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In the Vertical Processing Facility, the Chandra X-ray Observatory is lifted from its workstand in order to move it...
Renita Fincke, wife of Expedition 9 Flight Engineer and NASA International Space Station Science Officer Michael...
Renita Fincke, left, watches her husband, NASA astronaut Michael Fincke and Expedition 9 Flight Engineer depart from...
Renita Fincke, right, awaits the arrival of her husband NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, while holding their 4...
In this fish-eye view, a worker oversees the movement of the Chandra X-ray Observatory into the payload bay of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Mrs. Lalitha Chandrasekhar, wife of the late Indian-American Nobel Laureate...
In this fish-eye view, the Chandra X-ray Observatory rests inside the payload bay of the orbiter Columbia. Chandra...
STS093-S-013 (27 June 1999) --- In this fish-eye view, the Chandra X-ray Observatory rests inside the payload bay of...
Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, best known as the discoverer...
In Hollywood blockbusters, explosions are often among the stars of the show. In space, explosions of actual stars...
In the summer of the year 1054 AD, Chinese astronomers saw a new "guest star," that appeared six times brighter than...
In the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), the Chandra X-ray Observatory is the object of attention of the STS-93...
At Launch Pad 39-B, the Chandra X-ray Observatory sits inside the payload bay of Space Shuttle Columbia, waiting for...
At Launch Pad 39-B, the Space Shuttle Columbia's payload bay doors close around the Chandra X-ray Observatory...
Inside the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), the Chandra X-ray Observatory (top) lies in its protective container...
In the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), workers prepare the shrouded Chandra X-ray Observatory for its lift to a...
In the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), workers move the shrouded Chandra X-ray Observatory on its workstand to...
In the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), workers check the placement of the Chandra X-ray Observatory on the stand...
Inside the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), workers begin lifting the Chandra X-ray Observatory out of its...
Inside the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), workers check the overhead cable that will lift the Chandra X-ray...
In the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), workers watch as the overhead crane starts lifting the shrouded Chandra...
In the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), workers keep watch on the crane lifting the shrouded Chandra X-ray...
Inside the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), workers attach the overhead cable to the Chandra X-ray Observatory to...
In the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), workers check fittings and cables on the stand that will raise the...