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. – 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. – In the airlock of the Payload Hazardous Servici...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the airlock of the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center prepare to remove the Cosmic Origins Spectrograp... More
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -- In the AO Building at Cape Kennedy Air Force Sta...
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -- In the AO Building at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, the Pioneer G spacecraft awaits the installation of its protective payload fairing. The interplanetary space probe is sched... More
View of payload bay of STS-62 Columbia and Dexterous End Effector
STS062-81-024 (4-18 March) --- This 70mm frame, photographed through the aft flight deck windows of the earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia, features activity with the Dexterous End Effector (DEE) on the Remo... More
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility prepare to begin p...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility prepare to begin prelaunch processing of the Huygens probe, which will study the clouds, atmosphere and surface of Saturnþs largest moon, Titan, as part of th... More
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility prepare to begin p...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility prepare to begin prelaunch processing of the Huygens probe, which will study the clouds, atmosphere and surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, as part of th... More
The descent module of the Titan-bound Huygens probe undergoes prefligh...
The descent module of the Titan-bound Huygens probe undergoes preflight processing on a support structure in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). The probe will study the clouds, atmosphere and surf... More
Workers prepare to move the shipping container with the Cassini orbite...
Workers prepare to move the shipping container with the Cassini orbiter inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) for prelaunch processing, testing and integration. The kscpao/release/1997/66-97.ht... More
Workers prepare to move the shipping container with the Cassini orbite...
Workers prepare to move the shipping container with the Cassini orbiter inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) for prelaunch processing, testing and integration. The kscpao/release/1997/66-97.ht... More
Workers prepare to move the shipping container with the Cassini orbite...
Workers prepare to move the shipping container with the Cassini orbiter inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) for prelaunch processing, testing and integration. The kscpao/release/1997/66-97.ht... More
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) stand aroun...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) stand around the upper experiment module and base of the Cassini orbiter during prelaunch processing, testing and integration in that facility. The Cas... More
A worker in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) stands beh...
A worker in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) stands behind the bottom side of the experiment platform for the Huygens probe that will accompany the Cassini orbiter to Saturn during prelaunch proc... More
An employee in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) sews th...
An employee in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) sews thermal insulation material on the front heat shield of the Huygens probe during prelaunch processing testing and integration in that facility... More
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) perform che...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) perform checkouts of the upper experiment module and base of the Cassini orbiter during prelaunch processing, testing and integration in that facility.... More
Employees in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) lower the...
Employees in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) lower the upper experiment module and base of the Cassini orbiter onto a work stand during prelaunch processing, testing and integration work in that... More
An employee in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) sews th...
An employee in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) sews thermal insulation material on the back cover and heat shield of the Huygens probe during prelaunch processing, testing and integration in tha... More
An employee in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) works o...
An employee in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) works on the top side of the experiment platform for the Huygens probe that will accompany the Cassini orbiter to Saturn during prelaunch processin... More
The forward shield is installed on the Titan/Cassini probe in the Payl...
The forward shield is installed on the Titan/Cassini probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF)
The forward shield is installed on the Titan/Cassini probe in the Payl...
The forward shield is installed on the Titan/Cassini probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF)
The forward shield is installed on the Titan/Cassini probe in the Payl...
The forward shield is installed on the Titan/Cassini probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF)
The aft shield is installed on the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazar...
The aft shield is installed on the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). The European Space Agency's Huygens probe will be attached to the Cassini spacecraft which will explore the... More
The aft shield is installed on the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazar...
The aft shield is installed on the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). The European Space Agency's Huygens probe will be attached to the Cassini spacecraft which will explore the... More
Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff prepare to remove the lift fixture used ...
Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff prepare to remove the lift fixture used to install the back cover on the Huygens probe, the conical structure in the white workstand, in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility a... More
Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff install the back cover on the Huygens pr...
Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff install the back cover on the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in July. Instruments mounted on the probe, which was developed by the European Space... More
Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff install the back cover on the Huygens pr...
Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff install the back cover on the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in July. Instruments mounted on the probe, which was developed by the European Space... More
A Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff member inspects the heat shield of the...
A Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff member inspects the heat shield of the Huygens probe after the shield was installed in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in July. Instruments mounted on the probe,... More
A Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff member installs thermal blanket insula...
A Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff member installs thermal blanket insulation on the back cover of the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in July. Instruments mounted on the probe, w... More
The Huygens probe is installed into the Cassini orbiter in the Payload...
The Huygens probe is installed into the Cassini orbiter in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF)
The Huygens probe is installed into the Cassini orbiter in the Payload...
The Huygens probe is installed into the Cassini orbiter in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF)
The Huygens probe is installed into the Cassini orbiter in the Payload...
The Huygens probe is installed into the Cassini orbiter in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF)
The Huygens probe is installed into the Cassini orbiter in the Payload...
The Huygens probe is installed into the Cassini orbiter in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF)
The Huygens probe is installed into the Cassini orbiter in the Payload...
The Huygens probe is installed into the Cassini orbiter in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF)
Flight mechanics from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasad...
Flight mechanics from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., work on the lifting fixture that picks up the Cassini spacecraft in KSC’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The orbiter al... More
The Cassini spacecraft is on view for the media in the Payload Hazardo...
The Cassini spacecraft is on view for the media in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The two-story-tall spacecraft, scheduled for launch on an Air Force Titan IV/... More
A crane lowers a protective transportation cover over the Cassini spac...
A crane lowers a protective transportation cover over the Cassini spacecraft, with its attached Huygens probe, at Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station for the spacecraft’s return trip to the Payload Haza... More
The Cassini spacecraft, with its attached Huygens probe, is lowered fr...
The Cassini spacecraft, with its attached Huygens probe, is lowered from Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station for its return trip to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). Damage to thermal ins... More
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) finish the ...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) finish the removal of a protective cover from the Cassini spacecraft with its attached Huygens probe. Damage to thermal insulation was discovered insid... More
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) begin to re...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) begin to remove a protective cover from the Cassini spacecraft with its attached Huygens probe. Damage to thermal insulation was discovered inside Huyg... More
Workers remove the Huygens probe from the Cassini spacecraft in the Pa...
Workers remove the Huygens probe from the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at KSC. The spacecraft was returned to the PHSF after damage to thermal insulation was discovered ... More
Workers remove the Huygens probe from the Cassini spacecraft in the Pa...
Workers remove the Huygens probe from the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at KSC. The spacecraft was returned to the PHSF after damage to thermal insulation was discovered ... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers remove the Huygens probe from ...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers remove the Huygens probe from the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at KSC. The spacecraft was returned to the PHSF after damage to th... More
Workers remove the Huygens probe from the Cassini spacecraft in the Pa...
Workers remove the Huygens probe from the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at KSC. The spacecraft was returned to the PHSF after damage to thermal insulation was discovered ... More
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers lift the front heat shield of...
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers lift the front heat shield of the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at KSC. The spacecraft was returned to the PHSF after damage to therma... More
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers lift part of the Huygens prob...
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers lift part of the Huygens probe aft cover assembly in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at KSC. The spacecraft was returned to the PHSF after damage to ther... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers examine the Huygens probe afte...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers examine the Huygens probe after removal from the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at KSC. The spacecraft was returned to the PHSF aft... More
Pieces of the Huygens probe internal insulating foam await inspection ...
Pieces of the Huygens probe internal insulating foam await inspection after removal from the probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at KSC. The spacecraft was returned to the PHSF after damage... More
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers place the back cover of the H...
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers place the back cover of the Huygens probe under its front heat shield in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at KSC. The spacecraft was returned to the PHSF ... More
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers lift the heat shield of the H...
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers lift the heat shield of the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at KSC. The spacecraft was returned to the PHSF after damage to thermal insu... More
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers place the back cover of the H...
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers place the back cover of the Huygens probe under its front heat shield in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at KSC. The spacecraft was returned to the PHSF ... More
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers lift the heat shield of the H...
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers lift the heat shield of the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at KSC. The spacecraft was returned to the PHSF after damage to thermal insu... More
The Cassini spacecraft, with the Huygens probe seen on the right in th...
The Cassini spacecraft, with the Huygens probe seen on the right in this photo, sits atop a Titan IVB expendable launch vehicle at Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, where it awaits placement of its p... More
At Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Station, the Mobile Service...
At Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Station, the Mobile Service Tower has been retracted away from the Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini spacecraft and its attached Huygens probe. This is the second... More
Inside the Vertical Processing Facility, the Chandra X-ray Observatory...
Inside the Vertical Processing Facility, the Chandra X-ray Observatory sits inside the payload canister, ready to be moved to Launch Pad 39B. Liftoff will take place no earlier than July 20 at 12:36 a.m. EDT ab... More
Inside the Vertical Processing Facility, doors on the payload canister...
Inside the Vertical Processing Facility, doors on the payload canister begin to close on the Chandra X-ray Observatory inside before being moved to Launch Pad 39B. Liftoff will take place no earlier than July 2... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Spacecraft Assembly and ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 place an antenna on the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP). Several other milestones must be completed while MAP is a... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) is ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) is worked on in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2. Several milestones must be completed while MAP is at SAEF-2, including an... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Spacecraft Assembly and ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 stand by while the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) is lifted to place it on a workstand. Several milestones must b... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsul...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2, the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) undergoes testing and checkout. Several milestones must be completed while MAP is at ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facil...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Genesis spacecraft is lifted out of its container before being moved to a workstand. Genesis is designed to collect samples of sola... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facil...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers lift the protective wrapping from Genesis - a spacecraft designed to collect samples of solar wind particles and return them to... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facil...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Genesis spacecraft is moved to a workstand. Genesis is designed to collect samples of solar wind particles and return them to Earth... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servici...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility check closely the solar arrays on the Genesis spacecraft. Genesis is designed to collect samples of solar wind particles and ret... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facil...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, both solar arrays on the Genesis spacecraft are deployed. Genesis is designed to collect samples of solar wind particles and return the... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) spa...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) spacecraft is lifted up the gantry on Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where it will undergo final testing and installati... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The morning sky is nearly clear over Lau...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The morning sky is nearly clear over Launch Complex 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and the waiting Boeing/Delta II rocket. The Atlantic Ocean can be seen on the horizon. T... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Boeing Delta II rocket is poised for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Boeing Delta II rocket is poised for flight on Launch Complex 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, after rollback of the Mobile Service Tower (right). Topping the rocket is ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Boeing Delta II rocket is poised for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Boeing Delta II rocket is poised for flight on Launch Complex 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, after rollback of the Mobile Service Tower. Topping the rocket is the payl... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - In the spacecraft processing facility on No...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - In the spacecraft processing facility on North Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Gravity Probe B experiment sits on an assembly and test stand where it has been subject to various prelau... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The interstage of the Delta II launch vehic...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The interstage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment is moved into the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., w... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The second stage of the Delta II launch vehi...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The second stage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment arrives at the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - Logos identify the mission of this Delta II ...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - Logos identify the mission of this Delta II rocket that will launch the Gravity Probe B experiment, developed by Stanford University, Lockheed Martin and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight C... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The second stage of the Delta II launch vehi...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The second stage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment arrives at the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - A worker in the spacecraft processing facil...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - A worker in the spacecraft processing facility on North Vandenberg Air Force Base checks the Gravity Probe B experiment during prelaunch testing. The Gravity Probe B will launch a pa... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - Logos identify the mission of this Delta II ...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - Logos identify the mission of this Delta II rocket that will launch the Gravity Probe B experiment, developed by Stanford University, Lockheed Martin and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight C... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The mobile service tower on Space Launch Com...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., rolls back from the Delta II rocket that will launch the Gravity Probe B experiment. The Gravity... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The first stage of the Delta II launch vehic...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The first stage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment is ready to be lifted up the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The first stage of the Delta II launch vehic...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The first stage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment is raised to a vertical position at Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The Gra... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The first stage of the Delta II launch vehic...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The first stage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment arrives at Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The Gravity Probe B will launch ... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The first stage of the Delta II launch vehi...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The first stage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment is lifted up the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. T... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The interstage of the Delta II launch vehicl...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The interstage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment is lifted up the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. It ... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The interstage of the Delta II launch vehic...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The interstage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment is moved into the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., w... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The interstage of the Delta II launch vehicl...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The interstage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment is prepared for lifting up the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Ba... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - Viewed from inside, the second stage of the ...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - Viewed from inside, the second stage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment is lifted up the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air F... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The second stage of the Delta II launch vehi...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The second stage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment is lifted up the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. T... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The second stage of the Delta II launch vehi...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The second stage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment is moved into the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. ... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The second stage of the Delta II launch vehic...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The second stage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment is lifted off the transporter after its arrival on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, ... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - Viewed from inside, the second stage of the ...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - Viewed from inside, the second stage of the Delta II launch vehicle for the Gravity Probe B experiment is lifted up the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air F... More
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - Workers on the mobile service tower at Space ...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - Workers on the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., check the Delta II rocket’s second stage as it is mated with the first stage. The Delta... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This logo for the Gravity Probe B missio...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This logo for the Gravity Probe B mission portrays the theory of curved spacetime and "frame-dragging," developed by Einstein and other scientists, that the mission will test. The... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A closeup of the top of the Gravity Pro...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A closeup of the top of the Gravity Probe B spacecraft in NASA’s Payload Processing Facility 1610 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after completion of prelaunch pr... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Gravity Probe B spacecraft is in NA...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Gravity Probe B spacecraft is in NASA’s Payload Processing Facility 1610 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after completion of prelaunch processing before going... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Gravity Probe B spacecraft is in NA...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Gravity Probe B spacecraft is in NASA’s Payload Processing Facility 1610 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after completion of prelaunch processing before going... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A closeup of the Gravity Probe B spacec...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A closeup of the Gravity Probe B spacecraft in NASA’s Payload Processing Facility 1610 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after completion of prelaunch processing be... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Gravity Probe B spacecraft is in NA...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Gravity Probe B spacecraft is in NASA’s Payload Processing Facility 1610 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after completion of prelaunch processing before going... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the clean room at KSC’s Payload Hazar...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the clean room at KSC’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the media (also dressed in clean room suits) learn about NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft (at left) from New Horizons... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the clean room at KSC’s Payload Hazar...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the clean room at KSC’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the New Horizons spacecraft is ready for a media event. Photographers and reporters will be able to photograph the... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload H...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the New Horizons spacecraft is shrouded in insulating blankets that were installed to serve as a heat shield. ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload H...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, a technician from the Applied Physics Laboratory adjusts part of the blanket that is being installed as a heat ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload H...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians from the Applied Physics Laboratory are installing blankets that serve as heat shields around the N... More