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The Orion ground test vehicle is prepared for the Launch Abort Vehicle Configuration Test at Lockheed Martin's...
JSC2001-E-12120 (19 April 2001) --- STS-100 ascent flight director LeRoy Cain (left) leans over the Mission...
S90-41366 (11 June 1990) --- Astronaut Bryan D. O'Connor, STS-40 mission commander, talks with Elizabeth Youmans of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the...
STS-88 Mission Specialist James H. Newman is assisted with his ascent and re-entry flight suit in the white room at...
The last major assembly operation to prepare Orion for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) is completed in the Launch...
The Orion ground test vehicle is prepared for the Launch Abort Vehicle Configuration Test at Lockheed Martin's...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 1, workers get...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Both halves of the fairing have been separated after being lifted to the top of the...
At the launch pad perimeter camera site at Launch Complex 39B, news media representatives are briefed on the...
NASA’s Artemis II hardware, the launch vehicle stage adapter, is inside High Bay 4 on Thursday, March 20, 2025, at...
The last major assembly operation to prepare Orion for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) is completed in the Launch...
The last major assembly operation to prepare Orion for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) is completed in the Launch...
JSC2001-E-12122 (19 April 2001) --- Astronaut Scott D. Altman (foreground), STS-100 ascent spacecraft communicator...
The Orion ground test vehicle is prepared for the Launch Abort Vehicle Configuration Test at Lockheed Martin's...
The Orion ground test vehicle is prepared for the Launch Abort Vehicle Configuration Test at Lockheed Martin's...
On August 15, 2018 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine visited Marshall Space Flight Center. Upon his arrival he was...
STS079-348-004 (16 Sept. 1996) --- Soon after the space shuttle Atlantis completed its rocket mode ascent to...
iss062e087445 (March 9, 2020) --- From top to bottom, Expedition 62 crewmembers Andrew Morgan, Oleg Skripochka and...
JSC2001-E-21341 (12 July 2001) --- From a familiar setting near the rear of shuttle flight control room (WFCR) at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force...
The Orion ground test vehicle is prepared for the Launch Abort Vehicle Configuration Test at Lockheed Martin's...
STS-87 Pilot Steven Lindsey is inspected before launch in his ascent and re-entry flight suit in the white room at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 1, workers move the...