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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Engineers and technicians prepare NASA's Project Morpheus prototype lander for free flight...
KODIAK ISLAND, ALASKA - A transporter moves the encapsulated Kodiak Star spacecraft into position in the Launch...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., technicians help guide the STEREO...
Painting of the NASA logo, also called the meatball, continues on the 525-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)...
A scrub jay perches on a branch near the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis moves through the open door of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Orbital Sciences’ L-1011 aircraft takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a Vehicle Assembly Building technician adjusts a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, the payload bay doors on Atlantis are being closed...
The L-1011 aircraft carrying a Pegasus XL rocket with NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) attached...
The second X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) technology demonstrator completed its first flight on November...
KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Marshall Islands - The lights of Orbital Sciences' L-1011 "Stargazer" aircraft illuminates the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the payload changeout room on Launch Pad 39B, STS-116 Commander Mark Polansky looks...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA Project Morpheus prototype lander and support equipment are being transported to the...
KODIAK ISLAND, Alaska -- The fueled Orbit Adjust Model (OAM), which navigates payloads into the correct orbit, is...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-133 Pilot Eric Boe takes a break on the Shuttle Landing Facility runway from performing...
The abort motor for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, is offloaded from a heavy transport truck inside the Launch Abort...
KODIAK ISLAND, Alaska -- Technicians lower the fueled Orbit Adjust Model (OAM), which navigates payloads into the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a large yellow, metal sling lifts shuttle...
This NASA Dryden Flight Research Center DC-8 takes off from Patrick Air Force Base to pursue its goal of collecting...
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission will take NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace...
STS101-S-015 (19 May 2000) --- Flames from the solid rocket boosters light up the clouds of smoke and steam trailing...
Painting of the NASA logo, also called the meatball, continues on the 525-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the payload changeout room on Launch Pad 39B, STS-115 crew members look over the...