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SpaceX technicians encapsulate NASA's Psyche spacecraft into the the payload fairings at the Astrotech Space...
S94-40916 (5 July 1994) --- Workers in the Operations and Checkout Building are transporting the Lidar In-Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, the cargo of NASA's Super Guppy...
Technicians prepare load cargo into the Orbital ATK Cygnus pressurized module during late stowage operations inside...
Team members assist as the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is prepared for lifting to the...
ISS025-E-009308 (26 Oct. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, Expedition 25 flight engineer, works on the...
Orion is buttoned up as it sits atop a transport vehicle ready to depart from its home at the Neil Armstrong...
Enclosed in its payload fairing, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) arrives at the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, an overhead crane lifts the P3 Integrated...
A view from above shows a crane attached to the payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational...
ISS040-E-019307 (25 June 2014) --- In the International Space Station?s Kibo laboratory, European Space Agency...
Air Force Two lands with Vice President Mike Pence along with Congressman Robert Aderholt at the Redstone Army...
Team members assist as the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is raised and prepared for...
At Hangar J, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), work is begun on the Centaur upper stage that will be used...
Orion sits atop a transport vehicle as it departs from its home at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Joint Airlock Module is suspended by an overhead crane in the Operations and...
Chemical Engineer David Rinderknecht prepares the Orbital Syngas Commodity Augmentation Reactor (OSCAR) for thermal...
In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-95 Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, with the National Space Development...
Viewed from above in the Space Station Processing Facility are equipment and several future payloads on Shuttle...
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is undergoing final launch preparations prior to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Processing for mission STS-107 continues in the Operations and Checkout Building as...
Team members are securing the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) in the vertical position on...
S84-26333 (6 Feb 1984) --- Robert E. Castle, integrated communications officer (INCO), is seated at the INCO console...
jsc2024e062114 (9/13/2024) --- The ANT1 Radiation Tolerance Experiment with Moss in Orbit on the Space Station...