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Researchers used the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover to gain this detailed view of layers in...
STS121-S-027 (4 July 2006) --- Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew launched at 2:38 p.m. (EDT) to...
STS121-S-029 (4 July 2006) --- Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew launched at 2:38 p.m. (EDT) to...
STS121-S-028 (4 July 2006) --- Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew launched at 2:38 p.m. (EDT) to...
A view of one of the spacecraft adapter jettison panels falling away from the Orion spacecraft’s service module,...
A view from cameras on board the Orion spacecraft as it climbs to orbit, powered by the SLS (Space Launch System)...
S72-55421 (14 Dec. 1972) --- The Apollo 17 Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" ascent stage leaves the Taurus-Littrow...
The DC-8 ascents during its final flight before it is retired from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building...
JSC2001-E-06202 (8 March 2001) --- At their console in Houston's Mission Control Center, flight directors Wayne Hale...
JSC2001-E-06208 (8 March 2001) --- At his console in Houston's Mission Control Center, ascent flight director Wayne...
JSC2001-E-06214 (8 March 2001) --- At their console in Houston's Mission Control Center, flight directors Wayne Hale...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Following the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-121 on July 4, images...
April Torres and Jeffery Sutherland complete a systems and functional check on the master data acquisition system...
STS-85 Payload Specialist Bjarni V. Tryggvason is assisted with his ascent/reentry flight suit by white room...
VANDENBERG AFB, California – NASA's SMAP spacecraft inside the service structure at Space Launch Complex-2 at...
STS-85 Payload Commander N. Jan Davis is assisted with her ascent/reentry flight suit by white room closeout crew...
jsc2026e018923 (April 1, 2026) - Artemis II capcom Stan Love sits on console in Mission Control's White Flight...
jsc2026e018916 (April 1, 2026) - Judd Frieling, the Artemis II lead flight director for ascent, is photographed in...
jsc2026e018917 (April 1, 2026) - The Artemis II flight control team is seen in Mission Control's White Flight...
jsc2026e018917 (April 1, 2026) - The Artemis II flight control team is seen in Mission Control's White Flight...
JSC2001-E-06210 (8 March 2001) --- As STS-102 Discovery liftoff countdown proceeds at the Kennedy Space Center...
STS-85 Commander Curtis L. Brown, Jr. is assisted with his ascent/reentry flight suit by white room closeout crew...
A photographer focuses on part of the tracking telescope that provides optical support for launches from KSC and...
The Saturn IB launch vehicle (SA204) for the Apollo 5 mission lifted off on January 22, 1968. The unmarned Apollo 5...