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At the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, the first night of Holidays in Space 2017 ended with a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A worker makes adjustments on the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft during...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers prepare the Pegasus XL launch vehicle for re-mate with the Galaxy Evolution...
The optical bench for the Fluids Integrated Rack section of the Fluids and Combustion Facility (FCF) is shown...
Mechanical technicians crane lift the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) onto the Tilt Mechanism. OCI is a highly advanced...
ISS036-E-035163 (22 Aug. 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, attired in a...
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas wears AR (Augmented Reality) display technology during an advanced technology run in...
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas wears AR (Augmented Reality) display technology during a nighttime advanced technology...
A red light confirms that the fiber of the Fiber Optic Sensing System installed on the Mock Truss-Braced Wing...
The Advanced Base Line Imager, the primary optical instrument, has been installed on the Geostationary Operational...
ISS036-E-035126 (22 Aug. 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, attired in a...
art001e000735 - On flight day 10, NASA’s Orion spacecraft captured imagery of the Moon while in a distant retrograde...
ISS022-E-041767 (28 Jan. 2010) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, Expedition 22...
At the launch pad perimeter camera site at Launch Complex 39B, Robert Page (pointing), chair of the NASA Intercenter...
Team members install the Advanced Base Line Imager, the primary optical instrument, on the Geostationary Operational...
Carolyn Mizell, chief of the Research and Technology Management Office at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is...
iss073e0548503 (Aug. 28, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedtion 73 Flight Engineer Mike Fincke displays the...
jsc2023e054753 (9/27/2023) --- Optical Coherence tomography image demonstrating the retinal ultrastructure of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle stands ready to launch NASA’s Swift...
art001e000736 - On flight day 10, NASA’s Orion spacecraft captured imagery of the Moon while in a distant retrograde...
ISS040-E-072156 (21 July 2014) --- In the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory, NASA astronaut Reid...
At the launch pad perimeter camera site at Launch Complex 39B, news media representatives are briefed on the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle stands ready to launch NASA’s Swift...
ISS038-E-042754 (5 Feb. 2014) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight...