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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-127 mission team consider the need to...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Viewed across the Indian River Lagoon, the Atlas V/Centaur rocket carrying NASA's Lunar...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — Two 34-year-old towers on Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Station, fall to the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After rollback of the mobile service tower, the Boeing Delta II rocket with the Mercury...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — Two 34-year-old towers on Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Station, lie on the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Endeavour emerges from the cloud of smoke and steam on NASA Kennedy Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Ares I-X rocket heads toward Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The sun creeps over the horizon (right) as Space Shuttle Atlantis, atop the Mobile...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An aerial view shows construction progress at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A large crane dismantles the fixed service structure FSS piece by piece on Launch Pad 39B at...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The morning sun highlights the back of space shuttle Discovery as it makes its way to Launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Firing Room at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-127 Shuttle Launch Director...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – From across a pond, space shuttle Endeavour leaps from NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Atop twin columns of fire, space shuttle Discovery clears the lightning rod atop the...
NASA astronaut Eric Boe, one of four astronauts working with the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, checked out the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A large crane dismantles the fixed service structure FSS piece by piece on Launch Pad 39B at...
Students from high schools around the United States busily prepare their robots for the FIRST (For Inspiration and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An aerial view shows construction progress at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Endeavour soars into the sky on the STS-127 mission from NASA Kennedy Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket rushes past the lightning masts on Space Launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –Sitting on top of the mobile launcher platform and propelled by the crawler-transporter, space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Storm clouds fill the sky from Launch Pad 39B, at right, west beyond the Vehicle...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The fallen 300-foot, five-million-pound Mobile Service Tower (MST) on Launch Complex...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Space Shuttle Atlantis rolls up the ramp to Launch Pad 39B atop the...