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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, yellow...
Technicians and engineers encapsulate the Sentinel-6B spacecraft within a protective payload fairing inside the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Members of the media tour several facilities, including the Launch Equipment Test Facility in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-107 Commander Rick Husband operates an M113 armored personnel carrier during...
Technicians install protective solar array covers for the Sentinel-6B spacecraft inside the Astrotech Space...
STS-82 Mission Commander Kenneth D. Bowersox leads the way to the astronaut van as the crew departs from the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – From Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis hurtles...
Technicians working inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Lifting off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, fire and smoke...
The NASA DC-8 in a right bank over the rugged Sierra Nevada Mountains. The former airliner is a "dash-72" model and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Japan...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Clouds of smoke and steam fill Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as...
Engineers conduct a mass properties test on the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) instrument...
Jim Mantovani, with Kennedy Space Center’s Exploration and Research and Technology programs, unboxes a CubeRover at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Launch Complex 39B, technicians enter Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers prepare to check out the Mars...
Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation...
STS-102 Pilot James Kelly has his launch suit checked during suit fit in the Operations and Checkout Building. The...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Under a slow-building cloud bank, space shuttle Atlantis hurtles past the lightning mast on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Members of the media tour several facilities, including the Multi-Payload Processing...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Astronaut Leopold Eyharts, who represents the European Space Agency, tries on a...
This image shows the recently upgraded air showers which blast high-velocity HEPA-filtered air onto people before...