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Astronaut Shannon Walker prepares to release a weather balloon from the deck of the USS Portland ahead of the...
iss064e030014 (February 8, 2021) --- NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover work on configuration and opening...
PHOTO DATE: 09/23/14 LOCATION: B30 MCC SUBJECT: Expedition 41 Flight Controllers on Console in FCR-1 during SpaceX...
S63-06435 (15-16 May 1963) --- Part of the Ganges delta near Calcutta, as photographed from the Mercury-Atlas 9...
The Soyuz TMA-4 capsule is prepared for mating with its booster rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in preparation for...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Workers begin de-stacking a mock Orion capsule and service module in the Vehicle Assembly...
S88-31382 (5 May 1961) --- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard receives assistance in removing his spacesuit while on the U.S....
Engineers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome prepare to mate the Soyuz TMA-4 capsule with its booster rocket in preparation...
Orion teams perform an Orion Capsule Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) drop test using the Parachute Test Vehicle...
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, far right, tours the Blue Origin facilities near the agency’s Kennedy Space...
S61-02821 (21 July 1961) --- Attempted recovery of Mercury spacecraft at end of the Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4)...
Orion teams perform an Orion Capsule Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) drop test using the Parachute Test Vehicle...
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday,...
PHOTO DATE: 09/23/14 LOCATION: B30 MCC SUBJECT: Expedition 41 Flight Controllers on Console in FCR-1 during SpaceX...
Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, install test dummies into the seats of an Orion...
Expedition 10 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Salizhan Sharipov sits in a chair after being pulled out of the...
Engineers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome prepare to mate the Soyuz TMA-4 capsule with its booster rocket in preparation...
This illustration shows NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) in powered flight. The MAV will carry tubes containing...
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, second from right in the blue shirt, tours the Blue Origin facilities near the...
Day 2 of Underway Recovery Test 9 (URT-9) put NASA’s Landing and Recovery Team through its paces as they practiced...
NASA’s Landing and Recovery team practice bringing a test version of the Orion capsule into the well deck of a Navy...
This illustration shows NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), which will carry tubes containing Martian rock and soil...
This is an artist's concept of the X-38 Crew Return Vehicle (CRV). The X-38 will take place of the Russian Soyuz...
S61-01914 (5 May 1961) --- Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spaceflight Earth observations of a cloudy Earth surface. There...