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In the Payload Hazardous Service Facility, a worker looks over the re-entry capsule on top of the Stardust...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Pad 39B, the payload canister that delivered payloads launching aboard Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The astronauts for space shuttle Discovery’s STS-128 mission arrive at Kennedy Space Center’s...
Inside a mission support area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Mars 2020 Perseverance...
Engineers perform mass properties testing on the rocket-powered descent stage of NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover at...
This drill is a duplicate of the one aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. It was used in a test campaign at NASA's...
This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched...
Engineers perform mass properties testing on the rocket-powered descent stage of NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Pad 39B, STS-114 Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi (prone) inspects the...
This simulation shows the motions the robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover carried out during its first two-hour...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The American flag heralds the flight of Apollo 11, man's first lunar landing mission....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The payloads that will launch aboard Space Shuttle Discovery's Return to Flight mission...
Associate administrator of NASA's Office of International and Interagency Relations Al Condes, left, acting NASA...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Workers off-load NASA's Genesis spacecraft which arrived at the Shuttle Landing...
In the Payload Hazardous Service Facility, workers begin removing the protective plastic covering of the Stardust...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Pad 39B, STS-114 Commander Eileen Collins (right) takes a final look at the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Operations and Checkout Building OandC at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Mark...
S123-E-007816 (21 March 2008) --- Astronaut Robert L. Behnken, STS-123 mission specialist, participates in the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Operations and Checkout Building OandC at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Keith...
S123-E-007906 (21 March 2008) --- Astronaut Robert L. Behnken, STS-123 mission specialist, participates in the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa's family recently was presented with the NASA...
Kennedy Space Center’s Carolina Franco, Ph.D., collects samples from a water tank, filled with green dye, for a...
Kennedy Space Center’s Carolina Franco, Ph.D., left, and Jason Fischer collect samples from a water tank, filled...
This image of Perseverance's backshell sitting upright on the surface of Jezero Crater was collected from an...