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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...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the equipment and hardware...
The DC-8 Airborne Laboratory in a left banking turn above the airport at Palmdale, California. The right wing is...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of the STS-122 crew take part in harness training in the Orbiter Processing...
Technicians working inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida...
Ohio Senator John Glenn, at right, sits in the flight deck of the orbiter Columbia as astronaut Stephen Oswald...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
Engineers conduct a mass properties test on the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) instrument...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - With employees watching, Orbiter Atlantis rolls into the Vehicle Assembly Building for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers are removing the solar panel from...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a United Space...
ISS019-E-018483 (20 May 2009) --- After NASA's Mission Control gave the Expedition 19 astronaut crew aboard the...
NASA's DC-8 Airborne Science platform shown against a background of a dark blue sky on February 20, 1998. The...
A.J. Nick, with Kennedy Space Center’s Exploration and Research and Technology programs, unboxes a CubeRover at the...
Technicians install protective solar array covers for the Sentinel-6B spacecraft inside the Astrotech Space...
The upper stage for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket that will power the agency’s Artemis II mission and...
The wedge-shaped X-33 was a sub-scale technology demonstration prototype of a Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV). Through...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – As if erupting from the bed of cattails at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Japan...
STS-102 Mission Specialist Paul Richards has his launch suit checked for fit in the Operations and Checkout...
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft was encapsulated inside the Astrotech Space Operations payload processing facility near...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Framed by trees in the foreground, space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at...
A.J. Nick, left, and Jim Mantovani, with Kennedy Space Center’s Exploration and Research and Technology programs,...