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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Photographer Joel Powell, with Spaceflight Magazine, captures a closeup of NASA's Lunar...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– Space shuttle Endeavour is silhouetted against the dawn pink sky on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Billows of smoke and steam infused with the fiery light from space shuttle Endeavour's launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Waves break along the Atlantic shoreline near Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Rising on columns of fire from amid the smoke and steam below, Space Shuttle Discovery...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the emergency egress system that was part of...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the emergency egress system that was part of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The crawler transporter, with its cargo of Space Shuttle Discovery and mobile launcher...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-127...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Spotlighted in brilliant white, the 327-foot-tall Ares I-X rocket emerges from the Vehicle...
In this annotated, graphic of Jupiter, small, bright "pop-up" clouds rise above the surrounding features in this...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Discovery is silhouetted against the dawn sky as it rolls out to Launch Pad 39A...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rises above the lightning masts on Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis, atop the mobile launcher platform and crawler-transporter,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-93 stack of solid rocket boosters and external tank nears the Vehicle Assembly...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off past the lightning masts on Space Launch...
Space shuttle Atlantis (left) and space shuttle Endeavour are seen on Launch Pads 39A and 39B, respectively, at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Pad 39A, the payload canister with the SPACEHAB Double Module and Integrated...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Ares I-X rocket, secured to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Moments after liftoff on mission STS-120, space shuttle Discovery's solid rocket...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, two large cranes will assist in the removal of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Discovery sits on Launch Pad 39B for launch of mission STS-116. On the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Lightning streaks across the sky above satellite trucks at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-127...