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Engineers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome prepare to mate the Soyuz TMA-4 capsule with its booster rocket in preparation...
S61-02889 (1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom approaches his Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) launch vehicle to...
Open Water Lead Tim Goddard points the way to the smoke the helicopter dropped in the water, indicating the location...
Day 2 of Underway Recovery Test 9 (URT-9) put NASA’s Landing and Recovery Team through its paces as they practiced...
Engineers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome mated the Soyuz TMA-4 capsule with its booster rocket in preparation for a...
jsc2021e031158 (7/22/2021) --- A preflight view of the heat-shield on the KREPE Capsule. The Kentucky Re-Entry Probe...
iss057e059221 (11/7/2018) --- A view taken through the Harmony Node 2 nadir hatch window of the Kounotori H-II...
Orion teams perform an Orion Capsule Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) drop test using the Parachute Test Vehicle...
B59-00828 (21 Jan. 1959) --- The test subject, a rhesus monkey named Miss Sam, is seen encased in a model of the...
Curation teams process the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in a cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24,...
Orion teams perform an Orion Capsule Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) drop test using the Parachute Test Vehicle...
PHOTO DATE: 09/23/14 LOCATION: B30 MCC SUBJECT: Expedition 41 Flight Controllers on Console in FCR-1 during SpaceX...
NASA Science Officer Mike Fincke climbs out of the Soyuz capsule after the crews' final fit check at building 254 at...
Orion teams perform an Orion Capsule Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) drop test using the Parachute Test Vehicle...
S63-09630 (16 May 1963) --- The Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) "Faith 7" spacecraft, with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr....
Orion teams perform an Orion Capsule Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) drop test using the Parachute Test Vehicle...
Expedition 6 Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin, left, and Commander Ken Bowersox are greeted by Cosmonaut Talgat...
Engineers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome prepare to mate the Soyuz TMA-4 capsule with its booster rocket in preparation...
Molds for couches for test pilots, line the NASA Langley Research Centers model shop wall. The names of the test...
Jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall gives an introduction prior to her performance at the Apollo 40th anniversary...
Orion teams perform an Orion Capsule Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) drop test using the Parachute Test Vehicle...
The Apollo 11 spacecraft Command Module is photographed being lowered to the deck of the U.S.S. Hornet, prime...
Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, install test dummies into the seats of an Orion...
S61-03885 (26 April 1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, wearing the new Mercury spacesuit, stands outside...