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A view from the side windows as plasma surrounds the vehicle during reentry on Orion's first flight test,...
A view from the top hatch window as plasma surrounds the vehicle during reentry on Orion's first flight test,...
A view from the side windows as plasma surrounds the vehicle during reentry on Orion's first flight test,...
A view from the top hatch window as plasma surrounds the vehicle during reentry on Orion's first flight test,...
A view from the top hatch window as plasma surrounds the vehicle during reentry on Orion's first flight test,...
G61-00030 (4 Nov. 1959) --- Launch of Little Joe-2 from Wallops Island carrying Mercury spacecraft test article. The...
iss040e098572 (8/19/2014) --- A dark view of the Orbital Cygnus 2 reentry taken by the Expedition 40 crew. Light...
ISS028-E-008470 (19 June 2011) --- In the Unity node of the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Ron Garan,...
ISS028-E-008464 (19 June 2011) --- In the Unity node of the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Ron Garan,...
ISS028-E-008467 (19 June 2011) --- In the Unity node of the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Ron Garan,...
ISS028-E-008463 (19 June 2011) --- In the Unity node of the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Ron Garan,...
Scout launch vehicle lift off on Wallops Island in 1965. The Scout launch vehicle was used for unmanned small...
B59-00557 (9 Sept. 1959) --- U.S. Air Force photo of Big Joe launch vehicle after launching at Cape Canaveral,...
The unberthed Kounotori H-II Transfer Vehicle 5 (HTV-5) is grappled by the Canadarm2 Space Station Remote...
The HL-10, seen here parked on the ramp, was one of five lifting body designs flown at NASA's Dryden Flight Research...
B59-00556 (9 Sept. 1959) --- U.S. Air Force photo of Big Joe launch vehicle after launching at Cape Canaveral,...
A hot jet research facility, used extensively in the design and development of the reentry heat shield on the...
The Titan II liftoff. The Titan II launch vehicle was used for carrying astronauts on the Gemini mission. The Gemini...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board look over the nose of Space...
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, has begun a series of engine tests on the...
Engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) have begun a series of engine tests on a new breed of space...
S74-24677 (June 1974) --- A close-up view of the descent vehicle of the Soyuz spacecraft training mock-up on display...
Launched atop an Atlas booster, the Agena target vehicle (ATV) was a spacecraft used by NASA to develop and practice...
S63-03978 (1963) --- Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., prime pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) mission, is strapped...