CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In high bay 4 of the Vehicle Assembly Building ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In high bay 4 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane moves the Ares I-X crew module simulator toward a stand at right. Other Ares I-X segment... More
Bumper V-2 Launch, NASA history collection
(July 24, 1950) A new chapter in space flight began in July 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida: the Bumper 8. Shown above, Bumper 8 was an ambitious two-stage rocket program t... More
NASA Jupiter rocket - Early Rockets, Army ballistic missile agency
The Jupiter rocket was designed and developed by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA). ABMA launched the Jupiter-A at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 1, 1957. The Jupiter vehicle was a direct derivative o... More
Photograph of the Mercury-Redstone 3 Launch
Original caption: Launch of America's first man in space on the Mercury-Redstone-3 from Cape Canaveral launch site on May 5, 1961. Historical Photograph Files
NASA Explorer 1 Launch, Army ballistic missile agency
(January 31, 1958) Launch of Jupiter-C/Explorer 1 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 31, 1958. After the Russian Sputnik 1 was launched in October 1957, the launching of an American satellite assumed much gr... More
Vanguard Satellite SLV-2 Being Examined at Cape Canaveral
Vanguard satellite SLV-2 is being checked out at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Solar X-ray radiation satellite was launched June 26, 1958. The second stage of the launch vehicle ended prematurely due to low cham... More
Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher
Launch of Jupiter-C/Explorer 1 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 31, 1958. After the Russian Sputnik 1 was launched in October 1957, the launching of an American satellite assumed much greater importance. A... More
Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher
Launch of Jupiter-C/Explorer 1 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 31, 1958. After the Russian Sputnik 1 was launched in October 1957, the launching of an American satellite assumed much greater importance. A... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Ares IX upper stage segments’ ballast assemblie...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Ares IX upper stage segments’ ballast assemblies are positioned along the floor of high bay 4 in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, part of the preparations for... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NAS...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Resupply Stowage Platform, or RSP, is moved into the multi-purpose logistics module Leonardo. The ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kenne...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, hardware that will be used in the launch of the Ares I-X rocket is being offloaded from the C-5 aircraft. The ha... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach tal...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach talks to the media in the RLV Hangar, site of the collection of Columbia debris undergoing examination. The items shipped to KSC number more t... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-107 Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-107 Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, participates in Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities, a standard part of Shuttle launch preparation... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Hyster forklift moves NASA's Juno spacecraft...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Hyster forklift moves NASA's Juno spacecraft into Astrotech's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. to begin final testing and preparations for launch. The solar-power... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With more than 12 times the thrust produced by ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With more than 12 times the thrust produced by a Boeing 747 jet aircraft, the Constellation Program's Ares I-X test rocket roars off Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in F... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2, tec...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2, technicians on the Hyster forklift maneuver main engine 1 for installation on space shuttle Endeavour. The scheduled launch vehicle for the ST... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Fac...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a transportation canister is nearly closed around a Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne space shuttle ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the NASA Railroad yard at Kennedy Space Cent...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the NASA Railroad yard at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, helium tank cars are lifted from their trucks onto flat cars in preparation for a journey to the Florida East Coast Railway i... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the clean room of the Payload Hazardous Proc...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the clean room of the Payload Hazardous Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a worker from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center uses black light inspection for a thorough ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kenn...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-135 crew members arrived aboard their T-38 jets at about 5:30 p.m. EDT to participate in a launch coun... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Morpheus lander, a vertical test bed veh...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Morpheus lander, a vertical test bed vehicle, is being transported out from its checkout building for a short trip to a launch position at the Shuttle Landing Facility, or SLF, at ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kenned...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-128 Pilot Kevin Ford walks away from the Shuttle Training Aircraft, or STA, after completing shuttle landing ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians in the Payload Hazardous Servicin...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility remove the protective cover from the Wide Field Camera 3, or WFC3. The WFC3 is part of the payload on space shuttle Atlantis for... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air F...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is saluted by officers from Patrick Air Force Base as he boards Air Force Two for a... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-129 Pilot Barry E. Wilmore, right, arrives at the Shuttle Landing Facility to practice landings in a Shuttle Training Aircraft in preparatio... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the Launch Control Center, Robbie...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the Launch Control Center, Robbie Ashley, STS-115 payload manager, and Pat Lesley, with United Space Alliance, receive a special award from (at left) Shuttle Launch Directo... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Robotic arm experts get ready for ultras...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Robotic arm experts get ready for ultrasound testing on Endeavour's robotic arm. A scrape of the honeycomb shell around the arm occurred while work platforms were being installed ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility 1 at NASA's Kenn...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility 1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United Space Alliance technicians, lying on a work platform, remove window #8 from the top of the crew module o... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kenn...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the external tank for space shuttle Atlantis is lowered toward the solid rocket boosters (the nose cone of one of the boos... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers at the Solid Rocket Booster Disassembl...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers at the Solid Rocket Booster Disassembly Facility at Hangar AF on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, inspect the left spent booster used during space shuttle Discovery's... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kenn...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-135 Pilot Doug Hurley pauses for a photo. The space shuttle Atlantis crew arrived at Kennedy at about 5:30 ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Taken from the Vehicle Assembly Building roof ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Taken from the Vehicle Assembly Building roof at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this image shows the Press Site complex with a myriad of vehicles, satellite trucks and trailers ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral A...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a Lockheed Martin Atlas Centaur IIA (AC-144) rocket is lifted up the launch tower. The rocket will be used in the launch o... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Ken...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the external fuel tank for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission is moved out of the checkout cell. The tan... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Program Launch Integration Manag...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Program Launch Integration Manager Mike Moses looks on proudly as Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach holds up a Discovery banner signed by the STS-133 astronauts, at a n... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility 2 at NASA's Kenn...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility 2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, members of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 crew participate in a crew equipment interface test, or CEIT. From left are ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the NASA Railroad Yard at NASA’s Kennedy Spa...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the NASA Railroad Yard at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, preparations are under way for the departure of a train made up of tank cars. The railroad’s track runs past Kennedy’... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility 2 at NASA's Kenn...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility 2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, members of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 crew participate in a crew equipment interface test, or CEIT. Shown here is ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-134 Mission Specialist Greg Chamitoff sign...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-134 Mission Specialist Greg Chamitoff signs the space shuttle wall tribute in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Kennedy employees who have supp... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly gets behind the c...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly gets behind the controls of a Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) to perform touch-and-go landings on the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA’s Ken...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a United Space Alliance technician monitors the progress as an overhead crane moves one of Endeavour’s main pr... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Merritt Island Launch Annex (MILA) Spac...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Merritt Island Launch Annex (MILA) Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network Station at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Patrick Air Force Base Color Guard presents the U.S... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket boost...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, and its crew are preparing to recover the left spent booster from the Atlantic Ocean. The round objects on deck are larg... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach proudly ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach proudly displays a space shuttle Atlantis banner for STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson, front right, and Pilot Doug Hurley. Four astronauts brought A... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Convoy Command Center vehicle is positione...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Convoy Command Center vehicle is positioned on the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida awaiting the landing of space shuttle Atlantis. The comman... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kenne...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, STS-129 Mission Specialist Robert L. Satcher Jr. addresses the media and others on hand to welcome his crew to Florida. ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Deputy Director of NASA's Stennis Space Center Patrick Scheuermann and Mission Management Chair Mi... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians in the Payload Hazardous Servicin...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center install a specialized overhead crane onto the Fine Guidance Sensor, or FGS. The sensor will be lif... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A Rawinsonde weather balloon sails into...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A Rawinsonde weather balloon sails into the sky after release from the Cape Canaveral forecast facility in Florida. The release was planned as part of a media tour prior to the ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Columbia Debris Hangar, Shuttle ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Columbia Debris Hangar, Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach points to some of the tiles recovered from the orbiter as he explains to the media about activities that have... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Expedition 6 crew member Nikolai Budarin...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Expedition 6 crew member Nikolai Budarin relaxes during fit check of his launch and entry suit, part of Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities. He and the rest of the cre... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - From the viewing area of the Operations a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - From the viewing area of the Operations and Support Building II, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney will be able to view the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-121. Chen... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach an...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach answers reporters' questions in the RLV Hangar. Leinbach is overseeing assessment of the debris as it is delivered to KSC. The Columbia Rec... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A C-17 aircraft arrives on the Shuttle Landing ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A C-17 aircraft arrives on the Shuttle Landing Facility parking apron at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The aircraft is delivering the MAVEN spacecraft for processing ahead of a ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, memb...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, members of the news media are briefed on the agency's Space Launch System SLS Program Todd May, program manager for Space Launch Systems SLS at ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, Buddy Valastro from Carlo's Bakery (Cake Boss) speaks to the crowd about his tribute to the workforce and NASA's successful Spa... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NAS...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, members of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 crew participate in a crew equipment interface test, or CEIT. Here, ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, launch team members monitor the countdown to the launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-135 ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Steady progress is made to prepare equipment fo...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Steady progress is made to prepare equipment for construction of the launch platform for the Project Morpheus lander at the midfield of the Shuttle Landing Facility, or SLF, at NASA’s Ken... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of NASA's K...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United Space Alliance Recovery Operations personnel pull a colorful main parachute for the Ares I-X rocket o... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Center Director Bob Cabana watches the success...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Center Director Bob Cabana watches the successful launch of space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-126 mission in the Firing Room of the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket boost...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, tows a spent booster from space shuttle Atlantis' final launch, to Port Canaveral in Florida. The shuttle's two solid r... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers make adjustments on the first p...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers make adjustments on the first part of the fairing around the TDRS-J satellite before encapsulation continues. The satellite is scheduled to be launched aboard a Lockheed M... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NAS...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure Carrier, or LMC, lowered into the payload ca... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kenne...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers prepare to roll the transportation case protecting the Russian-built Mini Research Module1, or MRM1, fro... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Radar operator Scott Peabody tests the ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Radar operator Scott Peabody tests the X-band radar array installed on the solid rocket booster retrieval ship Liberty before launch of Space Shuttle Discovery. It is one of two... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane lowers a solid rocket...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane lowers a solid rocket booster segment toward a railroad car at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The yellow transportation end cover has already... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A replica shuttle main engine (RSME) is poised ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A replica shuttle main engine (RSME) is poised for installation on space shuttle Discovery in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The RSME is one o... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a fu...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a full-size mock-up of the Orion spacecraft and launch abort system were transported to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. In the backgro... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers unload a container holding the cruise ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers unload a container holding the cruise stage, one of the first three elements for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) that arrived at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After their arrival at KSC, STS-107 Payl...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After their arrival at KSC, STS-107 Payload Commander Michael Anderson (center) and Pilot William "Willie" McCool (right) talk with Robert Hanley, who is mission lead with the Vehi... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 mission crew ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 mission crew members arrive in T-38 training jets at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility. Mission Specialist Nicole Stott is seen here... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air F...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Air Force Two, carrying U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and his family, is ready for a return trip to Washington. ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NA...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, members of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 crew participate in a crew equipment interface test, or CEIT. Here,... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Kennedy Space Center's Apollo/Saturn V C...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Kennedy Space Center's Apollo/Saturn V Center, former NASA astronauts, from the left, William Thornton, Karol Bobko and Robert Crippen recall experiences during the Astronaut Schol... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Viewed from across the Turn Basin in the Launc...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Viewed from across the Turn Basin in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Pegasus Barge is bathed in lights. The barge is being prepared to be towed ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility 1 at NASA's Kenn...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility 1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United Space Alliance technicians roll the test equipment away from an external tank door on space shuttle Atla... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Astrotech payload processin...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. install thermal insulation on NASA's Juno magnetometer boom. The boom structure is attached to Juno's solar a... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –In Orbiter Processing Facility 3 at NASA's Kenne...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –In Orbiter Processing Facility 3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-128 crew members check out the space shuttle Discovery's robotic arm. Seen here are Mission Specialists Chr... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3 at NASA's ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane lifts the gaseous nitrogen tank from space shuttle Discovery's payload bay with the aid of a "fish ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Pegasus barge carrying the external tank ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Pegasus barge carrying the external tank for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is tied to the dock in the turn basin in the Launch Complex 39 ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A forklift operator offloads NASA's Radiation B...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A forklift operator offloads NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probe B, enclosed in a protective shipping container, from a flatbed truck at the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket boost...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, tows the right spent booster from space shuttle Atlantis' final launch, as it is taken to Port Canaveral in Florida. The... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The crew of space shuttle Discovery's STS-12...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The crew of space shuttle Discovery's STS-124 mission arrives at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center aboard T-38 jet trainers to get ready for launch. Seen her... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Alan Thirkettle, the International Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Alan Thirkettle, the International Space Station Program Manager for ESA, the European Space Agency, and Mauro Piermaria, the ESPERIA mission manager for ASI, the Italian Space Age... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - STS-129 Commander Charles O. Hobaugh, left, is ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - STS-129 Commander Charles O. Hobaugh, left, is welcomed by Space Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The six a... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Endeavour is seen inside the Mate...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Endeavour is seen inside the Mate-Demate Device, or MDD, at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The center's Vehicle Assembly Building, o... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside a test cell in the Vehicle Assembly Buil...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside a test cell in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a portion of Atlantis’ external tank is sealed to prevent contamination so that technicians can replace... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At SPACEHAB, in Cape Canaveral, the STS-...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At SPACEHAB, in Cape Canaveral, the STS-101 crew inspect equipment and payload for their mission. From left to right are Mission Specialist Edward Tsang Lu, Mary Ellen Weber (Ph.D.... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kenn...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-135 Pilot Doug Hurley arrived aboard a T-38 jet. The STS-135 crew is at Kennedy to participate in a launch ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this aerial view of the mobile launcher park site area north of the 525-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building shows a new mobile launcher, or ML, ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kenne...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA's GOES-P meteorological satellite is moved to the edge of the cargo bay of a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft f... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach briefs media about the launch status of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mi... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-123 Mission Specialist Garrett Rei...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-123 Mission Specialist Garrett Reisman works at putting on his gloves while suiting up for the launch dress rehearsal, culmination of the terminal countdown demonstration tes... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Team members stationed at consoles in the Laun...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Team members stationed at consoles in the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida monitor space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank as it is loaded with more t... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An Atlas/Centaur booster arrives at Cap...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An Atlas/Centaur booster arrives at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in preparation for the launch of TDRS-J. The third in a series of telemetry satellites, TDRS-J will help reple... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SCAPE vehicles are in position at the Shuttle L...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SCAPE vehicles are in position at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the event a return-to-landing-site is needed after launch of space shuttle Ende... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- From the deck of Liberty Star, one of tw...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- From the deck of Liberty Star, one of two KSC solid rocket booster recovery ships, a crane lowers a one-man submarine into the ocean near Cape Canaveral, Fla. Called DeepWorker 200... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The crew of space shuttle Discovery's STS-12...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The crew of space shuttle Discovery's STS-124 mission arrive at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility to take part in the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, or TCDT.... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA’s ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United Launch Alliance technicians provide assistance as a large crane is lowered toward the right orbital ... More