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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The first half of the fairing is moved into place around the NOAA-N Prime...
At Launch Pad 39B, the top of the external tank (ET) mated to Space Shuttle Discovery is dotted with nearly a dozen...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the early morning daylight, the payload canister containing the Chandra X-ray...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
Workers inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Florida, move the first half of the United...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, half of...
NASA engineers install test hardware for the agency's new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, into a newly...
Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida work to safely return the Artemis I Orion spacecraft to the...
Both halves of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing come together around the Solar Orbiter spacecraft...
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner prepares for acoustic testing at Boeing’s spacecraft test facilities in El Segundo,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In high bay 4 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., spacecraft technicians close...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, a crane hoists the Atlas payload fairing enclosing the Juno...
NASA engineers install test hardware for the agency's new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, into a newly...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Workers secure the installation of the fairing around NASA's Orbiting Carbon...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The second half of the fairing is prepared for installation around NASA's...
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is prepared for encapsulation in the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing...
Marshall Space Flight Center Director Todd May (left) presents Vice President Mike Pence (center) with a Space...
One of two Artemis I aft skirts for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s twin solid rocket boosters crosses a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Shrouded with a protective cover, half of the payload fairing for the STEREO spacecraft...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA's twin...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In high bay 4 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a...