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In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Ball...
Workers inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Florida, move both halves of the United Launch...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay...
The Neurolab payload for STS-90, scheduled to launch aboard the Shuttle Columbia from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on...
The Neurolab payload for STS-90, scheduled to launch aboard the Shuttle Columbia from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, a crane is lowered over the nose of the Atlas payload fairing...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Two of the observatories, the lower stack, mini-stack number 1, for NASA's Magnetospheric...
The Neurolab payload for STS-90, scheduled to launch aboard the Shuttle Columbia from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on...
Two of the observatories, the lower stack, mini-stack number 1, for NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Observatory are...
Tucked inside a protective payload transportation canister, NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The GOES-N satellite, secured inside a payload fairing, is rolled into the clean room...
STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., senator from Ohio, tests the fitting of his flight suit in the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41, the Juno spacecraft,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a lifting...
Testing of navigation pod sensors for Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander is underway at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
Workers inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Florida, move the first half of the United...
Two Intuitive Machines employees ready navigation pod sensors for the company’s Nova-C lunar lander in preparation...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– In space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A,...
The Neurolab payload for STS-90, scheduled to launch aboard the Shuttle Columbia from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on...
This is an artist's concept of the Research and Applications Modules (RAM). Evolutionary growth was an important...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A canister, carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 AMS and Express Logistics Carrier-3...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, the Atlas rocket stacked inside the Vertical Integration...
STS-88 Pilot Frederick W. "Rick" Sturckow receives instruction on the operation of an M-113, an armored personnel...
Launched on June 20, 1996, the STS-78 mission’s primary payload was the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS), which...