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Billows of exhaust fill Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, as the Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers check the mating of the spacecraft Stardust (above) with the...
Flames sear the pristine blue sky behind the Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Stardust spacecraft after the...
Into a pristine blue sky, the Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Stardust spacecraft leaves clouds of exhaust...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Stardust spacecraft waits to be encased in a protective canister...
In the early morning, the Stardust spacecraft, with the third stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket attached, arrives...
Workers at Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, connect the third stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket (above),...
At Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers check the mounting on a video camera on the second stage of...
Gaseous Nitrogen Dewar apparatus developed by Dr. Alex McPherson of the University of California, Irvine for use...
At Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers watch as the protective canister is lifted from the Stardust...
TEMPUS, an electromagnetic levitation facility that allows containerless processing of metallic samples in...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, a canister (left) is moved toward the Stardust spacecraft (right). The...
At Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers finish mounting a video camera on the second stage of a...
This soldering iron has an evacuated copper capsule at the tip that contains a pellet of Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG)...
OSIRIS-REx Project Scientist, Dr. Jason Dworkin of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z instrument to capture this view of the "Cheyava Falls" rock sample...
A close-up view of NASA’s C-130 aircraft that carries the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars...
NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie on Oct. 11, 2019, the 2,553rd Martian day, or sol, of its mission. The rover...
Workers offload the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover from the agency’s C-130...
This image, received today, shows the trench excavated by NASA's Viking 1 surface sampler. The trench was dug by...
The Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover arrives aboard NASA’s C-130 aircraft at the...
Workers prepare to offload the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover from the agency’s...
Workers use a special handling device to offload the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars Perseverance...