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This aerial view captures KSC's Launch Pad 39A, with the rotating service structure closed around Shuttle Atlantis....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A large crawler crane moves past the Vehicle Assembly Building on its way to Launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a crane lifts the last part of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the crane crawler lifts a piling off...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A large crawler crane begins moving away from the turn basin at the Launch Complex 39...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Rain soaked Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where space shuttle...
iss073e0532039 (July 1, 2025) --- NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured this image of lightning orbiting aboard the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rotating service structure (RSS) on Launch...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A powerful electrical storm created an eerie tapestry of light in the skies near Space...
ISS036-E-022863 (21 July 2013) --- One of the crew members aboard the International Space Station photographed this...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a crane lifts another part of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A large crawler crane arrives at the turn basin at the Launch Complex 39 Area on...
This anvil-shaped cloud over the Central Florida coast is part of a NASA study measuring electric fields in this...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A large crawler crane travels along one of the crawlerway tracks on its way to Launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A lightning strike sparks a brush fire near Headquarters Building in the Industrial Area of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a crane lifts another part of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the crane crawler puts a piling into...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A large crawler crane begins moving away from the turn basin at the Launch Complex 39...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A large crawler crane traveling long one of the crawlerway tracks makes the turn...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - An aerial view of Launch Pad 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A lightning strike is caught on camera during an afternoon thunderstorm at Kennedy...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers secure straps around the lightning...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Rain pounds Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where space shuttle...
ISS026-E-027368 (16 Feb. 2011) --- Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, Expedition 26 flight engineer, wearing a...