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Members of the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Ascent Abort-2 management and engineering team contributed to...
A suit technician prepares for a pressure test of Boeing's new spacesuit designed to be worn by astronauts flying on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The External Tank (ET) designated to fly on Return to Flight mission STS-114 is lifted...
NASA and SpaceX technicians safely encapsulate NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft in...
The Artemis I aft skirts for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s twin solid rocket boosters are moved along...
jsc2020e030484 (4/20/2020) --- A preflight image sequence from terrestrial experiments with two vertically oriented...
Crews prepare to move NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft from the Multi-Payload Processing Facility to the Launch...
S88-29076 (10 Jan 1988) --- KSC employees work together to carefully guide a 7,000 pound main engine into the number...
STS-85 Payload Specialist Bjarni V. Tryggvason poses in the white room at Launch Pad 39A with his ascent/reentry...
NASA and SpaceX technicians safely encapsulate NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A truck positions a full-size display of a space shuttle external fuel tank from the Kennedy...
JSC2002-E-08144 (1 March 2002) --- Good news concerning the anticipated launch of STS-109 reaches the Spacecraft...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Vehicle Assembly Building, the External Tank (ET) designated to fly on Return to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, workers check the hatch opening on the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance...
A massive crane lowers the launch vehicle stage adapter onto the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage on Thursday,...
STS-85 Commander Curtis L. Brown, Jr., is assisted with his ascent/reentry flight suit by a white room crew member...
S94-40090 (23 June 1994) --- Astronauts Donald R. McMonagle, left, and Curtis L. Brown man the commander's and...
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...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians move the first half...
A massive crane lifts the launch vehicle stage adapter 250 feet into the air on Thursday, April 3, 2025, to prepare...