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ISS040-E-019299 (25 June 2014) --- In the International Space Station?s Kibo laboratory, European Space Agency...
The first of two five-panel solar arrays built for NASA’s Europa Clipper stands inside the Payload Hazardous...
Research assistant Trisha Bruno performs an analysis on potato samples at Hangar L at the Cape Canaveral Air Force...
ISS040-E-019312 (25 June 2014) --- In the International Space Station?s Kibo laboratory, European Space Agency...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Processing for mission STS-107 continues in the Operations and Checkout Building as...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - An overhead crane lowers the multi-purpose logistics module Raffaello into a payload...
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited the Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) and test stand 4693 at...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket arrives at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) has been secured in the vertical position on an...
iss068e017746 (Oct. 21, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration...
Team members with United Launch Alliance (ULA) inspect the first half of the fairing for the Geostationary...
The GOES-R spacecraft is inspected after being uncrated and raised to vertical inside the Astrotech payload...
Orion is buttoned up and ready to march towards the Multi-Payload Processing Facility to begin ground processing by...
Team members monitor progress as the GOES-R spacecraft is lifted from horizontal to vertical inside the Astrotech...
iss070e097971 (Feb. 21, 2024) --- The NanoRacks Bishop airlock is attached to the Canadarm2 robotic arm's latching...
Orion sits atop a transport vehicle as it departs from its home at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane in the Operations and Checkout Building hovers over the Joint...
Orion is revealed for one of the final times on Jan. 14, as it is moved by crane to its transport pallet inside the...
Visiting scientist Cheryl Frazier monitors a prototype composting machine in Hangar L at the Cape Canaveral Air...
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, former NASA astronaut Dan Tani, who...
A view from high up inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force...
STS035-10-011 (2-10 Dec 1990) --- STS-35 Mission Specialist (MS) Robert A.R. Parker operates Astronomy Laboratory 1...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside Discovery's opened payload bay, a technician installs a wiring modification...
Secured atop a transport vehicle, Orion moves along the route to the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) on...