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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- A third solid rocket booster arrives on Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for...
The north pole of Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede can be seen in this composite image of infrared data from the Jovian...
Image shows OCO-3's first preliminary solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) measurements over western Asia. Solar-induced...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the walls of the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- On Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II rocket, at right, that will...
This image is an x-ray view of Eta Carinae Nebula showing bright stars taken with the High Energy Astronomy...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Water from the rainbirds floods the mobile launcher platform as space shuttle Discovery rises...
In the foreground inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California,...
The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was able to...
Inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, a United Launch Alliance...
While instruments on the pallets in the payload bay observed the universe, biological experiments were performed in...
One of the two pictures of Tempel 1 (see also PIA02101) taken by Deep Impact's medium-resolution camera is shown...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Viewed from the Banana River Viewing Site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The plant pillows containing the outredgeous red lettuce leaves have been removed from the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- On Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the solid rocket booster is raised from...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the bright light of day, Space Shuttle Atlantis nears the hard stand on Launch Pad...
Designed by the STS-88 crew members, this patch commemorates the first assembly flight to carry United States-built...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The open doors of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the crawler transporter used for moving...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2, United Space Alliance technician Loralee Woodbury...
The rippled surface of the first Martian sand dune ever studied up close fills this view of "High Dune" from the...
This frame from an animation shows the evolution of a planet-forming disk around a star. Initially, the young disk...
Operators test the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Plum Brook Reactor Facility systems in the...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4...