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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- After being dropped from the L-1011 aircraft at 3:14 p.m. EST over the Atlantic Ocean,...
NASA image acquired October 23, 2009. At NASA’s Dryden Research Center in California, a group of engineers,...
The mural was created to celebrate the achievements of Wilbur and Orville Wright and to commemorate a century of...
S72-49482 (November 1972) --- The Optical Recorder of the Lunar Sounder Experiment (S-209) which will be mounted in...
S72-53472 (November 1972) --- An artist's concept illustrating how radar beams of the Apollo 17 lunar sounder...
LOUISVILLE, Colo. – During NASA's Commercial Crew Development Round 2 CCDev2) activities for the Commercial Crew...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the new space shuttle, Atlantis, arrives at the...
STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr. arrives aboard a T-38 jet aircraft at the Shuttle Landing Facility at...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the new space shuttle, Atlantis, arrives at the...
STS-95 Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, representing the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), gives a...
STS-95 Pilot Steven W. Lindsey smiles after his arrival aboard a T-38 jet aircraft at the Shuttle Landing Facility...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the new space shuttle, Atlantis, arrives at the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Seen from across the creek bordering runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the new space shuttle, Atlantis, arrives at the...
The Shuttle Training Aircraft (top) seems to chase orbiter Discovery as it touches down at the Shuttle Landing...
STS-95 Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown arrives aboard a T-38 jet aircraft at the Shuttle Landing Facility at KSC...
(Left to right) Center Director Roy Bridges welcomes STS-95 Mission Specialists Scott E. Parazynski, Pedro Duque of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the new space shuttle, Atlantis, arrives at the...
STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., senator from Ohio, reaches to embrace his wife, Annie, after landing at...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the new space shuttle, Atlantis, arrives at the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the new space shuttle, Atlantis, arrives at the...
Viewed across the creek bordering runway 33, orbiter Discovery prepares to touch down at the Shuttle Landing...
Center Director Roy Bridges (left) greets STS-95 Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown after his arrival on a T-38 jet...
STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., senator from Ohio, straps into the seat of the T-38 jet aircraft that...