Nelson was riding on the MLP when he heard a loud noise and noticed the crack. Rollout had begun shortly after 7 a.m. EST and was stopped at about 8:25 a.m. This Y-shaped crack is on the MLP surface and runs from near the left-hand solid rocket booster flame hole toward the near corner of the MLP. Rollout of Discovery resumed just past noon after structural engineers determined that the integrity of the MLP had not been compromised. Discovery is scheduled to lift off on the second Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission on Feb. 11.

NASA image: Expedition 38 Preflight
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Nov 4, 2013

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Workers make final preperations to a Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodome in...

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NASA image: KSC-2010-5702
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Nov 17, 2010

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians reattach the vent...

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NASA image: KSC-2011-3727
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May 16, 2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Endeavour rises on twin columns of flame from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd3718
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Nov 14, 2008

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Clouds of smoke and steam roll across Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...

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NASA image: KSC-01pp1792
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Dec 5, 2001

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - The reflection in water near Launch Pad 39B captures the brilliance of the flames...

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NASA image: KSC00pp1611
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Oct 24, 2000

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In the turn basin near the Vehicle Assembly Building (left) a launch table is docked, waiting for transfer to Launch...

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NASA image: KSC00pp0227
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Feb 11, 2000

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- A rainbow corona of light shimmers behind Space Shuttle Endeavour as a column of flame...

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NASA image: Image 02_32_18_33
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Dec 21, 2020

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Operators at the B-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, conducted a wet dress...

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NASA image: KSC-2011-7988
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Nov 26, 2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- With NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft sealed inside its payload fairing, the...

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NASA image: KSC-2010-5680
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Nov 16, 2010

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers install a new 7-inch...

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NASA image: KSC-2009-2070
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Mar 15, 2009

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Water near Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida captures the brilliant...

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NASA image: Expedition 38 Preflight
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Nov 4, 2013

Expedition 38 Preflight

Workers make final preperations to a Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodome in...

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NASA image: KSC-2010-5687
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Nov 16, 2010

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers install a new 7-inch...

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NASA image: KSC01pp0828
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Apr 19, 2001

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Flames from Space Shuttle Endeavour light up the clouds as the Shuttle races into...

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NASA image: KSC-08pp0733
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Mar 11, 2008

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Blazing towers of flame propel space shuttle Endeavour into the dark sky from Launch...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Robert T. Nelson of KSC Security points to an approximately 24-foot-long crack on the...

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