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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Sen. Bill Nelson (right), D-Fla., explains the layout of the glass cockpit to Sen. John...
In Building 1555 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians maneuver the spacecraft handling...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech in Titusville, Fla., the payload transportation canister is lifted so it can be...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians stretch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., a worker cleans around the...
In Building 1555 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians roll the AIM spacecraft back under...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. -- In a clean-room environment at North Vandenberg Air Force Base, technicians...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In Hangar M on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the United Launch Alliance...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech payload processing facility, technicians install insulation blankets around...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside the Space Station Processing Facility, William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., the star tracker sun...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians prepare NASA's...
In Building 1555 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians work on the separation system to be...
In Building 1555 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians prepare the AIM spacecraft for...
In a clean-room environment at North Vandenberg Air Force Base, a technician prepares the lights for illumination...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II second stage for GLAST has arrived...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, workers secure the lines of the hoist that...
Listening to a trainer explain use of the slidewire basket they are standing in are STS-97 Commander Brent Jett and...
STS-95 crew members (from left) Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski, Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr.,...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. -- In a clean-room environment at North Vandenberg Air Force Base, technicians...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At North Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the AIM spacecraft is moved into a...
GEORGE DILLER: And NASA Launch Manager Chuck Dovale has just announced that we are scrubbing for today. Twenty-four...
Inside the clean-room "tent" of Building 1555 at North Vandenberg Air Force Base, technicians place a star tracker...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Lockheed Martin representatives explain some of the activities they are working on for...