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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – STS-125 Mission Specialist Megan McArthur puts on her launch-and-entry suit before heading...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Complex 39B, technicians in Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay monitor the...
A.J. Nick, with Kennedy Space Center’s Exploration and Research and Technology programs, unboxes a CubeRover at the...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Technicians at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., oversee the mating of...
Engineers conduct a mass properties test on the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) instrument...
Looking relaxed and ready to fly, the STS-82 crew departs from the Operations and Checkout Building en route to...
Technicians and engineers encapsulate the Sentinel-6B spacecraft within a protective payload fairing inside the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Clouds of smoke and steam fill Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as...
NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft is pictured during pre-launch processing on...
NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, left, visits the Combustion Lab at Marshall Space Flight Center on March 25,...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – STS-125 Pilot Gregory C. Johnson puts on his launch-and-entry suit before heading for Launch...
Paula Crawford (assisted by an American Sign Language interpreter) lectures students about materials science...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After the successful Flight Readiness Firing of the space shuttle Discovery's three main...
Operations are underway to move the protective shipping container enclosing the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft...
Technicians and engineers encapsulate the Sentinel-6B spacecraft within a protective payload fairing inside the...
Ohio Senator John Glenn, at left, enjoys a tour of the Engineering Development Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center....
Jim Mantovani, left, and A.J. Nick, with Kennedy Space Center’s Exploration and Research and Technology programs,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Members of the media tour several facilities, including the Operations & Checkout Building...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the equipment and hardware...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Technicians at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., watch closely as the...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After the NASA Update by Administrator Sean O’Keefe, Center Director Jim Kennedy...