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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A crane lifts a refurbished lantern to place on top of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., workers guide the upper...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., workers watch as the upper...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., workers place the lower segments of...
S48-E-013 (15 Sept 1991) --- The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) in the payload bay of the earth-...
The optics module of the James Webb Space Telescope's primary imager, the Near Infrared Camera, arrived at NASA’s...
After five days of service and upgrade work on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the STS-109 crew photographed the...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will carry NASA's Aquarius...
Aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, the STS-37 mission launched April 5, 1991 from launch pad 39B at the Kennedy...
Designed by the mission crew members, the STS-61 crew insignia depicts the astronaut symbol superimposed against the...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will carry NASA's Aquarius...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will carry NASA's Aquarius...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A crane begins lowering a refurbished lantern on top of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse,...
The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) arrived at Building AE today to begin final preparations for its...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Delta II rocket stands ready for launch following rollback of the mobile service...
S72-55170 (11 Dec. 1972) --- These five men in the Mission Control Center ponder the solution to the problem of the...
Range : 280,000 km. ( 170,000 miles ) P-34726 BW Two 10 minute exposures of Neptune's rings clearly show the two...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., the protective shipping...
NASA release April 1, 2010 Fermi's Large Area Telescope resolved high-energy gamma rays from an extended region...
From left to right, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Webb Deputy Observatory Project Scientist, Erin Smith, NASA’s...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center researcher Americo Forestieri aims a ruby...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Delta II rocket stands ready for launch following rollback of the mobile service...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., the GOES-O satellite is...
Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) will be the most sensitive ultraviolet spectrograph ever flown on Hubble. COS will...