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STS-125 Mission Specialist Andrew Feustel, right, shows a part from the Hubble Space Telescope to retired astronaut...
Images from the Hubble Space Telescope are reflected on special glasses as people observe the newly released...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The engines of a Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle ignite to blast NASA's Swift...
This video features both the rugged scenery of Greenland and the somewhat rugged interior of a NASA C-130, the...
S72-53470 (November 1972) --- The Far-Ultraviolet Spectrometer, Experiment S-169, one of the lunar orbital science...
At Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a worker adjusts a bracket around the camera he is attaching...
ISS012-E-20043 (9 March 2006) --- Astronaut William S. (Bill) McArthur, Expedition 12 commander and NASA space...
David Leckrone, senior project scientist for Hubble at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA's Swift spacecraft blasts off from Complex 17A into the beautiful blue sky above...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Payload Changeout Room at Launch Pad 39A, technicians work the Payload...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One is on its way to the Moon as part of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle stands ready to launch NASA’s Swift...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Payload Changeout Room at Launch Pad 39A, technicians work the Payload...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle stands ready to launch NASA’s Swift...
SL2-X3-205 (June 1973) --- Scientist-astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin, Skylab 2 science pilot, is photographed strapped...
A team of experts prepares the ER-2 aircraft at Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California for the GSFC...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
From November 10 through December 21, NASA and university scientists are taking to the field to study wet winter...
On July 1, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying ESA’s (European Space Agency) Euclid spacecraft, launched from Cape...
At Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a worker prepares the site before attaching a camera to the...
U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md. delivers her remarks during a press conference where NASA unveiled new...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
A team of experts prepares the ER-2 aircraft at Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California for the GSFC...