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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The payload canister containing the Italian-built U.S. Node 2 module, called Harmony,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- With red umbilical lines attached, the payload containing space shuttle Discovery's S6 truss...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- With umbilical lines still attached, the payload canister containing the Italian-built...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The payload canister containing the S6 truss and solar arrays arrives at Launch Pad 39A at...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The payload canister containing the S6 truss and solar arrays arrives at Launch Pad 39A at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The payload canister containing the first section of the Japan Aerospace Exploration...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The payload canister containing the S6 truss and solar arrays arrives at Launch Pad 39A at...
STS046-102-021 (1 Aug 1992) --- The European Space Agency's (ESA) EURECA satellite remains in the grasp of the Space...
STS003-09-444 (22-30 March 1982) --- The darkness of space provides the backdrop for this scene of the plasma...
STS060-74-054 (3-11 Feb 1994) --- The Wake Shield Facility (WSF) is held in the grasp of Discovery's Remote...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of the STS-85 flight crew examine the Manipulator Flight Demonstraton (MFD)...
S81-30630 (February 1981) --- This "cutaway" artist's concept exercises some artistic license to reveal systems of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2, workers check the movement...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)...
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS -- STS-31 ONBOARD SCENE -- This photograph was taken by the STS-31 crew aboard...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, a crane lowers the Shuttle Radar Topography...
In this 1989 artist's concept, the Shuttle-C floats in space with its cargo bay doors open. As envisioned by...
This fish-eye view of the Unity connecting module reveals its immense size relative to the workers (below right)....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Orbiter Processing Facility-2 (OPF-2) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Orbiter Processing Facility-2 (OPF-2) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
At Launch Pad 39A, orbiter Endeavour's open payload bay doors, reflecting the surrounding light, reveal the payload...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Employees monitor payload canister #2 as it rolls out of the high bay of the Canister...