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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, workers prepare a...
Planetary scientists believe that small impacts regularly bombard the Moon, but until recently, they’ve had no way...
A large sunspot was the source of a powerful solar flare (an X 9.3) and a coronal mass ejection (Sept. 6, 2017). The...
Technicians conduct an illumination test by flashing a bright light that simulates the Sun into the solar array for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Boeing Delta Operations Center, the suspended second stage of a Boeing Delta IV...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - With flames close behind it, the Boeing Delta IV rocket roars through the thin cloud...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Boeing Delta Operations Center, the Delta IV second stage is rotated to a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Spewing fire and smoke, the Boeing Delta IV rocket roars off the launch pad to lift the...
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronaut Suni Williams flashes a thumbs up after exiting the Neil A. Armstrong...
The Critical Viscosity of Xenon Experiment (CVX-2) on the STS-107 Research 1 mission in 2002 will measure the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Boeing Delta Operations Center, the second stage of a Boeing Delta IV launch...
S121-E-08024 (16 July 2006) --- Astronauts Stephanie D. Wilson and Michael E. Fossum, STS-121 mission specialists,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A truck carrying the second stage of a Boeing Delta IV launch vehicle delivers its...
The Critical Viscosity of Xenon Experiment (CVX-2) on the STS-107 Research 1 mission in 2002 will measure the...
1867: At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 41/42 Flight Engineer Elena Serova...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, workers prepare a...
Technicians conduct an illumination test by flashing a bright light that simulates the Sun into the solar array for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Boeing Delta Operations Center, the second stage of a Boeing Delta IV launch...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Flames and smoke billow out from under the Boeing Delta IV rocket at liftoff, carrying...
Live coverage of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Boeing Delta Operations Center, the second stage of a Boeing Delta IV launch...
jsc2018e050008 - In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 backup...
Chemist Arna Holmes, left, from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, teaches NaLonda Moorer, center, and Maricar...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Boeing Delta Operations Center, the Delta IV second stage is rotated to a...