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iss069e060236 (Aug. 14, 2023) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg works on physics...
Three of the six flight wheels that will travel to Mars can be seen attached to NASA's Perseverance rover (which is...
Orion is revealed for one of the final times on Jan. 14, as it is readied atop its transport pallet from the Neil...
JSC2011-E-040343 (7 April 2011) --- NASA astronaut Doug Hurley, STS-135 pilot, looks at the thermal protection...
Engineers wearing protecting garb, make adjustments to a lightweight simulator version of NASA's Resource Prospector...
ISS028-E-015671 (10 July 2011) --- This head-on picture of Atlantis' nose and part of the underside's thermal...
Engineers at Kennedy Space Center prepare the Orion heat shield for transport to Marshall Space Flight Center for...
The last major assembly operation to prepare Orion for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) is completed in the Launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, catenary wires are being...
At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Joint Polar Satellite System-1, or JPSS-1, is on its way to Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo sits on a workstand in the Space Station...
Packaged in a protective container, the Joint Polar Satellite System-1, or JPSS-1, spacecraft is about to be lifted...
ISS034-E-040265 (5 Feb. 2013) --- Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, Expedition 34 flight engineer,...
jsc2021e036648 (8/4/2021) --- A preflight image of the READI FP shell assembled before the immersion test. REducing...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Discovery (foreground) and Space Shuttle Atlantis (background) both...
NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission launches at 11:13...
Experts at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, conducted a lightning test, which simulates the...
Teams at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida practiced various emergency rescue training scenarios with the...
iss072e143492 (Nov. 1, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams displays the Space Tissue...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - KSC employees move equipment from the Thermal Protection System Facility (TPSF),...
Technicians work on the NASA Docking System (NDS) hatch installation in the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing...
S66-37943 (3 June 1966) --- The Augmented Target Docking Adapter is photographed against the background of the...
Technicians lift NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft onto a work stand inside the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., workers help place the first half of...