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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A NASA plane takes off from Patrick Air Force Base in Florida on a hurricane relief...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- During emergency escape training at Launch Pad 39A, STS-100 Pilot Jeffrey S. Ashby...
Engineers and controllers in a mobile control room prepare for flight number 15 of NASA's Project Morpheus prototype...
A worker at the Shuttle Landing Facility checks over STS-103 Pilot Scott J. Kelly (front) and Mission Specialist...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a large yellow, metal sling lifts shuttle...
The final countdown to the Aura Launch is now underway. The spacecraft was driven out to the pad and lifted to the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – This is an aerial view of the long Shuttle Landing Facility SLF runway at NASA's Kennedy...
ISS023-E-032398 (4 May 2010) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, Expedition 23...
Technicians secure Northrop Grumman's Pegasus XL rocket, containing NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON),...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A tricolored heron, finding himself a little camera-shy, takes flight over the water off...
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Operations Support Building II, Dr. Eugene Parker, a pioneer in heliophysics and S....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the payload changeout room on Launch Pad 39B, STS-115 crew members look over the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the payload changeout room on Launch Pad 39B, STS-115 crew members look over the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a large yellow, metal sling lifts shuttle...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Pilot Steve Fossett (facing camera, left) and Sir Richard Branson (second from right)...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – This is an aerial view of the long Shuttle Landing Facility SLF runway at NASA's Kennedy...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- With the fairing door off, Orbital Science's Jose Castillo and Mark Neuse...
As daylight creeps over the horizon, STS-95 Space Shuttle Discovery, on the Mobile Launch Platform, arrives at...
STS-88 Mission Commander Robert D. Cabana (left) and Pilot Frederick W. "Rick" Sturckow (right) take their seats in...
Applied Physics Laboratory engineers and technicians from Johns Hopkins University test solar array deployment of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Lynda Weatherman, President of the Economic...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, with the orbiter Columbia strapped to its...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off at 6:11:10 a.m. EDT, challenging dawn as it lights up...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - One of the shuttle training aircraft takes off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's...