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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC, workers begin moving NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft into the building MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - is being taken into a high bay clean room where employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, builders of the spacecraft, will perform an initial state-of-health check. Then processing for launch can begin, including checkout of the power systems, communications systems and control systems. The thermal blankets will also be attached for flight. MESSENGER will be launched May 11 on a six-year mission aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 2:26 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 11.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC, workers begin moving...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Shipped in an air-conditioned transportation van from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, the first Mercury orbiter, arrives at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC. MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - will be offloaded and taken into a high bay clean room. After the spacecraft is removed from its shipping container, employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, builders of the spacecraft, will perform an initial state-of-health check. Then processing for launch can begin, including checkout of the power systems, communications systems and control systems. The thermal blankets will also be attached for flight. MESSENGER will be launched May 11 on a six-year mission aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 2:26 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 11.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC, a lift helps offload NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft shipped from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - will be taken into a high bay clean room and employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, builders of the spacecraft, will perform an initial state-of-health check. Then processing for launch can begin, including checkout of the power systems, communications systems and control systems. The thermal blankets will also be attached for flight. MESSENGER will be launched May 11 on a six-year mission aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 2:26 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 11.

Preparing NASA's Europa Clipper's Plasma Instrument

Included in the payload of science instruments for NASA's Europa Clipper is the Plasma Instrument for Magnetic...

Parker Solar Probe "Name Chip" Installation

On Friday, May 18, 2018, at the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space...

Lucy Science Briefing

A science briefing for the Lucy mission is held inside the TV Auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida...

Parker Solar Probe Mission Science Briefing

In the Kennedy Space Center's Operations and Support Building II, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, members of the media...

Parker Solar Probe "Name Chip" Installation

On Friday, May 18, 2018, at the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space...

Parker Solar Probe "Name Chip" Installation

On Friday, May 18, 2018, at the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space...

NEO Surveyor’s Large Sunshade Takes Shape

The sunshade for NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission towers above a fixture at supplier Applied...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Mobile Service Tower begins...

The TigerShark Unmanned Aircraft

The Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation’s TigerShark prepares for its final takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base for...

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Flying from their training base in Star City, Russia to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan,...

Underway Recovery Test 7 (URT-7) - Day 6 Activities

Wave trackers with Applied Physical Sciences monitor ocean wave conditions during Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7)...

Instrument Upload to OLYMPEX DC-8: At Goddard B-Roll

The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) is a ground validation field campaign designed to verify and validate...

SRB Processing Facilities Media Event

Inside the Booster Fabrication Facility (BFF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Jeff Cook, a thermal...

Mangala Fossae

The linear features in this image are part of Mangala Fossae. Mangala Fossae are long linear depressions called a...

STEReO Field Testing

Joey Mercer, principle investigator for STEReO, the Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A technician exits the intertank of space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank holding the...

2019 Earth Science Applications Showcase

Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, speaks during the 2019 Annual...

2018 Earth Science Applications Showcase

Africa Flores, Land Cover and Land Use Change Theme Lead for SERVIR, speaks during the 2018 Annual Earth Science...

Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories Event

NASA Headquarters Deputy Director for the Astrophysics Division, Sandra Cauffman, speaks during a panel discussion...

The TigerShark Unmanned Aircraft

The Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation’s TigerShark prepares for its final takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base for...

Mars Comet Encounter Briefing

Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, left, is seen with fellow panelists...