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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crew begins to fix a major water main break in...
S85-42474 (16 Oct. 1985) --- A KC-135 aircraft provides a brief period of weightlessness as a preview for a teacher,...
This color-infrared image shows sand dunes in Melas Chasma, located within the Valles Marineris canyon system. The...
STS103-728-022 (19-27 December 1999)--- One of the astronauts aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Discovery used...
S69-45025 (27 July 1969) --- This is the first lunar sample that was photographed in detail in the Lunar Receiving...
The Pilbara in northwestern Australia exposes some of the oldest rocks on Earth, over 3.6 billion years old. The...
S69-45009 (27 July 1969) --- This is the first lunar sample that was photographed in detail in the Lunar Receiving...
The KSC-developed X-33 weight simulator (top), known as the "iron bird," is lifted to a vertical position at the...
This image from NASA Terra spacecraft shows the Ural Mountains, which run 2500 km north-south through western...
This EIT 171 image shows a wide variety of loops and active regions (lighter areas on the surface). Taken on...
The KSC-developed X-33 weight simulator (left), known as the "iron bird," is fully raised to a vertical position at...
The KSC-developed X-33 weight simulator (top, right), known as the "iron bird," is lifted to a vertical position at...
Indonesia produces two thirds of the world's nickel from open pit mines. In southeast Sulawesi, about 50 nickel...
This artist's-concept illustration depicts the spacecraft of NASA's Psyche mission near the mission's target, the...
Join the journey as NASA’s Psyche mission team launches in 2023 to explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the...
A major component of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has been delivered to the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
This artist's concept depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a...
This image of a target called "Private Joseph Field" combines four images from the microscopic imager on the robotic...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Shop, the SSME is lifted and moved toward the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, the Hyster lift backs away from the orbiter...
This image of the Nili Fossae region, to the west of the great Isidis basin, shows layered bedrock with many impact...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Dave Fentris (upper left) and Gary Austin , aft mechanical technicians with United...