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Orion is revealed for one of the final times on Jan. 14, as it is lowered by crane onto its transport pallet inside...
Research scientist Vadim Rygalov describes a new low-pressure water-recycling experiment being designed to help...
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, former NASA astronaut Dan Tani, who...
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is lifted to the vertical position on an “up-ender”...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, the Joint Airlock Module is placed in a...
Research assistant Trisha Bruno performs an analysis on potato samples at Hangar L at the Cape Canaveral Air Force...
Technicians transfer the Sentinel-6B spacecraft from the NASA hangar to the Astrotech Space Operations payload...
ISS013-E-64639 (2 Aug. 2006) --- Astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams, Expedition 13 NASA space station science officer and...
Orion is buttoned up as it sits atop a transport vehicle ready to depart from its home at the Neil Armstrong...
Technicians work to complete operations before propellant load occurs ahead of launch for NASA’s Europa Clipper...
Technicians work to complete operations before propellant load occurs ahead of launch for NASA’s Europa Clipper...
Air Force Two lands with Vice President Mike Pence along with Congressman Robert Aderholt at the Redstone Army...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - An employee at the Space Station Processing Facility performs engineering certification...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside Discovery's opened payload bay, a technician installs a wiring modification...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Inside the payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
ISS013-E-64637 (2 Aug. 2006) --- Astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams, Expedition 13 NASA space station science officer and...
NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, the Joint Airlock Module is ready to be...
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is undergoing final launch preparations prior to...
A close-up view of Orion secured atop a transport vehicle as it departs from its home at the Neil Armstrong...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed...
A crane is attached to the payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S...
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) is reflected in the water at Space Launch...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Another view of the NOAA-N Prime satellite in the payload processing facility at...