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Enclosed in its payload fairing, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) passes by the...
Team members assist as a crane moves the Advanced Base Line Imager, the primary optical instruments, for...
A crane has been attached to the payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Operations and Checkout Bldg., STS-112 Pilot Pamela A. Melroy gets a close look...
iss070e097962 (Feb. 21, 2024) --- The NanoRacks Bishop airlock is attached to the Canadarm2 robotic arm's latching...
Preparations are underway to lift NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R), enclosed in its...
Preparations are underway to lift NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R), enclosed in its...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Inside the payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited the Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) and test stand 4693 at...
In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., senator from Ohio,...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- In the NASA payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
STS063-708-057 (6 Feb. 1995) --- Backdropped against the darkness of space, only the shiny part of Russia's Mir...
61C-05-036 (12-18 Jan. 1986) --- U.S. Representative Bill Nelson (Democrat - Florida), STS-61C payload specialist,...
Orion sits atop a transport vehicle as it departs from its home at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout...
The first of two five-panel solar arrays built for NASA’s Europa Clipper stands inside the Payload Hazardous...
Technicians work to complete operations before propellant load occurs ahead of launch for NASA’s Europa Clipper...
In the Operations and Checkout Building, suit technician George Brittingham helps STS-95 Payload Specialist John H....
Pratima Rao lectures students about materials science research in space during the U.S. Microgravity Payload-4...
ISS014-E-05118 (3 Oct. 2006) --- Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, Expedition 14 commander and NASA space station...
Enclosed in its payload fairing, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is being...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, the Joint Airlock Module is lowered toward a...
Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy joined President Trump at the White House for the signing of an Executive Order...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Operations and Checkout Building keep watch as an overhead crane is...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- In the NASA payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...