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51F-S-162 (6 Aug 1985) ---Mission Operations Director George W.S. Abbey, right, shakes hands with Astronaut C....
Inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Florida, workers help secure both halves of the United...
Workers guide a segment of the Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) past...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Juno spacecraft, enclosed in an Atlas payload fairing, arrives at Space Launch Complex...
The crew of Mission STS-87 depart from the Operations and Checkout Building en route to Launch Pad 39B, where the...
Workers inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Florida, move the first half of the United...
The Neurolab payload for STS-90, scheduled to launch aboard the Shuttle Columbia from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on...
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 team from Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California participates in simulation training for the Polar Resources...
The primary objective of the STS-35 mission was round the clock observation of the celestial sphere in ultraviolet...
Orion is revealed for one of the final times on Jan. 14, as it is readied atop its transport pallet from the Neil...
A team of engineers participates in simulation training for the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) on...
A team of engineers participates in simulation training for the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) on...
A team of engineers participates in simulation training for the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) on...
Janine Captain, left, and Jackie Quinn participate in simulation training for the Polar Resources Ice Mining...
A team of engineers participates in simulation training for the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) on...
Technicians use a crane to place the Sentinel-6B spacecraft onto a work stand ahead of prelaunch operations at the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., spacecraft technicians guide...
STS063-06-027 (3-11 Feb 1995) --- Seated at the commander's station on the Space Shuttle Discovery's flight deck,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, technicians demate...
Technicians use a crane to place the Sentinel-6B spacecraft onto a work stand ahead of prelaunch operations at the...
A fit check of the Orion Crew and Service Module Horizontal Transporter (CHT) with NASA's Super Guppy aircraft is...
Lockheed Martin Missile and Space Co. employees Joe Collingwood, at right, and Ken Dickinson retract pins in the...