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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Rising above the lightning towers around the pad, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or...
Crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) arrives on the surface of Launch Pad 39B for a fit check on May 22, 2018, at NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – From Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis hurtles...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Fire Rescue personnel douse a brush fire near Headquarters Building in the Industrial Area of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Space Shuttle Endeavour clears the lightning mast as it hurtles into space on mission...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– Viewed across the lagoon at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Boosted by the columns of flame from the solid rocket boosters, space shuttle Atlantis...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Fire erupts beneath the mobile service tower, or gantry, at Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis, atop the Mobile Launcher Platform and Crawler-Transporter,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The deconstruction of Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is complete....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Falcon 9 rocket rises above the lightning masts...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The mobile service tower, or gantry, in the foreground at Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Blazing towers of flame propel space shuttle Endeavour into the dark sky past the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Moved by the crawler-transporter underneath, Space Shuttle Atlantis inches down the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to launch NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Atop twin towers of flame, space shuttle Endeavour erupts from the smoke and steam as it...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The upper part of the mobile service tower, or gantry, at Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape...
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. -- A cloud of exhaust and smoke billows past a lightning mast on Space Launch Complex 41 on...
Lightning strikes the Launch Pad 39B protection system as preparations for launch of NASA’s Space Launch System...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, twin columns of fire propel space shuttle...
Engineering and physics degrees? Check. Previous work for NASA? Another check. Experience working at the South Pole...
ISS040-E-070439 (19 July 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International...