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Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- At the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
This closeup shows the Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft nestled inside the backshell. The spacecraft will undergo spin...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- At the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians secure the backshell with the Phoenix Mars Lander inside...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- At the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
This long-exposure image (24 seconds) was taken by Instrument Context Camera (ICC) of NASA's InSight Mars lander....
Back shell panels are visible on the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission inside the Neil A. Armstrong...
Visible in the foreground are back shell panels on the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission inside the Neil...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility prepare the heat shield that will be attached to the backshell,...
This from NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Stereo Surface Imager SSI camera shows Phoenix parachute, backshell, heatshield,...
This panorama looks to the southeast and shows rocks casting shadows, polygons on the surface and as the image looks...
The aeroshell backshell for the Mars Perseverance rover is attached to the rocket-powered descent stage inside the...
The aeroshell backshell for the Mars Perseverance rover is attached to the rocket-powered descent stage inside the...
The aeroshell backshell for the Mars Perseverance rover is attached to the rocket-powered descent stage inside the...
Back shell panels are visible on the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis IV mission inside the Neil A. Armstrong...
This image of Perseverance's backshell and parachute was collected from an altitude of 26 feet (8 meters) by the...
This image of Perseverance's backshell (left of center), supersonic parachute (far right), was collected from an...
The heat shield and back shell for the Mars 2020 rover are unboxed inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility...
The heat shield and back shell for the Mars 2020 rover are unboxed inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility...
The heat shield and back shell for the Mars 2020 rover are unboxed inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility...
The heat shield and back shell for the Mars 2020 rover are unboxed inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility...
The heat shield and back shell for the Mars 2020 rover are unboxed inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility...
The heat shield and back shell for the Mars 2020 rover are unboxed inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility...
This artist concept is of NASA Mars Science Laboratory MSL Curiosity rover parachute system; the largest parachute...