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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Rotating Service Structure at Launch Pad 39A rolls back, revealing the Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- An early morning shot of the Space Shuttle Discovery on the Mobile Launcher Platform...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- An early morning shot of the Space Shuttle Discovery on the Mobile Launcher Platform...
Commentator George Diller interviews Martin Davis, NOAA-N Program Manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center...
An early (1983) photograph of the AFTI F-16 team, commemorating the aircraft's 50th flight. It shows the initial...
S130-E-006306 (9 Feb. 2010) --- Astronaut George Zamka, STS-130 mission commander, retrieves a drawer of food on the...
As shown in this photo of the HL-10 flight simulator, the lifting-body pilots and engineers made use of early...
S130-E-006294 (9 Feb. 2010) --- Astronaut Kathryn Hire, STS-130 mission specialist, floats on the middeck of the...
S130-E-006308 (9 Feb. 2010) --- Astronaut Terry Virts, STS-130 pilot, is pictured on the middeck of the...
S130-E-006300 (9 Feb. 2010) --- Astronaut Nicholas Patrick, STS-130 mission specialist, checks equipment and...
jsc2022e083566 (5/20/2022) --- The MIT Space Exploration Initiative team tests an early Extrusion payload hardware...
STS-92 Mission Specialists Michael Lopez-Alegria (center) and Jeff Wisoff (right) check out the Integrated Truss...
STS-92 Mission Specialists Michael Lopez-Alegria (center) and Jeff Wisoff (right) check out the Integrated Truss...
S78-34917 (31 Aug. 1978) --- Just about to don his helmet and enter JSC?s shuttle engineering mock-up/trainer is...
On a workstand in the Space Station Processing Facility, workers release the S-band Antenna Support Assembly (SASA)...
NASA’s 2017 astronaut candidates toured aircraft hangar at Armstrong Flight Research Center, in Southern California...
Since she was a little girl, Carrie Anderson has wanted to be an astronomer. Now, as a space scientist at NASA...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The STS-92 crew happily wave to onlookers as they gather gather outside the gate to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The STS-92 crew happily wave to onlookers as they gather gather outside the gate to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, STS-92 Pilot Pamela A. Melroy gets a close...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, members of the STS-92 crew get hands-on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-92 crew pose in front of the Integrated Truss Structure Z1, an element of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, members of the STS-92 crew get a close look...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, members of the STS-92 crew get hands-on...