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S82-28923 (March 1982) --- Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton, STS-3 pilot, uses both hands to retrieve part of a meal...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- External tank No. 117 rolls past NASA's Launch Control Center on its way to the Turn...
The Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range is seen, Monday, July 17, 2023, as recovery teams tour the...
STS088-357-020 (4-15 Dec. 1998) --- Astronauts Jerry L. Ross and Nancy J. Currie, both mission specialists, check...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- External tank No. 117 rolls past NASA's Launch Control Center (behind it) on its way...
STS091-727-075 (2-12 June 1998)--- Russia's Mir space station is backdropped against the darkness of space in this...
A training model of the sample return capsule is seen during a drop test in preparation for the retrieval of the...
Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-46) onboard photo of the Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1) on deployer boom. The...
ISS011-E-13009 (14 September 2005) --- Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, Expedition 11 commander representing Russia's...
ISS038-E-036797 (27 Jan. 2014) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Expedition 38 commander, attired in a Russian Orlan...
Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from...
iss056e142673 (Aug. 15, 2018) --- Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev works to install the Icarus animal-tracking...
Boeing Defense, Space and Security President and CEO Leanne Caret receives an American flag from NASA Administrator...
Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from...
STS064-111-041 (12 Sept. 1994) ---- Backdropped against New England's coast, the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research...
S66-39691 (18 June 1966) --- Astronaut John W. Young, prime crew command pilot for the Gemini-10 spaceflight, sits...
ISS011-E-13021 (14 September 2005) --- Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, Expedition 11 commander representing Russia's...
In this 1986 artist's concept, the Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV), at right, prepares to reboost the Hubble Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, tows a solid...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The SRB Retrieval Ship Liberty Star heads up the Banana River to Cape Canaveral Air...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, tows a spent booster from...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, tows a solid...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a booster retrieval ship...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At a dock in Port Canaveral, the SRB Retrieval Ship Liberty Star transfers its tow...