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The STS-95 crew partakes in the traditional breakfast in the crew quarters at the Operations and Checkout (O&C)...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF), workers remove the protective covering from a part of payload...
After leaving the Operations and Checkout Building, the STS-95 crew approach the Astrovan for their trip to Launch...
Mechanical and electrical support equipment for NASA’s Landsat 9 observatory are being processed inside the...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2), stacked atop...
STS-99 Mission Specialist Mamoru Mohri (Ph.D.), who is with the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) of Japan,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Russian Antonov AH-124-100 cargo airplane has landed on the Shuttle Landing Facility at...
The payload fairing for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is moved to the entrance of the Payload...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - On the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, equipment is...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - . The STS-107 crew, waving to onlookers, exits the Operations and Checkout Building on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-91 crew participate in the Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) for their...
STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., a senator from Ohio and one of the original seven Project Mercury...
Mechanical and electrical support equipment for NASA’s Landsat 9 observatory are inside the Integrated Processing...
In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-99 Mission Specialist Mamoru Mohri, who is with the National Space...
STS-99 Mission Commander Kevin Kregel suits up in the Operations and Checkout Building, as part of a flight crew...
The payload fairing for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is moved inside the Payload Hazardous...
After leaving the Operations and Checkout Building, the STS-95 crew wave at well-wishers as they approach the...
STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., a senator from Ohio and one of the original seven Project Mercury...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Pad 39B, the open doors of the payload canister, inside the environmentally...
Technicians assist as a crane lowers the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – White clouds of smoke and steam sandwich space shuttle Atlantis as it roars off Launch Pad...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
Technicians and engineers encapsulate the Sentinel-6B spacecraft within a protective payload fairing inside the...
The Atlas IIA rocket is close to its vertical position in the launch tower at Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air...