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jsc2024e016243 (2/14/2024) --- Close-up view of the final Multi-Resolution Scanning payload with its stereo vision...
iss048e057073 (8/12/2016) --- A view of Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) installed on ExPRESS (Expedite...
STS093-S-013 (27 June 1999) --- In this fish-eye view, the Chandra X-ray Observatory rests inside the payload bay of...
ISS020-E-037369 (1 Sept. 2009) --- A close-up view of a Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE-6)...
iss048e052292 (8/6/2016) --- A view of Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) installed on ExPRESS (Expedite...
STS-42 Payload Specialist Roberta L. Bondar (light shirt) smiles as she looks out overhead window W7 while Mission...
ISS020-E-037372 (1 Sept. 2009) --- A close-up view of a Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE-6)...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the payload transportation canister containing the...
jsc2022e083567 (10/20/2022) --- An inside view of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative Extrusion payload, shown in...
ISS022-E-068867 (9 Feb. 2010) --- This view of the space shuttle Endeavour, taken on Feb. 9 from the International...
A detail view of one of the OSAM-1 robotic arms after being integrated onto the flight payload top-deck at Goddard...
ISS022-E-068832 (9 Feb. 2010) --- This view of the space shuttle Endeavour, taken on Feb. 9 from the International...
Fisheye view from the back of the Flight Control Room (FCR) of the Mission Control Center (MCC). Visible are the...
S127-E-008263 (23 July 2009) --- This is a July 23 (flight day 9) view of the robotic arm for the Japanese...
ISS022-E-068844 (9 Feb. 2010) --- This view of the space shuttle Endeavour, taken from the International Space...
STS102-E-5113 (10 March 2001) --- An out-the-window view shows part of the Space Shuttle Discovery over land. A...
ISS017-E-009386 (11 June 2008) --- A nadir view of the Space Shuttle Discovery's crew cabin and the forward section...
MSFC Building 4663, NW corner view showing entrance to Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC). The HOSC is home...
S89-E-5202 (25 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows mission specialist, Bonnie J. Dunbar,...
STS068-150-020 (30 September-11 October 1994) --- An exceptionally clear, high-contrast view of the desert basins...
S82-E-5279 (14 Feb. 1997) --- Astronaut Mark C. Lee, STS-82 payload commander (in foreground) and Steven L. Smith...
S130-E-012456 (20 Feb. 2010) --- Backdropped by a blue and white part of Earth, a partial view of space shuttle...
S127-E-008262 (23 July 2009) --- This is a July 23 (flight day 9) view of the robotic arm for the Japanese...
View showing Payload Specialists Bonnie Dunbar and Larry DeLucas in the aft section of the U. S. Microgravity...