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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - An employee at the Space Station Processing Facility monitors engineering certification...
S92-27865 (23 Sept 1991) --- In test stand 3 of the Operations and Checkout Building high bay, workers complete...
The GOES-R spacecraft is revealed following its uncrating inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in...
Saturn 1 Launch summary of research and development flights and operational flights. NASA's initial development plan...
Enclosed in its payload fairing, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is being...
The payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) was lifted up by...
Orion sits atop a transport vehicle as it departs from its home at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - From the floor of the Operations and Checkout Bldg,, members of the STS-112 crew look...
The GOES-R spacecraft is secured on its work stand inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville,...
Ryan Kiechle of Jacobs Technology gives a thumbs-up inside the transporter with Orion secured atop as the spacecraft...
In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr. pulls on a glove, part of his...
The payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is lifted up by...
Technicians encapsulate NASA’s Psyche spacecraft in its payload fairings – the cone at the top of the rocket – at...
Principal investigator, Dr. Janine Captain, attaches a mass spectrometer sensor to electronics inside a vacuum...
Team members prepare the Advanced Base Line Imager, the primary optical instrument, for installation on the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF), the overhead...
S84-26297 (3 Feb 1984) --- Robert E. Castle, Integrated Communications Officer (INCO), plays an important role in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Operations and Checkout Building keep watch as an overhead crane is...
Secured atop a transport vehicle, Orion moves along the route to the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) on...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Inside the payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the latest...
Team members assist as a crane lifts the Advanced Base Line Imager, the primary optical instrument, for installation...
Team members with United Launch Alliance (ULA) inspect the first half of the fairing for the Geostationary...
STS085-316-026 (7 - 19 August 1997) --- Wearing a head band representing the Manipulator Flight Demonstration (MFD)...