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The Mars 2020 rover heat shield is mated to the back shell in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy...
Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival Systems Project Manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, poses for a portrait...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, the nose of orbiter Atlantis is covered in plastic,...
S81-30501 (12 April 1981) --- Nose pointed skyward, space shuttle Columbia begins its climb toward orbit moments...
Each of the eight haunch access doors located in the mobile launcher platform contains an inspirational quote...
NASA’s Artemis II hardware, the launch vehicle stage adapter, is inside High Bay 4 on Thursday, March 20, 2025, at...
NASA Flight Surgeon Richard Scheuring watches as teams at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida practiced various...
A lightning strike is recorded at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July 2014. The...
A NASA KAMAG transporter moves the Space Launch System’s launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) to an area where...
NASA successfully tested the Orion spacecraft’s parachute system on March 16, 2018 at the U.S. Army Proving Ground...
The Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-67) lands at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California after successfully...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The heat shield tiles that will be installed to the backshell of the Orion Multi-Purpose...
ISS015-E-10854 (6 June 2007) --- During the Russian spacewalk conducted by cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition...
NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Spaceport Integration and Services organization is leading a restoration project at KARS...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) Hangar, workers secure stretch sheets of plastic...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Endeavour sits on Launch Pad 39A waiting for the Rotating Service...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The second floor of the Thermal Protection System Facility sustained significant damage...
In clean room C of Astrotech's Payload Processing Facility, a worker wearing a "bunny suit," or clean-room attire,...
The last major assembly operation to prepare Orion for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) is completed in the Launch...
Technicians remove NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft from its shipping container...
The ogive panels protect Orion's crew module from harsh acoustic conditions at launch and in case of an abort....
Each of the eight haunch access doors located in the mobile launcher platform contains an inspirational quote...
Astronaut Rex Walheim spoke at the USA Science and Engineering Festival on April 25, 2014. The event was held to...
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – A technician removes protective Mylar wrapping from NASA's IRIS spacecraft in a clean room...