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In the Hazardous Processing Facility at Astrotech Space Operations, workers get ready to move the integrated THEMIS...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Hazardous Processing Facility at Astrotech Space Operations, a technician...
At Astrotech Space Operations, technicians conduct black light inspection of the THEMIS probes. Black light...
At Astrotech Space Operations, technicians weigh one of the THEMIS probes. Next the probe will be installed on a...
At Astrotech Space Operations, one of the five THEMIS probes is lifted from a scale. It will be moved to a probe...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Hazardous Processing Facility at Astrotech Space Operations, workers get ready...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech Space Operations, workers prepare the integrated THEMIS spacecraft for...
ISS030-E-061267 (25 Jan. 2012) --- Aurora Borealis steals the scene in this nighttime photograph shot from the...
ISS011-E-12415 (31 August 2005) --- Aurora Borealis and lights in Finland, Russia, Estonia and Latvia are featured...
ISS030-E-075182 (4 Feb. 2012) --- This nighttime view of Earth's horizon and scattered city lights was photographed...
ISS030-E-055791 (29 Jan. 2012) --- This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the...
ISS030-E-177670 (28 March 2012) --- One of the Expedition 30 crew members photographed this nighttime scene while...
ISS034-E-045223 (10 Feb. 2013) -- One of the Expedition 34 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
(February 19, 2025) -- NASA astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates electrostatic forces using charged water droplets and...
ISS030-E-114095 (6 Feb. 2012)--- Minor activity of Aurora Borealis is easily recognized "piggybacking" Earth's limb...
ISS034-E-050137 (14 Feb. 2013) --- One of the Expedition 34 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
ISS023-E-058455 (29 May 2010) --- Aurora Australis is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew...
S116-E-07663 (20 Dec. 2006) --- One of the STS-116 crewmembers onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery captured this...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the United Launch...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The first stage of a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket arrives at the mobile...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The first stage of a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket leaves for Launch Pad 17-B...
On Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a crane (foreground) raises the first stage of a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II second stage arrives at...
The first stage of a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket leaves for Launch Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force...