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This image of Perseverance's backshell and parachute was collected from an altitude of 26 feet (8 meters) by the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA Kennedy Space Center, STS-121 Mission...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Genesis spacecraft is lifted out of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Genesis project crew stands in front of the spacecraft for a media showing in the...
OSIRIS-REx will visit a Near Earth asteroid called Bennu and return with samples that may hold clues to the origins...
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency’s Origins,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- At Launch Complex 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the second part of the...
The Mars 2020 rover undergoes processing inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, fifth from left, speaks with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...
Ian Clark walks past mission countdown clocks in the Perseverance offices at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolls out of the Vertical Integration Facility on its way to Space Launch...
ISS042E290579 (02/27/2015) --- On Feb. 27 2015, a series of CubeSats, small experimental satellites, were deployed...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- An S-band medium gain antenna is installed on NASA's Genesis spacecraft in the Payload...
Inside the Microbiology Lab at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 6, 2021, Microbiologist Aaron Curry...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Randy Scott, with Lockheed Martin Astronautics, looks over the Stardust...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers work at removing the Stardust solar panels for testing. The...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The second stage of a Delta II rocket rises up the gantry on Launch Complex 17-A, Cape...
Liftoff of OSIRA United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air...
Team members prepare to attach a Centaur upper stage to the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket first stage...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers lift the cover from the crate...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaks to members of the press after unveiling the first public display of a sample...
From left to right, Smithsonian Under Secretary for Science and Research Ellen Stofan, National Museum of Natural...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaks to members of the press after unveiling the first public display of a sample...
Video file for media and public use. Final preparations are underway for NASA’s Perseverance rover to collect the...