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The Orion ground test vehicle is prepared for the Launch Abort Vehicle Configuration Test at Lockheed Martin's...
iss072e145964 (Nov. 6, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore installs the Powered...
At the launch pad perimeter camera site at Launch Complex 39B, Robert Page (pointing), chair of the NASA Intercenter...
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...
STS028-S-005 (8 Aug 1989) --- Three of five STS-28 astronaut crewmembers are pictured during their suiting up...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The fairing (on the left) for the Swift-Delta launch is lifted up the outside of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The fairing for the Swift-Delta launch is raised to a vertical position at pad 17-A,...
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS - With a half-Earth in the background, the Lunar Module ascent stage with...
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...
jsc2026e018915 (April 1, 2026) - Artemis II lead capcom Stan Love (right) and Artemis II chief training officer...
Two views of the jettison of the launch abort system from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II launch. The...
art002m1200912239C (April 1, 2026) - Eight minutes into the flight of NASA’s Artemis II mission, the core stage of...
art002m1200912239D (April 1, 2026) - Eight minutes into the flight of NASA’s Artemis II mission, the core stage of...
The Orion ground test vehicle is prepared for the Launch Abort Vehicle Configuration Test at Lockheed Martin's...
JSC2002-E-08148 (1 March 2002) --- Astronaut Mark L. Polansky, seated at the Spacecraft Communicator (CAPCOM)...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Viewed here is part of the tracking telescope that provides optical support for...
JSC2001-E-12116 (19 April 2001) --- LeRoy Cain, at the Flight Director console, peruses information on large screens...
At the launch pad perimeter camera site at Launch Complex 39B, news media representatives are briefed on the...
STS037-45-012 (10 April 1991) --- Astronauts Linda M. Godwin and Jerome (Jay) Apt sort out the special...
JSC2006-E-39854 (9 Sept. 2006) --- In the Shuttle (White) Flight Control Room of Houston's Mission Control Center,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An external tank is suspended in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building...
STS088-313-030 (4-15 December 1998) --- Astronaut James H. Newman assists astronaut Nancy J. Currie, both mission...