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The payload fairing for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is being prepared for the move to the...
The payload fairing for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is moved to the entrance of the Payload...
The payload fairing for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is moved inside the Payload Hazardous...
This diagram shows components of the investigations payload for NASA Mars 2020 rover mission.
From left, Firefly mission manager Marcy Mabry observes NASA engineer James Berck install the agency’s CubeSat R5...
NASA engineer Jacob Nunez-Kearny removes the foreign object debris (FOD) cover from the propulsion system on the...
From left, NASA engineer James Berck removes the foreign object debris (FOD) cover from the relative navigation...
NASA engineer Jacob Nunez-Kearny removes foreign object debris (FOD) cover from the propulsion system on the...
NASA engineer Sam Pedrotty performs final cleaning of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL’s) Extremely Low...
STS063-716-025 (9 Feb. 1995) --- In tail-to Earth mode, the Space Shuttle Discovery is backdropped against dark...
STS002-12-833 (13 Nov. 1981) --- Clouds over Earth and black sky form the background for this unique photograph from...
Orbiter payload canister being raised into the PCR at Launch Pad 39A - 1980
Canister inside the clean room of VPF with doors partially open and payload visible
Original appearance of the orbiter payload canister before painting, August 13, 1980
S85-45499 (2 Dec 1985) --- Payload specialist Robert J. Cenker.
S85-39865 (4 Sept 1985) --- Astronaut Rodolfo Neri, payload specialist
S85-39868 (1985) --- William A. Pailes (Major USAF), Payload specialist on 51J.
SpaceX CRS-25 DynaMos Payload Packaging
Penny Pettigrew chats in real time with a space station crew member conducting an experiment in microgravity some...
Stephanie Shelton, a payload communications manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, joins NASA astronauts...
STS067-713-072 (2-18 March 1995) --- This 70mm cargo bay scene, backdropped against a desert area of Namibia,...
Removal of payload from the canister to work stand in the O&C high bay, November 18, 1985
Canister open in VPF. Payload for STS-5, SBS-3, & Anik C-3, being loaded into the canister
Horizontal loading & unloading of payload canister with test weights in O&C high bay, November 12, 1980