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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Plumes of exhaust and smoke build around the base of a lightning mast on Space Launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Smoke fills the pad and trails behind the Atlas V/Centaur rocket as it roars into space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – With smoke and steam rolling from the launch pad, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A large crane lowers to the ground a section of the dismantled rotating service structure on...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- Workers using a large crane remove the access arm section of the rotating service structure...
Space shuttle Endeavour stands tall and proud on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. First...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Billows of smoke and steam half frame Space Shuttle Atlantis as it roars into the...
STS055-26-023 (26 April-6 May 1993) --- Lightning and man-made lights on Earth can be seen in this fast speed, 35mm...
ISS030-E-260480 (22 April 2012) --- One of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the Atlas V/Centaur...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The tilt of the mobile service tower, or gantry, at Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- Workers using a large crane dismantle the final sections of the rotating service structure...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Pad 39B, a worker monitors data during evaluation of systems at the pad after...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A large crane suspends a basket where a worker is dismantling a section of the rotating...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A new NASA helicopter circles space shuttle Discovery on Launch Pad 39A prior to launch on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A wooded section of the southeast corner of Kennedy Space Center burns on Monday, June...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A charred palmetto palm remains after a brush fire is extinguished near Headquarters Building...
A view of the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft on Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Trailing a column of fire, the Atlas V/Centaur carrying NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Falcon 9 rocket rises above the lightning masts...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The deconstruction of Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is complete....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Under a slow-building cloud bank, space shuttle Atlantis hurtles past the lightning mast on...
In the Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium, members of the media participate in a mission briefing on...
The space shuttle Endeavour is seen on launch pad 39a as a storm passes by prior to the rollback of the Rotating...