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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft awaits inspection after being moved...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Jim Landy, NDE specialist with USA, looks closely at an area of a Reinforced Carbon...
Pilatus PC-12 Aircraft Being Prepped for Takeoff on June 12, 2024. A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in...
Endeavour is given the green light after all prelaunch 'go_no-go' polls are complete. Endeavour began its final...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Foreign object debris shields are installed and a borescope inspection is conducted on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, lights on the mobile launcher platform reveal...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, steam and smoke billow in the light from space...
The Nasca Lines are located in the Pampa region of Peru, the desolate plain of the Peruvian coast 400 km south of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The clouds over Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida light...
NASA scientists have made the first observation of a polar cyclone on Uranus. Using radio antenna dishes of the Very...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– At the Vertical Integration Facility on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Bathed in xenon lights, space shuttle Atlantis embarks on its final journey from the Vehicle...
As the size of a satellite is scaled down to the form factor of a CubeSat, the hardware must scale down as well....
Engineers install multilayer insulation (MLI) on the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) instrument...
At first glance, the most obvious features in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft are Saturn's rings and the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Bathed in xenon lights, space shuttle Atlantis embarks on its final journey from the Vehicle...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida hosted a celebration on...
The Eiffel Tower and its shadow can be seen next to the Seine in the left middle of this ASTER image of Paris. Based...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Atlantis is silhouetted by the brilliant runway lights as it lands on Runway 15 of the...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama within Gediz Vallis channel...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- At Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a solid rocket booster is ready to be...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- At Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a solid rocket booster is lifted into the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, Mel Romans, with United Space Alliance, prepares...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...