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The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is prepared for encapsulation in the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing...
The Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) arrives at Kennedy Space Center to...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– In space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The door to the high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations' payload processing facility in...
STS067-713-072 (2-18 March 1995) --- This 70mm cargo bay scene, backdropped against a desert area of Namibia,...
STS109-S-021 (1 March 2002) --- The STS-109 crew members wave to onlookers as they stride out from the Operations...
STS-88 Mission Commander Robert D. Cabana operates an M-113, an armored personnel carrier, as part of emergency...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Encapsulated in its payload fairing, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The STS-104 crew walks out of the Operations and Checkout Building, on their way to...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, members of the news media are...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The GOES-N satellite, secured inside a payload fairing, arrives at the Astrotech...
Technicians connected NASA’s Psyche spacecraft to the payload attach fitting inside the clean room at Astrotech...
STS-95 Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, (M.D., Ph.D.), with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA),...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville NASA's Tracking and Data Relay...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, the Juno spacecraft, enclosed in an Atlas payload fairing, is...
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is prepared for encapsulation in the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing...
In the Space Station Processing Facility, a worker performs prelaunch processing activities on the Canadian Space...
S86-41700 (19 May 1984) --- The Space Shuttle Discovery moves towards Pad A on the crawler transporter for its...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-90 flight crew enjoy the traditional pre-liftoff breakfast in the crew...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A ribbon-cutting at NASA's Kennedy Space Center officially reactivated the Operations...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A canister, carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 AMS and Express Logistics Carrier-3...
Workers inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Florida, move the first half of the United...
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed on Mar. 2 delivering 10 NASA science and technology instruments...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle...