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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF), workers attach...
S85-29711 (April 1985) --- Ronald C. Epps, right of the training division in the mission operations directorate,...
Technicians encapsulate NASA’s Psyche spacecraft in its payload fairings – the cone at the top of the rocket – at...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- In the NASA payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES, has been offloaded...
Secured atop a transport vehicle, Orion moves along the route to the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, the Joint Airlock Module is placed in a...
Team members prepare for an optics test on the Advanced Baseline Imager, the primary optical instrument, on the...
Team members assist as the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is raised and prepared for...
NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed...
Technicians work to complete operations before propellant load occurs ahead of launch for NASA’s Europa Clipper...
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited the Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) and test stand 4693 at...
Engineers and technicians completed verification and validation testing of several pneumatic systems inside and...
Orion is revealed for one of the final times on Jan. 14, as it is readied atop its transport pallet from the Neil...
Team members with United Launch Alliance (ULA) inspect an clean the first half of the fairing for the Geostationary...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Operations and Checkout Bldg,, members of the STS-112 crew look over the...
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is undergoing final launch preparations prior to...
Both halves of the fairing for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) are being inspected...
Orion is buttoned up and ready to march towards the Multi-Payload Processing Facility to begin ground processing by...
Carefully packaged cargo waits on pallets inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
Managed by Marshall Space Flight Center, the Space Tug concept was intended to be a reusable multipurpose space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The payload canister, with the Joint Airlock Module inside, backs out of the...
Enclosed in its payload fairing, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is lifted into...