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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, the Joint Airlock Module is lowered toward a...
Orion sits atop a transport vehicle as it departs from its home at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout...
STS058-21-011 (24 Oct 1993) --- From the flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia, astronaut William...
Research assistant Trisha Bruno performs an analysis on potato samples at Hangar L at the Cape Canaveral Air Force...
With the lights out, team members perform an optics test on the Advanced Baseline Imager, the primary optical...
Engineers and technicians completed verification and validation testing of several pneumatic systems inside and...
S89-30720 (29 March 1989) --- The spacecraft Magellan is in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis at launch pad...
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is raised to the vertical position on an “up-ender”...
ISS040-E-019300 (25 June 2014) --- In the International Space Station?s Kibo laboratory, European Space Agency...
High school students observe the progress of the Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (IDGE) during the U.S....
Technicians encapsulate NASA’s Psyche spacecraft in its payload fairings – the cone at the top of the rocket – at...
The payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is lifted up by...
STS085-312-027 (7 - 19 August 1997) --- Astronaut N. Jan Davis, payload commander, is pictured at the work station...
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited the Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) and test stand 4693 at...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, operations to...
Preparations are underway to lift the payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental...
Air Force Two lands with Vice President Mike Pence along with Congressman Robert Aderholt at the Redstone Army...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - An overhead crane carries the multi-purpose logistics module Raffaello toward a waiting...
At Hangar J, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), work is begun on the Centaur upper stage that will be used...
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited the Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) and test stand 4693 at...
Enclosed in its payload fairing, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is mated to the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Processing for mission STS-107 continues in the Operations and Checkout Building as...
Research assistant Trisha Bruno performs an analysis on potato samples at Hangar L at the Cape Canaveral Air Force...
STS046-01-019 (1 Aug 1992) --- Claude Nicollier, representing the European Space Agency (ESA) onboard the Space...