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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Runway lights cast a rainbow from the colors in the drag chute behind Atlantis as it...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With a rainbow serving as a backdrop in the sky, space shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With a rainbow beginning to appear in the sky, space shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – A morning hailstorm at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California leaves in its...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A rainbow completes this unique panorama of two space shuttles on the launch pads at the same...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With a rainbow serving as a backdrop in the sky, space shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on...
Crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) moves slowly along the crawlerway on its way back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (in...
On April 23, 2013 NASA’s Terra satellite passed off the coast of West Africa, allowing the Moderate Resolution...
This infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope -- called a spectrum -- tells astronomers that a distant gas...
This infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope -- called a spectrum -- tells astronomers that a distant gas...
This infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope -- called a spectrum -- tells astronomers that a distant gas...
Produced with data from NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission, this image uses two...
This video shows the SPHEREx observatory's field of view as it scans across a section of the sky, observing the...
S72-53094 (For release February 1973) --- This is the emblem for the third manned Skylab mission. It will be a...
ISS012-E-05172 (14 October 2005) --- Navajo Mountain, Utah is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- With its drag chute billowing behind, Space Shuttle Atlantis is silhouetted against...
S88-41481 (15 July 1988) --- This is the official insignia of the NASA STS-27 mission. The patch depicts the space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- This orbiter tribute of space shuttle Atlantis, or OV-104, hangs in Firing Room 4 of the...
With its drag chute billowing behind, Space Shuttle Atlantis is silhouetted against the bright lights on Runway 15,...
Technicians integrate the Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter #2 (HARP2) instrument to the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud,...
STS074-S-001 (July 1995) --- Designed by crew members, this STS-74 crew patch depicts the space shuttle Atlantis...
Showcased at the centre of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an emission-line star known as IRAS...
Technicians prepare to integrate the Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter #2 (HARP2) instrument to the Plankton,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A rainbow can be seen in the spray from the water truck traveling ahead of Space...