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JSC2000-E-29121 (27 November 2000) --- Astronaut Joseph R. Tanner, STS-97 mission specialist, goes over a readiness...
JSC2000-E-29131 (27 November 2000) --- Astronaut Brent W. Jett, Jr., mission commander, is pictured in the cockpit...
Views of the STS-3 Crew, Astronauts Lousma and Fullerton, during departure activities with family and friends to...
STS-38 Pilot Frank L. Culbertson waves from T-38A NASA 955 forward cockpit prior to Ellington Field departure....
Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti, of the European Space Agency (ESA), left, Soyuz Commander...
Expedition 41 crew members, Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA, left, Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of...
Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA), presses her hands against...
Friends and family join in for a photo with Expedition 65 backup crew members, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev of...
This montage video shows highlights from the Apollo 11 mission, from liftoff in Florida to departure from the moon.
This montage video shows highlights from the Apollo 11 mission, from liftoff in Florida to departure from the Moon.
iss072e861975 (March 28, 2025) --- Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter begins its departure from the...
ISS027-E-015441 (22 April 2011) --- Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev (left), Expedition 27 commander; along with...
STS-38 crewmembers, carrying their luggage, walk across the Ellington Field runway to board their T-38As. The...
Expedition 63 Space Station Crew Departs for Kazakh Launch Site The International Space Station’s Expedition 63 crew...
After two and a half years of space operations near asteroid Bennu.... NASA’s first asteroid return mission...
Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA, waves farewell to family and friends as he departs the Cosmonaut...
Expedition 42 crew members, Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA, left, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the...
Expedition 42 crew members, Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA, left, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the...
Expedition 42 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) waves farewell to...
Over the past five years, NASA’s Airspace Technology Demonstration 2 (ATD-2) project, which ends Thursday, Sept. 30,...
NASA, Lockheed Martin S-3B Viking Aircraft #N601NA, prepares for departure from Cleveland Hopkins Airport in support...
ISS017-E-021990 (23 Oct. 2008) --- Cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, Expedition 17 commander, makes final preparations for...
S117-E-08731 (19 June 2007) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space, the International Space Station moves away...
S82-28705 (20 March 1982) --- Astronaut Jack R. Lousma, left, and C. Gordon Fullerton pause for a moment at...