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TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Encapsulated in its payload fairing, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L,...
The crew of STS-90 leave the Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Pad 39B during Terminal Countdown...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, a crane hoists the Atlas payload fairing enclosing the Juno...
Inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an engineer installs the...
STS-88 Mission Specialist Jerry L. Ross prepares to operate an M-113, an armored personnel carrier, as part of...
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is prepared for encapsulation in the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing...
The crew of Mission STS-87 depart from the Operations and Checkout Building en route to Launch Pad 39B, where the...
Two of the observatories, the lower stack, mini-stack number 1, for NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Observatory, or...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, the Tracking and Data Relay...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– In space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A,...
In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Ball...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A canister, carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 AMS and Express Logistics Carrier-3...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, during a Crew Equipment Interface Test,...
51L-S-029 (28 Jan. 1986) --- Crew members of the STS-51L mission are seated for breakfast launch morning in the...
Workers uncrate a segment of the Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) in...
Workers in the Space Station Processing Facility gather with the crew of mission STS-97, who are holding the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The STS-105 and Expedition Three crews exit the Operations and Checkout Building on...
STS-88 Pilot Frederick W. "Rick" Sturckow (right) operates an M-113, an armored personnel carrier, as part of...
STS-94 Payload Commander Janice Voss prepares to enter the Space Shuttle Columbia at Launch Pad 39A in preparation...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, a crane hoists the Juno spacecraft, enclosed in an Atlas payload...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Workers prepare a payload dolly for the lower stack, mini-stack number 1, two of the...
The Neurolab payload for STS-90, scheduled to launch aboard the Shuttle Columbia from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on...
STS-88 Mission Specialist Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, a Russian cosmonaut, operates an M-113, an armored...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A water snail (Biomphalaria glabrata), like those that are part of the Neurolab...