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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers prepare to unload...
Quantitative evaluation of light source by NBL diver during NBL Preliminary Lunar Lighting Evaluation. Divers at the...
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is mated to the payload adapter and lowered onto the ground transport vehicle inside...
NASA’s Lunar Prospector is readied for launch as its gantry-like service tower is rolled back again at Cape...
As the size of a satellite is scaled down to the form factor of a CubeSat, the hardware must scale down as well....
This image shows (part of) a 6-kilometer crater located on the northern slope of Bond Crater. Pole-facing gullies...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility -2 (SAEF-2), JPL workers mount a...
The left image shows a phytoplankton bloom in the Norwegian Sea. The right image shows turbulent clouds in Jupiter's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, a crane hoists the Juno spacecraft, enclosed in an Atlas payload...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In this close-up aerial view, the Delta II rocket with the THEMIS spacecraft atop sits...
Enceladus is a world divided. To the north, we see copious amounts of craters and evidence of the many impacts the...
S89-42940 (April 1989) --- In this artist's rendition, the Galileo spacecraft is being boosted into its...
About 50,000 Clementine images were processed to produce the four orthographic views of the Moon. The images show...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers begin to unload...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Juno...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Backdropped by the Atlantic Ocean and surrounded by its four-tower lightning protection...
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is prepared for encapsulation in the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Pad 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers monitor the solid rocket booster...
Test subjects performing subjective assessment of supplemental lighting during NBL Preliminary Lunar Lighting...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The fairing for the upper stages of the Delta II rocket carrying the Mars Polar Lander...
S74-23458 (19 Dec. 1973) --- This photograph of the sun, taken on Dec. 19, 1973, during the third and final manned...
Technicians secure the re-entry vehicle payload adapter canister for the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, twin...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The door to the high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations' payload processing facility in...