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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Vertical Processing Facility, workers watch while an overhead crane lowers the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On the Mars Exploration Rover 1 (MER-1), the science boom, below the front petal, is...
In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility (SAEF 2), workers stand back as the panels of the solar array...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Unit, or SIC&DH, is transferred inside the...
Workers in the Space Assembly and Encapsulation Building 2 make a last-minute check on the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-125 Pilot...
In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility (SAEF 2), workers look at the opened panels of the solar array...
In the Vertical Processing Facility, the Chandra X-ray Observatory is observed after deployment of the solar panel...
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer sits on its rotation fixture after being fueled and prior to being installed to the EELV...
In March 2025, NASA pilots took the agency’s ER-2 science aircraft on a series of night flights over NASA’s...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the payload canister with...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
The Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia sits outside the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1 after transfer from the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On twin towers of flame, space shuttle Atlantis roars into space from Launch Pad 39A at...
Orbital Sciences Corportation's L1011 releases a Pegasus rocket before ignition, January 25, 2003, off the coast of...
Workers in the Space Assembly and Encapsulation Building 2 prepare the spin table that will test the 2001 Mars...
Workers in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility (SAEF 2) reattach the solar panel on the 2001 Mars...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the payload canister with the Hubble Space...
On Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, workers maneuver the first stage of a Boeing Delta rocket into...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, technicians perform blanket closeouts...
Arrays of lights at left focus on solar array panels at right during illumination testing. The solar array is part...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis rises...
The 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter rests on the spin table in the Space Assembly and Encapsulation Building 2. There it...