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Like a rising sun lighting up the afternoon sky, the Space Shuttle Columbia soars from Launch Pad 39B at 2:46:00...
STS-106 Pilot Scott D. Altman is poised to take his turn at driving the M113, an armored personnel carrier, that is...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers recover a small rocket following its...
Teams with Boeing – NASA’s Prime Contractor for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket – mate the forward and...
Provided as a media resource, this reel includes soundbites from the following: * Terry Fong, chief roboticist,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES, arrives on a C-17...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-106 Mission Specialist Yuri I. Malenchenko (right) examines equipment at SPACEHAB,...
Edwards, Calif. – ED-0155-29 - Steve Lindsey, Sierra Nevada Corporation, or SNC, director of flight operations and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Node 1, the first U.S. element for the International Space Station, and attached...
Kathy Jackson, high school student from Houston, Texas, discusses her experiment with Dr. Robert Allen (left) and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At SPACEHAB, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., members of the STS-101 crew take part in Crew...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of the STS-101 crew share a light moment during Crew Equipment Interface Test...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- In an environmental enclosure in processing facility 1555 at Vandenberg Air...
The Space Test Program-Houston 6 (STP-H6) payload is being loaded into a transport truck at the Space Station...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-134 Mission Specialist Andrew Feustel performs a walkdown of space shuttle Endeavour's...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - One of the two solid rocket boosters used in the historic launch of the Space Shuttle...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, cable trays wind their way along the grating in...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a technician performs a wide-band...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, STS-122 Commander Stephen Frick checks out the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Astronauts John Young, commander, and Robert Crippen, pilot, are assisted by members of...
The Space Test Program-Houston 6 (STP-H6) payload is moved out of the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- During Crew Equipment Interface Test activities at SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral, Fla.,...
In Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, STS-106 Mission Specialists Edward T. Lu (center) and Yuri I. Malenchenko...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians check the...