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NEW YORK – A technician attaches a fixture beneath space shuttle Enterprise's nose as the shuttle was lowered onto a...
jsc2021e009421 (3/2/2021) --- A preflight view of the PERSEO garment prototype inspection and configuration for...
NEW YORK – Technicians review plans for lifting the space shuttle Enterprise from the top of NASA's shuttle carrier...
ISS028-E-020931 (3 Aug. 2011) --- Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev (out of frame), both...
NEW YORK – Technicians detach space shuttle Enterprise from the top of NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft. The work...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Project Morpheus prototype lander takes off on free flight test No. 15 at the north...
jsc2025e015689 (3/6/2025) --- The inside of the prototype is shown during testing for the the High Performance...
Two seats for the Artemis Orion crew module test article (CMTA) are in view in the high bay inside the Launch...
iss063e003541 (4/28/2020) --- The Quetzal-1 CubeSat is seen as it deploys from the JEM Small Satellite Orbital...
ISS028-E-019440 (29 July 2011) --- Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, Expedition 28 flight engineer, works with...
ISS028-E-020930 (3 Aug. 2011) --- Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev (out of frame), both...
NASA’s Project Morpheus prototype lander is moved into position at the north end of the Shuttle Landing Facility at...
Under the direction of Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was designed to allow...
ISS028-E-020919 (3 Aug. 2011) --- Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev (out of frame), both...
This is an artist's concept of an X-33 Advanced Technology Demonstrator, a subscale protoptye launch vehicle being...
NEW YORK – NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft is moved into place so the space shuttle Enterprise can be removed. The...
ISS028-E-020718 (3 Aug. 2011) --- Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev (out of frame), both...
A test unit, or prototype, of NASA's Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) was delivered to the Space Station Processing...
Nathan Sam and Robert “Red†Jensen lay material into a Prandtl-M aircraft mold at NASA’s Armstrong Flight...
ISS028-E-020929 (3 Aug. 2011) --- Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev (out of frame), both...
NASA’s Project Morpheus prototype lander is enveloped in a cloud of dust as it takes off on free flight test No. 15...
Visiting scientist Cheryl Frazier monitors a prototype composting machine in Hangar L at the Cape Canaveral Air...
The Helios Prototype is an enlarged version of the Centurion flying wing, which flew a series of test flights at...
NASA’s Project Morpheus prototype lander soars overhead during free flight test No. 15 at the north end of the...