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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the...
The mobile service tower is rolled back at Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, to reveal NASA's Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A specialized overhead crane lifts the Fine Guidance Sensor, or FGS, in the Payload Hazardous...
S125-E-008131 (16 May 2009) --- Astronaut Andrew Feustel, STS-125 mission specialist, positioned on a foot restraint...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Boeing workers move the second section of the fairing around the Swift spacecraft...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the three Ka-Band Objects Observation and...
The mobile service tower is rolled back at Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, to reveal NASA's Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Pad 17-A on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the wrapped...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., workers from Ball...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,...
STS043-14-034 (2-11 Aug 1991) --- Astronaut James C. Adamson is pictured executing Development Test Objective (DTO)...
This timelapse video shows the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the three Ka-Band Objects Observation and...
The mobile service tower is rolled back at Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, to reveal NASA's Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center help...
DART, short for Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous technology is NASA's newest flight demonstrator for unpiloted...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA’s Hangar AE on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Fla., technicians...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the three Ka-Band Objects Observation and...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- With the Space Launch Complex-2 (SLC-2) service tower at Vandenberg Air Force...
STS035-35-007 (2-10 Dec 1990) --- During the STS-35 mission, the Astronomy Laboratory 1 (ASTRO-1) payload, in its...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. --As the sun rises over Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United Launch...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-A , Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,...
Through Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Education Department, over 400 MSFC employees have volunteered to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA’s Hangar AE on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Fla., preparations are...