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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Johnson Space Center Aerospace Engineer Jeff Hagen, left, and engineering intern...
The X-40 sub-scale technology demonstrator is suspended under a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter during a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts Mike Fossum and Cady Coleman, both in blue flight suits, listen as NASA's Johnson...
Ground crewmen help guide the alignment of the X-40 technology demonstrator as the experimental craft is gently...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Sunrise at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida reveals the rotating...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Workers prepare to close the arms of the vehicle stabilization system around the towering...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Workers on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida prepare the Constellation...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Workers on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida make final preparations...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The arms of the vehicle stabilization system are closed around the towering 327-foot-tall...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – As the sun rises over Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rotating...
MISSION CONTROL: And Discovery Houston with the big picture. EILEEN COLLINS: Go ahead. MISSION CONTROL: Eileen,...
On Aug. 17 and 18, 2023, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California tested the landing...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Swordtail fish (Xiphophorus helleri), like those that are part of the Neurolab payload...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Outside the massive Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- United Space Alliance workers on board the Freedom Star, one of the Shuttle Rocket...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Dr. Dirk Voeste, a scientist with Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany, examines some...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The American flag waves as the Ares I-X rocket passes by on its slow trek to Launch Pad 39B...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Ares I-X rocket heads toward Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The towering 327-foot-tall Ares I-X rocket moves away from the Vehicle Assembly Building at...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Standing tall, the Ares I-X rocket rides atop the crawler-transporter as it moves beyond the...
This cutaway illustration shows the characteristics and basic elements of the Skylab Orbiter Workshop (OWS). The OWS...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Spotlighted against the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Waves break along the Atlantic shoreline near Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Spotlighted in brilliant white, the 327-foot-tall Ares I-X rocket emerges from the Vehicle...