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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A second shipping container of major flight hardware for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A crane lifts the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), the primary payload on...
These five astronauts and two United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML) payload specialists pause from a rigid...
The STS-85 flight crew walks out of the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building during Terminal Countdown...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A crane lifts the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), the primary payload on...
STS065-S-048 (8 July 1994) --- The Space Shuttle Columbia, with six NASA astronauts and a Japanese payload...
The payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S), secured on a...
The payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S), secured on a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, the second of two Materials International Space...
STS050-S-002 (24 Jan. 1992) --- The seven crew members assigned to NASA's mission pose for the traditional crew...
STS083-302-005 (4-8 April 1997) --- Payload specialist Gregory T. Linteris enters data on the progress of a...
The payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S), secured on a...
Ohio Senator John Glenn, at right, enjoys a tour of the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center....
Secured on a transporter, the payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, two workers keep watch as the second...
STS047-S-002 (June 1992) --- These seven crew members are currently in training for the STS-47/Spacelab J mission...
The space shuttle Discovery lifts off Launch Pad 39B to begin a nine-day mission in Earth-orbit. Launch was at 2:19...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-90 crew arrive at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility in...
The payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S), secured on a...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Technicians move the second half of the payload fairing into place over NASA's Tracking and Data...
NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is secured in its payload fairing inside the...
S85-26553 (Feb 1985) --- STS-40/SLS-1 payload specialist Millie Hughes-Fulford sits strapped in the special device...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, the payload carrier with the Mobile Base...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, technicians install the second Materials...