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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians secure the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians check the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- At SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral, Fla., members of the STS-107 crew discuss the experiments...
STS-85 Mission Specialist Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. looks down at his glove as a suit technician helps him with the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., workers move the platform...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians apply the NOAA...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane in the Operations and Checkout Building hovers over the Joint...
NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque...
ISS025-E-009310 (26 Oct. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, Expedition 25 flight engineer, works on the...
A view from above shows the payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S...
Team members monitor progress as an overhead crane lowers the GOES-R spacecraft toward its work stand inside the...
Matthew Koss lectures middle-school students about materials science research in space during the U.S. Microgravity...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Another view of the NOAA-N Prime satellite in the payload processing facility at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, STS-122 Mission Specialist Rex Walheim reaches...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Rolling out of NASA's Super Guppy aircraft aboard a payload transporter is a port-side...
STS084-304-004 (15-24 May 1997) --- Astronaut Edward T. Lu (left) gets an early start on transfer operations in the...
Orion sits atop a transport vehicle as it departs from its home at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout...
An overhead crane lifts the GOES-R spacecraft to move it into its work stand inside the Astrotech payload processing...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Ted Hartka, MESSENGER lead mechanical engineer, with The Johns Hopkins University...
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is undergoing final launch preparations prior to...
Preparations are underway to lift NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R), enclosed in its...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The payload canister, with the Joint Airlock Module inside, backs out of the...
Chemical Engineer David Rinderknecht prepares the Orbital Syngas Commodity Augmentation Reactor (OSCAR) for thermal...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - An employee at the Space Station Processing Facility performs engineering certification...