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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - After leaving the Orbiter Processing Facility, Orbiter Atlantis nears the Vehicle...
STS-90 Payload Specialist Jay Buckey, M.D., prepares for launch during suit-up activities in KSC's Operations and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Complex 39B, technicians construct a platform in Space Shuttle Discovery's...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., workers guide the lifting of the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., members of the media, wearing clean...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – STS-125 Commander Scott Altman fits his helmet to his launch-and-entry suit before heading...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility remove the storage collar from a radioisotope thermoelectric...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
The upper stage for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket that will power the agency’s Artemis II mission and...
STS083-346-002 (4-8 April 1997) --- Astronaut Susan L. Still, pilot, appears excited about the chore of vacuuming in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Payload Changeout Room, Launch Pad 39A, workers raise a platform toward the...
Ohio Senator John Glenn, at right, walks with Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Director Roy Bridges shortly after Glenn's...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Complex 39B, a technician in Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay studies a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Seen above a line of trees and shrubs, space shuttle Atlantis hurtles toward space from...
John "JC" Carver, a payload integration engineer with NASA Kennedy Space Center's Test and Operations Support...
Workers transport the international Sentinel-6B satellite, encapsulated in the SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing, from...
STS-82 Payload Commander Mark C. Lee relaxes for a moment after donning his launch and entry suit in the Operations...
In the Operations and Checkout Building, STS-92 Mission Specialist Leroy Chiao has his launch and entry suit...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Shuttle Maine Engine Shop, workers get ready to install an engine...
Orion is revealed for one of the final times on Jan. 14, as it is readied atop its transport pallet from the Neil...