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While photographing the Supermoon on September 17, 2024 for a NASA GRC Aerospace Frontiers article on the 2024...
The carrier plane, L-1011 Stargazer, that will give NASA NuSTAR and its rocket a lift to their airborne launch site...
The X-2, initially an Air Force program, was scheduled to be transferred to the civilian National Advisory Committee...
While photographing the Supermoon on September 17, 2024 for a NASA GRC Aerospace Frontiers article on the 2024...
Against the midnight blue of a high-altitude sky, Orbital Sciences’ Pegasus winged rocket booster ignites after...
Pictured is an artist's concept of the experimental X-37 Reusable Launch Vehicle re-entering Earth‘s atmosphere....
After delivering a French satellite for the EUTELSat Consortium, a Russian cargo plane, the Antonov 124, sits on the...
A Russian cargo plane, the Antonov 124, sits on the end of the Shuttle Landing Facility at KSC after delivering a...
An Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport plane approaches the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Marshall Islands - Orbital Sciences' L-1011 "Stargazer" aircraft takes off from the runway at...
S66-24482 (16 March 1966) --- An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop an Atlas rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 14...
A truck with a specialized transporter drives out of the cargo hold of an Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport plane at...
A truck with a specialized transporter drives away from an Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport plane at the Shuttle...
An Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport plane rolls to a stop at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space...
A truck with a specialized transporter drives out of the cargo hold of an Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport plane at...
After offloading of the Centaur upper stage from a Russian cargo plane, the Antenov 124, workers check the...
A truck with a specialized transporter drives out of the cargo hold of an Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport plane at...
Four of the five surviving X-15 pilots were on hand when astronaut wings were presented to the three NASA pilots who...
After offloading of the Centaur upper stage from a Russian cargo plane, the Antenov 124, workers check the...
Soichi Noguchi (shown) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), along with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins,...
After offloading of the Centaur upper stage from a Russian cargo plane, the Antenov 124, workers check the...
A truck with a specialized transporter drives out of the cargo hold of an Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport plane at...
An Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport plane opens its nose section at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy...
A truck with a specialized transporter drives out of the cargo hold of an Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport plane at...