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STS058-S-122 (18 Oct 1993) --- This distant shot of Columbia on its way to Earth-orbit was captured on film from the...
Artemis I Launch Video from WB-57 Aircraft
Employees atop NASA Dryden's main building celebrate the return flyby of the B-52B aircraft after it launched the...
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's workhorse B-52B launch aircraft, known as NASA 008, displays new markings.
STS062-S-061 (4 March 1994) --- An aerial view of early stages of the sixteenth launch of Space Shuttle Columbia was...
Aerial views of the STS-5 launch from T-38 chase aircraft Nov. 11, 1982. Shuttle Columbia can be seen as a small...
Al Bowers attaches a bungee cord to the Prandtl-d, as Kassidy McLaughlin prepares to release and launch the aircraft.
NASA's B-52B aircraft over the Dryden Flight Research Center after the successful launch of the second X-43A...
NASA's B-52B launch aircraft at sunset with the second X-43A hypersonic research vehicle attached to a modified...
The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket accelerate after launch from...
The second X-43A hypersonic research vehicle, mounted under the right wing of the B-52B launch aircraft, viewed from...
At Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S)...
NOAA's Geostationary Operation Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) has been offloaded from a C-5 transport aircraft...
At Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S)...
NOAA's Geostationary Operation Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is being offloaded from a C-5 transport aircraft...
At Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S)...
NOAA's Geostationary Operation Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is being offloaded from a C-5 transport aircraft...
At Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S)...
NOAA's Geostationary Operation Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is being offloaded from a C-5 transport aircraft...
NOAA's Geostationary Operation Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is being offloaded from a C-5 transport aircraft...
NOAA's Geostationary Operation Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) has been offloaded from a C-5 transport aircraft...
NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) will be loaded into a U.S. Air Force C-5M Super...
NOAA's Geostationary Operation Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is being offloaded from a C-5 transport aircraft...
The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket left the runway, carried aloft...