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Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana, center, receives an update on SLS hardware from Heather Haney, left, an...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Tim Terry, with Kennedy Space Center Integrated Communications Services, sits at the...
The communications carrier is placed as part of Boeing's new spacesuit designed to be worn by astronauts flying on...
Crews prepare to move NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft from the Multi-Payload Processing Facility to the Launch...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A technician watches as the External Tank (ET) designated to fly on Return to Flight...
S68-19459 (22 Jan. 1968) --- The Apollo 5 (LM-1/Saturn 204) unmanned space mission was launched from the Kennedy...
This week, preparations for NASA and United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Mars 2020 mission continued. Technicians with...
JSC2001-02115 (31 July 2001) --- The flight controllers for the Ascent/Entry shift for the upcoming STS-105 mission...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A long-range tracking camera captures images of space shuttle Atlantis as it launches...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., the fairing halves are moved...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians closely watch as the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, workers close the hatch opening on the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building, Atlantis awaits a vacancy in...
Crews transport NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft from the Multi-Payload Processing Facility to the Launch Abort...
Crews prepare to move NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft from the Multi-Payload Processing Facility to the Launch...
A massive crane lifts the launch vehicle stage adapter 250 feet into the air on Thursday, April 3, 2025, to prepare...
STS-89 Pilot Joe Edwards Jr. is assisted with his ascent and re-entry flight suit in the white room at Launch Pad...
S68-19460 (22 Jan. 1968) --- The Apollo 5 (LM-1/Saturn 204) unmanned space mission was launched from the Kennedy...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The two halves of the fairing are closed around the NOAA-N Prime spacecraft in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force...
Boeing's new spacesuit designed to be worn by astronauts flying on the CST-100 Starliner. Seen here being worn in...
An aerial video crew observed the October 28, 2009 Ares I-X test flight from a Cessna Skymaster aircraft positioned...