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Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans move the forward skirt of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS)...
Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans move the forward skirt of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS)...
Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans move the forward skirt of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS)...
You're watching NASA Direct. Next on the NASA Space Shuttle Status Report: Getting ready - Orbiter Discovery gets...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot, center, tours the Thermal Protection System...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, members of the STS-122 crew practice handling...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Members of a visiting team from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum examine the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Viewed from the roof of the Launch Control Center in the Launch Complex 39 Area, the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In Discovery's payload bay in Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, STS-120 crew members...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1, astronauts of the second Return to Flight...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, right, takes questions from the media in Kennedy Space Center's...
In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, members of the 1998 astronaut candidate class (group 17) get a close-up...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Launch Control Center at NASA Kennedy Space Center, First Lady Laura Bush...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, members of the STS-103 crew get instructions on use of rib clamps for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The newly redesigned External Tank wends its way through the parking area at the Launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Remote Manipulator System Lab inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - During Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) at SPACEHAB in Cape Canaveral, Fla.,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Into a clear blue sky Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off at 10:39 a.m. EDT from Launch...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The orbiter Discovery rolls along the tow-way to the Vehicle Assembly Building where...
Inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, technicians prepare the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This professional photographer is one of hundreds who are gathered at NASA Kennedy...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Remote Manipulator System Lab inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Framed by Florida greenery, Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off Launch Pad 39B at 10:39...
In the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) bay 1, STS-103 Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. sits in the command seat of...