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Employees discuss one of the electric vehicles on display during Kennedy Space Center’s annual Earth Day...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Vapor trails follow space shuttle Atlantis as it approaches Runway 15 on the Shuttle Landing...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Vapor trails follow space shuttle Atlantis as it approaches Runway 15 on the Shuttle Landing...
Intern Kyle Yawn marked the boundaries of this trail by placing pushpins into cracks in the clay. Now, he...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Vapor trails follow space shuttle Atlantis as it approaches Runway 15 on the Shuttle Landing...
The trails have some curious features. Sometimes the clay gets pushed into a mound at the trail's end, as in this...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Vapor trails follow space shuttle Atlantis as it approaches Runway 15 on the Shuttle Landing...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Vapor trails follow space shuttle Atlantis as it touches down on Runway 15 on the Shuttle...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Vapor trails follow space shuttle Atlantis as it touches down on Runway 15 on the Shuttle...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Vapor trails follow space shuttle Atlantis as it approaches Runway 15 on the Shuttle Landing...
In addition to being evidence of past impacts, craters can serve another valuable scientific purpose. By counting...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, the body flap for the orbiter Discovery is prepared...
During the annual Earth Day celebration at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, guests have an opportunity to...
During the annual Earth Day celebration at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, guests have an opportunity to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Students from Ronald McNair Magnet School, Cocoa, Fla., watch the smoke trail of the...
George Diller interviews NASA Launch Manager Omar Baez and wraps up coverage of the STEREO launch. STEREO (Solar...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Clouds of smoke and steam fill Launch Pad 39A after liftoff of Space Shuttle...
Composite image of Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) data (contour) with a cut-out images of the T-38’s during a...
Range : 1.5 million km ( 930,000 miles ) This high resolution view of Jupitor's ring, part of a set obtained by...
ISS033-E-015386 (23 Oct. 2012) --- This view of Earth’s horizon, shows smoke trails from the launch of the Soyuz...
Earlier in the day, the tower was rolled back from the Boeing Delta II rocket. STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Distinctive with its black and white coloring and very long red legs trailing behind is...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --Trailing columns of fire, space shuttle Endeavour hurtles into the night sky, on the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-121 Mission Specialist Piers Sellers (left) and Commander Steven Lindsey (right)...