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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After being lowered close enough to the ground from the mate_demate device, Discovery’s...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the hoist is ready...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Underneath the 26.3-foot vertical tail structure of Space Shuttle Atlantis (above...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The shuttle carrier aircraft, or SCA, and its piggyback passenger Atlantis are towed...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – After a two-day trip from California, the wheels of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Orbiter Atlantis is towed to the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 along the tow-way....
Viewed from the rear, the orbiter Atlantis heads toward the open doors of the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After sunset, Space Shuttle Atlantis is bathed in light from the fixed service...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Edwards Air Force Base in California, space shuttle Atlantis is lowered from the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This closeup shows Space Shuttle Atlantis as it begins rolling out of the Vehicle...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Underneath the 26.3-foot vertical tail structure of Space Shuttle Atlantis (above...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Looking like a comet with a tail of smoky exhaust, Boeing's Delta II rocket hurtles...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After sunset, Space Shuttle Atlantis is bathed in light from the fixed service...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the early morning hours at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility, the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Media gather at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility to watch the arrival of the orbiter...
STS002-13-208 (12-14 Nov. 1981) --- This clear view of the aft section of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Before dawn, at the Shuttle Landing Facility, or SLF, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – With its aerodynamic tail cone in place, the space shuttle Endeavour backs out of Bay 2 of...
iss074e0540224 (April 27, 2026) --- A piece of unidentified space debris is pictured from the International Space...
As of mid-November, ISON is officially upon us. Using Hubble, we've taken our closest look yet at the innermost...
A bright blue tadpole appears to swim through the inky blackness of space. Known as IRAS 20324+4057, but dubbed "the...
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission concluded its study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Sept. 30,...
The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the newest camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, has captured a spectacular...