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Sarah Manning, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, is part of a team that operates “Sasquatch,” an...
STS073-351-024 (20 October - 5 November 1995) --- Astronaut Kenneth D. Bowersox, STS-73 mission commander, retrieves...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- External tank No. 117 rolls toward the opening in the barge at the Turn Basin in the...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-32R lifts off from Pad 39-A at 7:35 a.m. EST. Columbia is scheduled to deploy the...
ISS038-E-036326 (27 Jan. 2014) --- Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov, Expedition 38 commander, and Sergey Ryazanskiy...
S61-02824 (21 July 1961) --- A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter attempts an unsuccessful recovery of the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A look at strapping equipment used on parachutes in the Parachute Refurbishment Facility at...
Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from...
A training model of the sample return capsule is seen during a drop test in preparation for the retrieval of the...
ISS040-E-099375 (18 Aug. 2014) --- Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev (out of frame), both...
A training model of the sample return capsule is seen during a drop test in preparation for the retrieval of the...
Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from...
Stephen Lee, Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Flight Operations, performs preflight checks prior to a drop test in...
Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from...
Recovery team members observe from inside the USS Anchorage's well deck as a test version of Orion is reeled in from...
A new space explorer is waiting in the wings and ready to take center stage: the Mars lander called Phoenix. Set for...
iss059e002991 (March 22, 2019) --- NASA astronaut Nick Hague, seemingly curtained by the International Space...
Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Port Canaveral, Fla., technicians help install the X-band radar on the deck of the U.S....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Viewed across the turn basin in the Launch Complex 39 Area at KSC, the barge containing...
ISS040-E-100022 (18 Aug. 2014) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, Expedition 40 flight engineer, attired in a...
ISS040-E-099101 (18 Aug. 2014) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, Expedition 40 flight engineer, attired in a...
S66-39719 (18 June 1966) --- Astronaut Michael Collins, prime crew pilot for the Gemini-10 spaceflight, sits in...