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Construction workers with JP Donovan assist as a crane lifts the second of two Tail Service Mast Umbilicals up for...
The first of two Tail Service Mast Umbilicals is lifted up for installation on the 0-level deck of the mobile...
The second of two Tail Service Mast Umbilicals is lifted by crane for installation on the 0-level deck of the mobile...
A crane is used to lift up the first of two Tail Service Mast Umbilicals for installation on the 0-level deck of the...
Construction workers with JP Donovan monitor operations as a crane is used to lower the first of two Tail Service...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech Space Operations facilities near KSC, workers at left move a turnover...
A crane is used to lower the first of two Tail Service Mast Umbilicals for installation on the 0-level deck of the...
The first of two Tail Service Mast Umbilicals is lifted up for installation on the 0-level deck of the mobile...
Construction workers with JP Donovan monitor operations as a crane is used to lower the first of two Tail Service...
The second of two Tail Service Mast Umbilicals is lifted by crane for installation on the 0-level deck of the mobile...
On Dec. 4, NASA held a briefing at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to provide an overview of the next...
Representatives from NASA, SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron participate in a news conference...
The orbiter Discovery is unveiled as rollback of the Rotating Service Structure begins during final prelaunch...
G60-02552 (8 Nov. 1960) --- Little Joe-5 prelaunch fittings shot before flight from Wallops Island. The suborbital...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rotating service structure has pulled back to...
The SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster that will launch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission arrived in Florida Tuesday,...
S64-10806 (21 July 1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) spaceflight,...
S65-29655 (7 May 1965) --- Astronauts James A. McDivitt (left) and Edward H. White II, Gemini-4 prime crew, are...
S65-48989 (21 Aug. 1965) --- Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr. (foreground), command pilot, and Charles Conrad Jr.,...
STS029-S-041 (13 March 1989) --- Flight Directors (FD) Lee Brisco (left) and Ronad D. Dittmore monitor prelaunch...
S62-00371 (20 Feb. 1962) --- Mercury astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) spaceflight,...
S62-00469 (1962) --- Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) Earth-orbital space mission,...
NASA prelaunch technology TV show from Kennedy Space Center on June 23, 2019. Subject matter experts will explain...
S66-56177 (10 Sept. 1966) --- Technicians in the White Room atop Pad 19 prepare to close hatches on the Gemini-11...