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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Shrouded with a protective cover, half of the payload fairing for the STEREO spacecraft...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers remove the protective covering from around the second of two of NASA's Solar...
Technicians at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida encapsulate NASA’s...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Shrouded with a protective cover, half of the payload fairing for the STEREO spacecraft...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Workers conduct a light test on the solar arrays on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Jim Adams (right), deputy project manager for NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility in Titusville, Fla., the Solar Dynamics...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Complex 17 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the second stage of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After its return to Launch Complex 17 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the second...
The solar arrays on the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, observatories are uncovered for an inspection in the...
Workers inspect the solar arrays on the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, observatories in the Building 1 D high...
NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen, left, and Centre National...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), the agency’s Carruthers...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., workers in the control room...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A Volga-Dnepr Antonov AN-124-100, a Ukranian/Russian aircraft, lands at the Skid Strip on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Skid Strip on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers roll the Centaur...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A light test on the solar arrays on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B, the second stage segment is lifted...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Skid Strip on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a crane lifts the Centaur...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Complex 17 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the second stage of the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Skid Strip on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers offload the Centaur...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Complex 17 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the second stage of the...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), the agency’s Carruthers...