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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...
NASA is getting closer to the first flight of the Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System rocket as part of...
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs lift the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage –...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The second half of the fairing, at right, is moved closer to NASA's Orbiting...
NASA engineers install test hardware for the agency's new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, into a newly...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, the External Tank (ET) designated for the Return...
S71-41759 (2 Aug. 1971) --- A partial view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control...
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II rocket with NASA's THEMIS spacecraft aboard begins its ascent from...
Engineers and technicians moved the Orion service module test article into the Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility at...
At Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, workers guide the ascent of a Centaur rocket up the launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A large truck hauls a full-size, 149-foot-long, space shuttle solid rocket booster, or SRB,...
STS071-S-074 (4 July 1995) --- This view of the space shuttle Atlantis during its move away from Russia's Mir Space...
NASA engineers install test hardware for the agency's new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, into a newly...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, the Atlas rocket stacked inside the Vertical Integration...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery majestically begins its ascent into the predawn sky at Launch Pad 39A...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., preparations are under way to...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The fairing for NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, awaits...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, spacecraft...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Workers check the movement of the fairing at right toward NASA's Orbiting...
Engineers and technicians moved the Orion service module test article into the Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In preparation for launch, Orbital Sciences Corporation technicians at Vandenberg AFB...