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What do two Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters plus one External Tank equal? Enough thrust to power Space Shuttle...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A tug boat begins towing the barge containing an External Tank (ET) to Port Canaveral....
This photo shows the instrumentation and equipment inside the Spacewedge #3, a remotely-piloted research vehicle...
ISS033-E-018499 (7 Nov. 2012) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Aki Hoshide, Expedition 33 flight...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Vehicle Assembly Building, the mating of upper and lower segments of the...
iss053e047057 (Sept. 26, 2017) --- Flight Engineer Joe Acaba installs botany gear for the Veggie facility to...
iss070e130299 (March 29, 2024) --- Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara conducts leak...
iss034e065939 (3/11/2013) --- A view of the Biological Research In Canisters-17 - A and B actuation (BRIC-17). BRIC...
This artist's concept from 1970 shows a Nuclear Shuttle taking on fuel from an orbiting Liquid Hydrogen Depot. As...
iss034e065948 (3/11/2013) --- A view of the Biological Research In Canisters-17 - A and B actuation (BRIC-17). BRIC...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, Center Director Jim Kennedy takes a turn on a screw...
What's going on with the hole in the ozone layer? Thanks to a global effort to regulate ozone-depleting substances,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Black storm clouds hang over the Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Control Center,...
JSC2001-E-08331 (22 March 2001) --- Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, Expedition One flight engineer, speaks to a crowd...
iss034e065937 (3/11/2013) --- A view of the Biological Research In Canisters-17 - A and B actuation (BRIC-17). BRIC...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, Center Director Jim Kennedy pauses in his “bunny...
JSC2006-E-28463 (18 July 2006) --- Astronaut Steven W. Lindsey (left), STS-121 commander, and flight director Steve...
art001e002164 (Dec. 5, 2022): Cameras mounted on the crew module of the Orion spacecraft captured these views of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Under a worker’s watchful eyes in the Orbiter Processing Facility, Center Director Jim...
The DC-8 aircraft returns to the hangar at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale,...
NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft launched from the center’s launch pad 39B for the Artemis I mission...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building, the external tank is loaded onto the barge...
STS114-S-049 (9 August 2005) --- The sun rises on the Space Shuttle Discovery as it rests on the runway at Edwards...
iss069e082306 (Aug. 23, 2023) --- UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Sultan...