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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a truck arrives at the Launch Abort System...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA aerospace engineer Brian Barnett puts on his gloves during suitup before a test...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a truck arrives at the Launch Abort System...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a truck arrives at the Launch Abort System...
S72-35614 (23 April 1972) --- The Apollo 16 Lunar Module "Orion" ascent stage makes its liftoff from the lunar...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft waits for fairing encapsulation in the mobile service tower of...
Crews prepare to move NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft from the Multi-Payload Processing Facility to the Launch...
In the Image Analysis Facility in the Vehicle Assembly Building, Armando Oliu (second from right), lead of the KSC...
S71-35169 (June 1971) --- The color television camera for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA)...
STS-89 Mission Specialist Salizhan Sharipov of the Russian Space Agency is assisted with his ascent and re-entry...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the...
Crews prepare to move NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft from the Multi-Payload Processing Facility to the Launch...
iss068e043860 (Jan. 30, 2023) --- The Canadarm2 robotic arm is pictured extending away from the International Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force...
A massive crane lowers the launch vehicle stage adapter onto the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage on Thursday,...
STS-89 Commander Terrence Wilcutt is assisted with his ascent and re-entry flight suit in the white room at Launch...
JSC2002-00514 (February 2002)--- The STS-109 flight crew poses with the ascent and entry shift team in the Shuttle...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians closely watch as the...
jsc2020e030483 (4/20/2020) --- A preflight image sequence from parabolic flight experiments indicating motion of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians closely watch the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A pair of 149-foot-long, space shuttle solid rocket booster, or SRB, displays from the...
NASA and SpaceX technicians safely encapsulate NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force...
STS071-S-072 (4 July 1995) --- This view of the space shuttle Atlantis still connected to Russia's Mir Space Station...