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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Technicians facilitate the transfer the STS-106 payload to Atlantis on Launch Pad 39-B...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the flame trench deflector that...
S88-54948 (6 Dec 1988) --- The STS-29 crewmembers are trained in procedures to follow in the event of a fire with...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the payload ground handling mechanism in the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At SPACEHAB in Titusville, Fla., STS-127 Mission Specialist Christopher Cassidy gets a close...
ISS008-E-05181 (31 October 2003) --- Astronaut C. Michael Foale, Expedition 8 mission commander and NASA ISS science...
S99-06192 (21 June 1999) --- Astronaut C. Michael Foale, mission specialist, wearing an underwater-adapted training...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the shuttle training...
jsc2021e020422 (2/8/2021) --- A preflight view of the Ultrasonic Tweezers handle trapping a polystyrene sphere...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Launch Pad 39A, workers in the payload changeout room monitor the payload...
View of the left cockpit and pilot's seat of the F-111 MAW aircraft. Unlike most fighter aircraft of the time, the...
jsc2021e004418 (10/6/2020) --- A pre-flight view of the front side of the RSP-01 Flight Model. The RSP-01 satellite...
jsc2021e004419 (10/27/2020) --- A pre-flight view of the RSP-01 Robot Arm Deployment. The RSP-01 satellite is a...
STS096-712-034 (3 June 1999) --- A STS-96 crew member aboard Discovery handling a 70mm camera recorded this image of...
STS084-358-009 (15-24 May 1997) --- Astronaut Eileen M. Collins, STS-84 pilot, handles what appears to be an...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Dressed in his launch and entry suit, STS-122 Commander Steve Frick is seated in the...
iss072e157843 (Nov. 11, 2024) --- The Canadarm2 robotic arm with its fine-tuned robotic hand Dextre, or the Special...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, STS-126 crew members...
ISS047e050514 (04/07/2016) --- Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra configures the station’s Microgravity Science...
Caption: ISS043E044174 (03/22/2015) --- Its haircut time onboard the International Space Station as Expedition 43...
NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik (far left) and Jessica Watkins (center) visit the Granular Mechanics and Regolith...
STS050-259-016 (25 June-9 July 1992) --- Payload specialist Lawrence J. DeLucas works at the Multipurpose Glovebox...
S86-28889 (14 Feb. 1986) --- Kennedy Space Center Director Richard Smith points out a portion of a solid rocket...