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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The 327-foot-tall Ares I-X rocket is not the tallest structure on Launch Pad 39B beside the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Atlas V/Centaur is moving from the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Air...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – As clouds begin to gather over the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
This satellite image shows smoke from several fires in Oregon and California on Aug. 2, 2015. The Moderate...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- Workers using a large crane remove the access arm section of the rotating service structure...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space shuttle Atlantis soars past the lightning mast on Launch Pad 39A as it heads for...
A view of the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft on Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
Lightning strikes the Launch Pad 39B protection system as preparations for launch of NASA’s Space Launch System...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Plumes of exhaust and smoke build around the lightning masts on Space Launch Complex 40 on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Plumes of exhaust and smoke billow around the lightning masts on Space Launch Complex 40 on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The rotating service structure is closed around space shuttle Endeavour on Launch Pad 39A at...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rises above the lightning masts on Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the Atlas V/Centaur...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- Workers using a large crane dismantle the final sections of the rotating service structure...
A view of the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher on Launch Pad 39B at...
jsc2019e056550 (9/27/2019) --- Preflight view of Argus-02 awaiting integration at the NanoRacks facility. Argus-02...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- Workers using a large crane remove the access arm section of the rotating service structure...
Wildflowers frame a view of the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft on Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- Workers using a large crane remove the access arm section of the rotating service structure...
Crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) arrives on the surface of Launch Pad 39B for a fit check on May 22, 2018, at NASA's...
A view of the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft on Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A large crane suspends a basket where a worker is dismantling a section of the rotating...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The mobile service tower, or gantry, at Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Endeavour clears the lightning mast as it hurtles into space on mission...