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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
ISS015-E-22539 (15 Aug. 2007) --- Astronaut Rick Mastracchio, STS-118 mission specialist, participates in the...
Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from...
61B-05-021 (26 Nov-3 Dec 1985) --- Payload Specialist Rodolfo Neri, representing Mexico on the STS-61B space mission...
S66-58501 (27 Oct. 1966) --- The prime crew of the first manned Apollo Space Flight, Apollo/Saturn (AS) mission 204,...
The Milky Way is seen above Dugway Proving Ground, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, near Dugway, Utah. Recovery teams met in...
Recovery teams participate in helicopter training in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
STS081-E-05091 (12 Jan. 1997) --- Astronaut Michael A. Baker, mission commander, prepares to retrieve a temporarily...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- External tank No. 117 rests inside the barge at the Turn Basin in the Launch Complex...
Recovery team members use ropes to hold a test version of Orion steady inside the USS Anchorage's well deck as it is...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the external fuel tank designated ET-133 is moved...
STS032-S-062 (9 Jan 1990) --- Inside the White Room at Launch Pad 39A, a suit technician helps astronaut Daniel C....
ISS040-E-099407 (18 Aug. 2014) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, Expedition 40 flight engineer, attired in...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- External tank No. 117 exits NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building. It is heading for the...
The Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range is seen, Monday, July 17, 2023, as recovery teams tour the...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
STS080-341-032 (19 Nov.-7 Dec. 1996) --- Astronaut Kent V. Rominger, STS-80 pilot, occupies the commander's station...
ISS015-E-22632 (15 Aug. 2007) --- Astronaut Rick Mastracchio, STS-118 mission specialist, participates in the...
STS095-E-5166 (2 Nov. 1998) --- Astronaut Curtis L. Brown Jr. (left), STS-95 commander, and U.S. Sen. John H. Glenn...
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket arrives at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...
The Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range is seen, Monday, July 17, 2023, as recovery teams tour the...