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The fifth launch of the Saturn V launch vehicle (SA-505), the Apollo 10 mission with astronauts Thomas P. Stafford,...
Inside the dome building at Playalinda Beach, Mike Litscher talks to media about the Distant Object Attitude...
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...
STS039-S-022 (28 April 1991)--- Two spacecraft communicators at the CAPCOM console monitor the ascent of the Space...
iss064e011228 (Dec. 7, 2020) --- JAXA astronaut Sochi Noguchi is pictured inside the newly arrived SpaceX Cargo...
A CONCEPT IMAGE SHOWS THE ARES I CREW LAUNCH VEHICLE DURING ASCENT. ARES I IS AN IN-LINE, TWO-STAGE ROCKET...
JSC2000-E-23530 (October 2000) --- Astronaut Joseph R. Tanner receives a helping hand from astronaut Carlos I....
JSC2000-E-19040 (July 2000) --- These flight directors have been named for key support to the STS-106 mission,...
Only moments away from ignition, Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, and its five member crew are the subjects of...
Propulsion test that simulates an abort-to-orbit scenario in which the spacecraft’s service module must place Orion...
NASA’s Artemis II hardware, the launch vehicle stage adapter, is inside High Bay 4 on Thursday, March 20, 2025, at...
The Orion ground test vehicle is prepared for the Launch Abort Vehicle Configuration Test at Lockheed Martin's...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the...
The last major assembly operation to prepare Orion for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) is completed in the Launch...
A launch abort engine built by Aerojet Rocketdyne is hot-fired during tests in the Mojave Desert in California. The...
The Orion crew module test article begins acoustical testing in the Reverberant Acoustics Laboratory (RAL) at the...
JSC2001-E-21333 (12 July 2001) --- From a familiar setting in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR)at Houston's...
The Orion ground test vehicle is prepared for the Launch Abort Vehicle Configuration Test at Lockheed Martin's...
S99-14214 (15 November 1999) --- Astronaut Edward T. Lu, mission specialist, receives assistance with his pressure,...
The Orion ground test vehicle is prepared for the Launch Abort Vehicle Configuration Test at Lockheed Martin's...
iss068e044174 (Jan. 31, 2023) --- The Canadarm2 robotic arm is pictured extending away from the International Space...
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...