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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K, enclosed in its payload fairing, passes...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A canister, carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 AMS and Express Logistics Carrier-3...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Juno spacecraft, enclosed in an Atlas payload fairing, rolls out of the Astrotech Space...
STS035-35-007 (2-10 Dec 1990) --- During the STS-35 mission, the Astronomy Laboratory 1 (ASTRO-1) payload, in its...
A worker prepares for mate operations of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, contained inside the payload fairing, to the...
The Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) arrives at the Space Station...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a lifting...
Both halves of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing are positioned for installation around the Solar...
Seen here is Intuitive Machines’ navigation pod sensors for the company’s Nova-C lunar lander ahead of testing done...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Ingo Ronny Wortmann (left) and Dr. Dirk Voeste, scientists with Ruhr-University of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, the Juno spacecraft, enclosed in an Atlas payload fairing, nears...
In the Space Station Processing Facility, workers perform prelaunch processing activities on the Canadian Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The NASA payload is installed on the prototype rover Artemis Jr. for NASA’s Regolith and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Swordtail fish (Xiphophorus helleri), like those that are part of the Neurolab payload...
Tucked inside a protective payload transportation canister, NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental...
STS047-S-038 (12 Sept 1992) --- The seven crewmembers who will be aboard for Endeavour's second trip into space...
STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., senator from Ohio, smiles as he dons his flight suit in the Operations...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A canister, carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 AMS and Express Logistics Carrier-3...
Two Intuitive Machines employees ready navigation pod sensors for the company’s Nova-C lunar lander in preparation...
Launched on June 20, 1996, the STS-78 mission’s primary payload was the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS), which...
STS-88 Mission Specialist Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (center front), a Russian cosmonaut, prepares to operate...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The NASA payload is installed on the prototype rover Artemis Jr. for NASA’s Regolith and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a lifting...
Adam Chaney, a mechanical engineer with the Laboratory Support Services and Operations (LASSO) contract at NASA’s...