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STS064-74-052 (9-20 Sept. 1994) --- Astronauts onboard the space shuttle Discovery used a 70mm camera to capture...
On June 28, 2011, Holley Kelly, a teacher from Farragut High School, helped retrieve the CTD/Rosette ensemble from...
Global tropospheric methane for August 2005 retrieved from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder AIRS on NASA Aqua satellite.
On July 12, 2011, crew from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy retrieved a canister dropped by parachute from a...
U.S.S. Hornet, prime recovery vessel for the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission, moves toward the Apollo 12 Command...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The nose cap and the top of a spent booster can be seen bobbing in the Atlantic Ocean,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A worker on Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, manipulates a...
AIRS Retrieved Temperature Isotherms over Southern Europe viewed from the west, September 8, 2002. The isotherms in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Chief Mate Jamie Harris is steering Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Chief Mate Jamie Harris works at the chart table on the bridge at night under a red light so...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After splashing down, the nose cap of the left spent booster bobs in the Atlantic Ocean as...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Part of a spent booster is seen in the background bobbing in the Atlantic Ocean as deck...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Chief Mate Jamie Harris is steering Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- An expanse of ocean is seen on the horizon as Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A flotation device is secured to the railing of Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers on the deck of Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Rubber bumpers are stowed on the deck of Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster...
This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Sample Retrieval Lander that would carry a small rocket (about...
This view taken through overhead window W7 on Columbia's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102's, aft flight deck shows the Long...
51L-10162 (8-9 March 1986) --- View of the left solid rocket booster first piece retrieval #11 (STS-51L space...
S62-00941 (20 Feb. 1962) --- The Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) "Friendship 7" spacecraft is retrieved from the Atlantic...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The solid rocket booster SRB retrieval ships, Liberty Star and Freedom Star, are docked in...
S65-18733 (23 March 1965) --- Astronauts Virgil I. Grissom (left) and John W. Young are shown aboard a helicopter...
ISS005-E-19049 (29 October 2002) --- Astronaut Peggy A. Whitson, Expedition Five flight engineer, retrieves an...