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The second of three missions as part of NASA’s Antarctica Long Duration Balloon Flight Campaign was successfully...
NASA is sending a mobile robot to the south pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Boeing Delta II second stage clears the upper level of the launch tower on Launch...
NASA Heliophysics Science Division Instrument Systems Engineer Patrick Haas speaks to guests about the upcoming...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Wrapped inside a protective cover, the Swift spacecraft arrives at Launch Pad 17-A on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Vertical Processing Facility, workers watch while an overhead crane lowers the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – As if erupting from the bed of cattails at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – STS-125 crew members conduct equipment and procedure familiarization on parts of the payload...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, technicians lower...
Technicians install and align the second set of solar arrays for NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, technicians perform blanket closeouts...
Yunjin Kim, NuSTAR project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laborartory (JPL), talks about NASA's Spectroscopic...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The payload canister with the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) inside is...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Framed by trees in the foreground, space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Clouds of smoke and steam billow across Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis rides a column of fire as it roars off Launch Pad 39A at NASA's...
Deputy principal investigator, SuperCam instrument, Institut de Recherche Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - The Delta II rocket on Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, waits for the...
NASA Launch Director Omar Baez discusses the launch countdown and rocket-cam view of separation with George Diller....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
Workers in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility (SAEF 2) reattach the solar panel on the 2001 Mars...
Workers in the Space Assembly and Encapsulation Building 2 prepare the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter for its move to the...
On Nov. 22, 2015 at 19:15 UTC the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of Snow across...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A camera near Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida captures the liftoff...