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The first stage of a Boeing Delta rocket is in vertical position in the gantry on Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – STS-125 crew members conduct equipment and procedure familiarization on parts of the payload...
In the Vertical Processing Facility, TRW technicians look at the point of attachment on the Chandra X-ray...
A worker in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility (SAEF 2) checks the underside of the extended solar...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2 (SAEF-2), KSC technicians look...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Lifting off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, fire and smoke...
Workers in the Space Assembly and Encapsulation Building 2 prepare to move the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter to the spin...
Solar array panels on the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter undergo illumination testing in the Spacecraft Assembly and...
Side-by-side images depict NASA's Curiosity rover (left) and a moon buggy driven during the Apollo 16 mission. Moon...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Building AE, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is unpacked after being...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Clouds of smoke and steam fill Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as...
In this photo, a spacecraft specialist prepares NASA's InSight spacecraft for thermal vacuum testing in the flight...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-125...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Hangar AE, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a technician works on a blanket...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the launch tower on Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, STS-125 Pilot Gregory C....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Under a slow-building cloud bank, space shuttle Atlantis hurtles past the lightning mast on...
The second stage of the Delta II Heavy rocket is lifted up the mobile service tower on Launch Complex 17-B, Cape...
Members of the VERITAS science team pause for a photograph on July 31, 2023, after arriving in Iceland to begin a...
Pri Johnson (left), Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSOLO) systems engineer, and Jim Kania, MSOLO...
Technicians prepare the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) for NASA’s Volatile Investigating Polar...
Technicians prepare the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) for NASA’s Volatile Investigating Polar...
The Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) for NASA’s Volatile Investigating Polar Exploration Rover...