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A sunrise view of Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 1, 2019. A fully...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Crew members in a skiff from Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval...
Apollo-era recovery engineer Milt Heflin observes the new ways in which the Orion crew capsule will be recovered...
The mobile launcher with NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft aboard is seen inside the...
The Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay is filled with various pieces of flight hardware for...
The engine vertical installer for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) arrives at the Vehicle Assembly at NASA’s Kennedy...
NASA astronaut candidate Anil Menon poses for a photograph in front of NASA’s Artemis I Space Launch System and...
A fit check of the Orion Crew and Service Module Horizontal Transporter (CHT) with NASA's Super Guppy aircraft is...
The engine vertical installer for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) arrives by large transport truck at NASA’s...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Liberty Star, one of NASA’s solid rocket booster retrieval ships, tows a spent booster from...
S71-43543 (7 Aug. 1971) --- The Apollo 15 Command Module (CM), with astronauts David R. Scott, commander; Alfred M....
The abort motor for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, secured in a heavy transport truck, arrives at the Launch Abort System...
Workers begin checkouts of the abort motor for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission inside the Launch Abort System Facility...
On April 6, 2016, engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, kicked off a series of nine drop...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- NASA's Orion spacecraft floats in the Pacific Ocean after splashdown from its first flight test...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Solid Rocket Booster Retrieval Ship Freedom Star, with a booster in tow, passes through...
NASA’s SpaceX Dragon Crew-1 Crew Post-Landing News Conference NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts answer questions about...
Jeremy Parsons, Exploration Ground Systems, deputy program manager, NASA Kennedy Space Center, participates in a...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- At Naval Base San Diego in California, NASA's Orion spacecraft is being offloaded from the well...
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik speaks during a prelaunch media briefing on the agency’s Moon to Mars exploration plans...
Members of the Artemis I launch team are at their consoles inside Firing Room 1 of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Crew members from Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, approach...
Artemis I Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, at left, performs the traditional cutting of the tie for...
A brilliant sunrise fills the sky before a fully functional Launch Abort System (LAS) with a test version of Orion...