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DARIAN BRYANT, LEFT, AND MELISSA HOPPER, STOWAGE ENGINEERS WITH THE PAYLOAD OPERATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER AT NASA'S...
ISS029-E-010999 (21 Sept. 2011) --- NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Expedition 29 commander, prepares a camcorder for...
The GOES-R spacecraft stands vertically inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida near...
Dr. Larry DeLucas operating the USML-1 Glovebox (GBX) during the USML-1 (STS-50) mission. Dr. DeLucas was a Payload...
iss068e012259 (Oct. 6, 2022) --- The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured above the Earth's horizon as the International...
The NASA Langley Alta-X Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) lifts off with a weather payload from the Monterey Bay Academy...
jsc2021e019956 (8/10/2015) --- A preflight photo of a Mini Coldbag with the lid open. The Mini Coldbag is a...
ISS029-E-010998 (21 Sept. 2011) --- NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Expedition 29 commander, prepares a camcorder for...
Engineers and technicians are completing assembly work inside the Space Station Processing Facility, on flight...
JSC2000-01455 (16 February 2000)--- Mike Kobrick communcates SRTM data to astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle...
ISS022-E-068856 (9 Feb. 2010) --- This view of the space shuttle Endeavour, taken on Feb. 9 from the International...
The Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) The technology consists of a Mass Spectrometer for Observing...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, structural work is ongoing inside the high bay of...
ISS015-E-23475 (20 Aug. 2007) --- Close-up view of a plant growth experiment in an Education Payload Operations...
ISS030-E-074051 (14 Feb. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Expedition 30 flight engineer, prepares for a NASA...
iss070e102747 (Feb. 26, 2024) --- Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara is photographed...
An overview of the Space Station Processing Facility shows equipment and future payloads on Shuttle missions to the...
JSC2000-01451 (16 February 2000)--- Three SRTM personnel support the STS-99 at and near the Crew Interface Console...
The SA-9 (Saturn I Block II), the eighth Saturn I flight, lifted off on February 16, 1965. This was the first Saturn...
ISS030-E-074053 (14 Feb. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Expedition 30 flight engineer, prepares for a NASA...
ISS022-E-068859 (9 Feb. 2010) --- This view of the space shuttle Endeavour, taken on Feb. 9 from the International...
STS 51-F crewmembers depart the Kennedy Space Center's operations and checkout building on their way to the launch...
iss053e130267 (Oct. 24, 2017) --- The Kestrel Eye IIM (KE2M) CubeSat is deployed from the tip of the Dextre attached...
STS095-366-031 (29 Oct-7 Nov 1998) --- Astronaut Curtis L. Brown, Jr., mission commander, operates controls on the...