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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-110 crew members check out Integrated...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, a crane is lowered toward the Juno spacecraft, enclosed in an...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, operations are...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Encapsulated in its payload fairing, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a lifting...
In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Ball...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, a crane is attached to the nose of the Atlas payload fairing...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, technicians monitor a crane as it is lowered toward the Juno...
Inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an engineer installs the...
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...
Both halves of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing come together around the Solar Orbiter spacecraft...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Greeted by cheers from wellwishers at KSC and eager for their venture into space on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville NASA's Tracking and Data Relay...
Inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Florida, the first half of the United Launch Alliance...
STS075-701-087 (25 Feb. 1996) --- A medium close-up view, captured with a 70mm camera, shows the Tethered Satellite...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Swordtail fish (Xiphophorus helleri), like those that are part of the Neurolab payload...
Workers inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Florida, move the first half of the United...
The Neurolab payload for STS-90, scheduled to launch aboard the Shuttle Columbia from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on...
Both halves of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing come together around the Solar Orbiter spacecraft...
The STS-88 crew receives instruction on the operation of an M-113, an armored personnel carrier, as part of...
STS-88 Mission Commander Robert D. Cabana (right) receives instruction on the operation of an M-113, an armored...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Encapsulated in its payload fairing, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L,...