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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Jim Smodell, a technician with SGT, removes an outredgeous red lettuce leaf from a plant...
NASA image acquired May 1, 2010. As an active region rotated into view, it blew out three relatively small eruptions...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the White Room at Launch Pad 39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-130...
Morphologies, masses, and structures - oh, my! This beautiful clump of glowing gas, dark dust and glittering stars...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Brilliant flames spread light across Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Framed in the open doors of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
The robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover reached out to examine rocks in an area on Mars nicknamed the "Cratered...
Saturn's shadow stretched beyond the edge of its rings for many years after Cassini first arrived at Saturn, casting...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the International Space Station Environmental Simulator chamber at the Space Station...
Inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, a crane is used to lift the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, Matt Scott (upper right), with United Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – From left, Jim Smodell, a technician with SGT, and George Guerra, a quality control engineer...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a boom lift delivers...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis appears ghostlike in the runway lights as it touches down on...
Aerial Photograph of Glenn Research Center With Downtown Cleveland in the Distance taken from the PC-12 on June 13,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A female anhinga roosts in branches near the water. Anhingas can be found in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., technicians perform black light inspection...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis presents a ghostlike image in the runway lights as it...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first half of the payload fairing is ready to be moved around NASA's Gamma-Ray Large...
While instruments on the pallets in the payload bay observed the universe, biological experiments were performed in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Endeavour lights up the clouds over Launch Pad 39A as it lifts off from NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Endeavour lights up the predawn sky above Florida's Space Coast as it lifts off...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Concrete is poured into the trenches that will provide the foundation for the walls of the...
John Marshall, an investigator at Ames Research Center and a principal investigator in the microgravity fluid...