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STS-102 Commander James Wetherbee has his helmet checked during suit fit in the Operations and Checkout Building....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Complex 39B, a technician in Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay performs a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, STS-122 crew members are introduced to part of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-118 Mission Specialist Tracy Caldwell is...
NASA and SpaceX technicians safely encapsulate NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
Technicians and engineers encapsulate the Sentinel-6B spacecraft within a protective payload fairing inside the...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
Packed in shipping containers, elements of the Sentinel-6B spacecraft, a collaboration between NASA, ESA (European...
Visitors watch processing of the first Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) for the International Space Station...
STS035-28-006 (2-10 Dec 1990) --- STS-35 Astronomy Laboratory 1 (ASTRO-1) telescopes, in on-orbit operating position...
In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-92 Pilot Pamela Ann Melroy has her new launch and entry suit adjusted...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Orbiter Atlantis rolls out of the Orbiter Processing Facility on its way to the...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
The shipping container holding NASA's Lucy spacecraft arrives at Astrotech Space Operations payload processing...
At Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Atlas IIA rocket is ready to be lifted to vertical in the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After its shipping cover was removed, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo Exposed...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-95 Pilot Steven W. Lindsey (right)...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers...
NASA and SpaceX technicians safely encapsulate NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft in...
Technicians and engineers encapsulate the Sentinel-6B spacecraft within a protective payload fairing inside the...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...