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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
Both halves of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing are positioned for installation around the Solar...
APEX-04, or Advanced Plant EXperiments-04, is being prepared in a cold room in the Kennedy Space Center Processing...
NASA engineers install test hardware for the agency's new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, into a newly...
NASA engineers install test hardware for the agency's new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, into a newly...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Inside a protected clean room tent on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,...
HAMPTON, Va. –An engineer monitors high-speed wind tunnel testing of a 10-inch long ceramic model of the Sierra...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Assembly and Refurbishment Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a...
Inside SpaceX’s Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, both halves of the Falcon...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Suspended high inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, the External Tank (ET) designated...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Dave Fentris (upper left) and Gary Austin , aft mechanical technicians with United...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The first half of the fairing is moved into place around the NOAA-N Prime...
The fully stacked twin solid rocket boosters for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket are seen on top of the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A truck hauls a full-size, 149-foot-long, space shuttle solid rocket booster, or SRB, replica...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Inside a protected clean room tent on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,...
At Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, lines help guide the ascent of a Centaur rocket up the launch...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. - NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K, stands positioned between two pieces that make...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In high bay 4 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery begins its ascent into the predawn sky over Launch Pad 39A at NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., spacecraft technicians secure...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A large truck hauls a full-size, 149-foot-long, space shuttle solid rocket booster, or SRB,...