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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Under workers’ watchful eyes in the Orbiter Processing Facility, Center Director Jim...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the payload bay...
art001e002071 (Dec. 5, 2022) On flight day 20 of the Artemis I mission, Orion captured the Moon on the day of return...
This 1971 artist's concept shows the Nuclear Shuttle in both its lunar logistics configuraton and geosynchronous...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Black storm clouds roll in over the Vehicle Assembly Building, bringing thunder and...
iss065e009613 (April 30, 2021) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Victor Glover is pictured...
This illustration shows NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) in powered flight. The MAV will carry tubes containing...
Expedition 35 Russian Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) greets his...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Center Director Jim Kennedy is ready to exit Endeavour after watching and talking to...
Following its landing on June 22, 2007, the Space Shuttle Atlantis is towed from the runway at Edwards Air Force...
Women dressed in traditional Kazak clothing pose for a photo after presenting the returning Expedition 9 and taxi...
art001m1203391710 (Dec. 5, 2022) On flight day 20, Orion captured the crescent Earth in the distance as the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Twin Solid Rocket Boosters are stacked on a Mobile Launcher Platform inside the Vehicle...
iss068e039389 (Jan. 9, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing Facility, bay 3, workers clean the...
Mike Kostelnik, deputy associate administrator, Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs, addresses...
S26-31-012 (29 Sept. 1988) ) --- Discovery was used for NASA's Return to Flight Mission following the Challenger...
A photographer focuses on part of the tracking telescope that provides optical support for launches from KSC and...
JSC2007-E-023806 (12 May 2007) --- Following the Expedition 14 crew return at Ellington Field, cosmonaut Mikhail...
iss065e364787 (Sept. 9, 2021) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Shane Kimbrough removes older...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - An external tank is lowered into a horizontal position in the transfer aisle of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A tug boat tows the barge containing an External Tank (ET) to Port Canaveral. There one...
JSC2002-E-26038 (21 June 2002) --- Astronaut Carl E. Walz, Expedition Four flight engineer, speaks from the lectern...
Marshall's fifth Center Director, James R. Thompson (1986-1989), in the control room of the Solid Rocket Booster...