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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, STS-120 Commander Pamela A. Melroy sits in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers oversee the transfer of STS-103's Hubble servicing cargo from the payload...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Thermal Protection System Facility, Tim Wright, engineering manager with United...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA's twin...
Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics Flight 1....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Operations are underway to couple Florida East Coast Railway, or FEC, locomotives No. 433 and...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, right, tours the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building during a visit to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Viewed from the floor of the Vehicle Assembly Building, the redesigned External Tank is...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, STS-122 Commander Stephen Frick checks out the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- STS-123 Commander Dominic Gorie inspects the thermal protection system tile on space...
Engineers install multilayer insulation (MLI) on the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) instrument...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver addresses the audience assembled in Kennedy Space...
ISS017-E-008679 (2 June 2008) --- An overhead view of the second component of the Japan Aerospace Exploration...
ISS018-E-040792 (17 March 2009) --- Backdropped by a blanket of clouds, Space Shuttle Discovery is featured in this...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – David Beaman, NASA Space Launch System spacecraft and payload integration manager, addresses...
At Launch Pad 39B, two holes caused by hail on Space Shuttle Discovery's external tank (ET) are visible. Left of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, the redesigned External Tank to be used on Return...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, center, talks to the media in Kennedy Space Center's Operations and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-114 Mission Specialist Stephen Robinson is helped by the Closeout Crew with his...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, left, checks out NASA's first space-bound Orion capsule at NASA's...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- United Space Alliance employees prepare test articles to be used in wind tunnel...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operation's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., a crane...