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S88-29076 (10 Jan 1988) --- KSC employees work together to carefully guide a 7,000 pound main engine into the number...
STS-27 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, is suspended via overhead crane, attached at four points, in the Kennedy...
A worker in the Payload Changeout Room, Launch Pad 39A, moves the Payload Ground Handling Mechanism away from the...
Crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) is underneath the mobile launcher May 31, 2018, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
Preparations are underway May 31, 2018, to move crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) under the mobile launcher at NASA's...
Crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) is moved under the mobile launcher May 31, 2018, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
Preparations are underway May 31, 2018, to move crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) under the mobile launcher at NASA's...
Crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) is underneath the mobile launcher May 31, 2018, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
Crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) is being moved under the mobile launcher May 31, 2018, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
S82-41171 (29 Nov. 1982) --- NASA?s tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS) is gently mated to its inertial upper...
Teams from NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and Space Launch System (SLS) practice SLS booster stacking with...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-106 payload within the SPACEHAB Module is shown after being loaded onto...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the flame trench deflector...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Payload Changeout Room, or PCR, on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed its “aluminum bird” systems test at Lockheed...
Teams from NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and Space Launch System (SLS) practice SLS booster stacking with...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- During the transfer the STS-106 payload to Atlantis on Launch Pad 39-B, a technician...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Payload Changeout Room at Launch Pad 39A, a technician works switches on the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Technicians facilitate the transfer the STS-106 payload to Atlantis on Launch Pad 39-B...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Launch Pad 39A, workers in the payload changeout room use the payload...
Teams from NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and Space Launch System (SLS) practice SLS booster stacking with...
Teams from NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and Space Launch System (SLS) practice SLS booster stacking with...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-106 payload within the SPACEHAB Module is shown after being loaded onto...
Teams from NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and Space Launch System (SLS) practice SLS booster stacking with...