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In the Vertical Processing Facility, TRW workers continue checking the deployment of the solar panel array (right)...
TRW technicians in the Vertical Processing Facility check the fitting of the solar panel array being attached to the...
In the Vertical Processing Facility, TRW technicians look at the point of attachment on the Chandra X-ray...
In the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), the Chandra X-ray Observatory is the object of attention of the STS-93...
In this fish-eye view, a worker oversees the movement of the Chandra X-ray Observatory into the payload bay of the...
In this fish-eye view, the Chandra X-ray Observatory rests inside the payload bay of the orbiter Columbia. Chandra...
STS093-S-013 (27 June 1999) --- In this fish-eye view, the Chandra X-ray Observatory rests inside the payload bay of...
NASA's three Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the SpitzerSpace Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray...
At a distance of 6,000 light years from Earth, the star cluster RCW 38 is a relatively close star-forming region....
This Chandra image of Jupiter shows concentrations of aurora x-rays near the north and south poles due to a single...
This Chandra image reveals, in detail, the turbulent debris created by a supernova explosion that was observed by...
This illustration of the Comet-Shoemaker/Levy collision shows the first piece of the remains of the comet crashing...
This Chandra image, the first x-ray image ever made of Venus, shows a half crescent due to the relative orientation...
Giving scientists their first look, Chandra observed x-rays produced by fluorescent radiation from oxygen atoms of...
This Chandra image shows the central regions of two colliding galaxies known collectively as the Antennae...
This Chandra image shows the central regions of two colliding galaxies known collectively as the Antennae...
The comparison from NASA Hubble telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory highlights how different the universe can...
In the Vertical Processing Facility, the Chandra X-ray Observatory is lowered toward the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS)...
In the Vertical Processing Facility, the Chandra X-ray Observatory is moved toward the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in...
In the Vertical Processing Facility, the Chandra X-ray Observatory is lowered onto the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS)...
In the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), workers check the placement of the Chandra X-ray Observatory on the stand...
Inside the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), the Chandra X-ray Observatory (top) lies in its protective container...
In the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), workers prepare the shrouded Chandra X-ray Observatory for its lift to a...
In the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), workers move the shrouded Chandra X-ray Observatory on its workstand to...