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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Smoke pours across Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida as the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An aerial view shows construction progress at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Plumes of exhaust and smoke billow around the lightning masts on Space Launch Complex 40 on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Endeavour leaps from orange-tinted smoke filling NASA Kennedy Space Center's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An aerial view shows Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A new elevator...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The 327-foot-tall Ares I-X rocket clears the door of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Discovery, installed on the mobile launcher platform atop the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Juno planetary probe, enclosed in its payload fairing, is moments away from liftoff...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A large crane dismantles another level of the fixed service structure (FSS) on Launch Pad...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Surrounded by four towering lightning masts, the 197-foot-tall United Launch Alliance Atlas...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Rising from fire and smoke, NASA's Juno planetary probe, enclosed in its payload fairing,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – As the sun falls behind Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Atop twin columns of fire, space shuttle Discovery hurtles past the lightning rod atop...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –Sitting on top of the mobile launcher platform, space shuttle Discovery arrives on Launch Pad...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-93 stack of solid rocket boosters and external tank moves toward the Vehicle...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- A large crane dismantles another section of the fixed service structure (FSS) on Launch Pad...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Poised inside Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Ares...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-127...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An aerial view shows construction progress at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Rising above the two lightning towers around the pad, a Delta IV rocket races into the sky...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- A large crane dismantles the next section of the fixed service structure (FSS) on Launch Pad...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the 327-foot-tall Ares I-X rocket awaits liftoff...