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The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage is seen in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at...
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems completed installation of two ogive fairings onto the launch abort...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Boeing workers move the second section of the fairing around the Swift spacecraft...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., the second half of the Delta...
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems completed installation of two ogive fairings onto the launch abort...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance...
Engineers and technicians moved the Orion service module test article into the Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility at...
Seen here is a close-up view of the Space Launch System’s (SLS) RS-25 engines as teams with NASA’s Exploration...
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs lower the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage –...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, work is...
NASA engineers install test hardware for the agency's new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, into a newly...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the eighth tower segment of a new mobile launcher,...
Workers inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Florida, move the first half of the United...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
Workers have offloaded the abort motor for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission from a heavy transport truck inside the Launch...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Inside a protected clean room tent on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery begins its ascent into the predawn sky over Launch Pad 39A at NASA's...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Cranes remove a full-size, 149-foot-long, space shuttle solid rocket booster, or SRB, replica...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The aft segment of a Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) is ready to roll out of the Rotation...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery begins its ascent into the predawn sky over Launch Pad 39A at NASA's...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The second Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) has been installed on the orbiter Discovery...
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs rotate the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage –...