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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- In the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers prepare space...
STS093-S-013 (27 June 1999) --- In this fish-eye view, the Chandra X-ray Observatory rests inside the payload bay of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- One of Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay doors is nearly closed. Still visible are...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39A, the payload for space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 mission waits for...
S96-07957 (16 April 1996) --- A road sign points to Launch Pad 39B, the final earthly destination for the Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- In the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers prepare space...
The U.S. Lab Destiny is ready to be moved from Atlantis’ payload bay into the Payload Changeout Room. After the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An air conditioning replacement unit to be included among the logistics equipment to...
STS-100 Commander Kent V. Rominger returns to KSC to complete Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities that...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- With the payload successfully installed inside, the payload bay doors on Space Shuttle...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Leaving the Vehicle Asembly Building for Launch Pad 39A on a crisp, clear winter day,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - From a platform in Endeavour's payload bay, STS-113 Mission Specialist John Herrington...
Workers in the Orbiter Processing Facility prepare to unload the STS-95 payloads from the payload bay of the orbiter...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Launch Pad 39A, space shuttle Discovery's payload bay doors are closed for launch....
Payload specialist Albert Sacco Jr. inspects a crystal in a cylindrical autoclave on the mid-deck of the...
Workers in Payload Changeout Room at Launch Pad 39A prepare the Integrated Truss Structure Z1 for transfer to the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers in the payload changeout room on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center check...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, workers keep watch as the P5 truss for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, the P5 truss for mission STS-116 moves...
A Great Blue Heron seems oblivious to the tremendous spectacle of light and sound generated by a Shuttle liftoff, as...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a worker keeps watch as the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Orbiter Processing Facility watch as the STS-95 payloads are lifted...
STS095-E-5214 (4 Nov. 1998) --- Payload specialist Chiaki Mukai floats into the airlock during Flight Day 6 activity...
STS-100 Pilot Jeffrey S. Ashby returns to KSC to complete Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities that were...