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The seventh mission dedicated to the Department of Defense (DOD), the STS-38 mission, launched aboard the Space...
The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) is seen in the waters of the Pacific Ocean during NASA’s Underway Recovery Test...
Members of NASA’s Landing and Recovery team are seen as they recover the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full...
STS027-S-005 (Dec 2, 1988) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched from Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Pad 39-B at 9:30...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - U.S. Representative Tom Feeney addresses attendees at the annual Congressional Dinner...
Members of NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team and partners from the Department of Defense...
STS039-09-036 (28 April-6 May 1991) --- Astronaut Charles L. (Lacy) Veach monitors experiment data on the aft flight...
STS-28 Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, Commander Brewster H. Shaw, wearing navy blue flight coveralls and...
Lisa Seiler, Artemis Landing and Recovery deputy director, works inside the Landing Force Operations Center onboard...
The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, sits nestled in its cradle during...
The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, is seen during Underway Recovery...
Teams work around the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, as it sits...
Liliana Villarreal, Artemis II Landing and Recovery Director, of NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and...
In 2022, we launched our mega Moon rocket for the first time – sending the uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the...
Teams work on the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, as it sits nestled...
The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, sits nestled in its cradle during...
The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) is seen in the waters of the Pacific Ocean during NASA’s Underway Recovery Test...
Photo (part of time lapse) taken during Celestial Immunity Plate Second Sampling in the Japanese Experiment Module...
NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, right, speaks to NASA astronauts Andre Douglas and Deniz Burnham...
The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) is seen in the waters of the Pacific Ocean during NASA’s Underway Recovery Test...
S127-E-012895 (30 July 2009) --- A Department of Defense pico-satellite known as Atmospheric Neutral Density...
Members of NASA’s Landing and Recovery team are seen as they recover the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full...
NASA, Department of Defense personnel from Detachment 3 out of Patrick Air Force Base, and the Mobile Diving Salvage...
Members of NASA’s Landing and Recovery team are seen as they recover the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full...