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Operations are underway to weigh NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, spacecraft in the clean room of the...
A fit check of the Orion Crew and Service Module Horizontal Transporter (CHT) with NASA's Super Guppy aircraft began...
A fit check of the Orion Crew and Service Module Horizontal Transporter (CHT) with NASA's Super Guppy aircraft began...
Operations are underway to weigh NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, spacecraft in the clean room of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a transporter is...
Inside the Multi-Operations Support Building near the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at NASA’s Kennedy...
Rob Mueller, NASA senior technologist in the Surface Systems Office in Kennedy Space Center's Engineering and...
A truck transports technicians wearing Self-Contained Atmospheric Protective Ensemble (SCAPE) suits and operations...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., one side of the Delta IV...
Technicians move NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) inside the Astrotech Space...
Catherine Koerner, third from left, NASA Orion Program manager, along with senior managers from Orion, and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., spacecraft technicians guide...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., preparations are under way to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., the MESSENGER spacecraft is lowered...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., the second half of the Delta...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the GOES-N...
The Atlas 1 payload fairing with the encapsulated GOES-K advanced weather satellite is being lifted into position...
Operations are underway to weigh NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, spacecraft in the clean room of the...
STS035-15-010 (2-11 Dec 1990) --- Astronaut John M. (Mike) Lounge, STS-35 mission specialist, communicates with...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., preparations are under way to...
Technicians use a crane to place the Sentinel-6B spacecraft onto a work stand ahead of prelaunch operations at the...
Technicians prepare NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) for encapsulation in its...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The NASA News Auditorium is filled with media during the post-launch press conference at...
Technicians use a crane to place the Sentinel-6B spacecraft onto a work stand ahead of prelaunch operations at the...