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Technicians secure the re-entry vehicle payload adapter canister for the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an...
Technicians use a crane to mate the re-entry vehicle payload adapter canister for the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of...
Technicians prepare to lift the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) payload adapter...
Technicians prepare the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) re-entry payload adapter...
Technicians use a crane to mate the re-entry vehicle payload adapter canister for the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of...
A close-up view of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing containing the National Oceanic and...
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V interstage adapter and aft stub adapter are hoisted up at the vertical...
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V interstage adapter and aft stub adapter are hoisted up at the vertical...
The mobile service tower doors are open at Space Launch Complex-3 (SLC-3) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in...
Technicians help secure the United Launch Alliance Atlas V interstage adapter and aft stub adapter to the Atlas V...
In this view looking up, the mobile service tower doors are open at Space Launch Complex-3 (SLC-3) at Vandenberg...
This graphic depicts the Mars Climate Sounder instrument on NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter measuring the...
This illustration depicts NASA's Juno spacecraft in orbit above Jupiter. From its unique polar orbit, Juno will...
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, left, watches the launch of the National Polar-orbiting Operational...
Dr. Kathy Sullivan, center, Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and...
This Mars Global Surveyor MGS Mars Orbiter Camera MOC image shows an eroded stack of layered material in a crater of...
This artist concept depicts the Juno spacecraft which will launch from Earth in 2011 and will arrive at Jupiter in...
This artist animation illustrates how NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used radar to map the insides of the north...
This Mars Global Surveyor MGS Mars Orbiter Camera MOC image shows a spectacular summertime view of a portion of the...
Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO, have created the largest high resolution...
This Mars Global Surveyor MGS Mars Orbiter Camera MOC image shows layers and dunes in Chasma Boreale, a large...
This false-color subframe of an image from the HiRISE camera on NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the north...
This image shows numerous dark shapes and bright spots on a sand dune in the Northern polar regions of Mars. This...
This image shows numerous dark shapes and bright spots on a sand dune in the Northern polar regions of Mars. This...