The Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the launch of the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission, with a Saturn V rocket booster, 26th July 1971....
Kennedy Space Center Ice crew member Charles Stevenson testifying before Challenger Investigating commission.
Billboard along a highway leading to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida wishes 'Best of luck to the Columbia and its crew.' The Space Shuttle...
American journalist John Dille , magazine editor Ed Thompson , and astronaut Donald K. Slayton talk together outside the NASA Space Center, September...
Group portrait of the Apollo 14 astronauts at a prelaunch news conference, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. L-R: Edgar J Mitchell, Alan...
The new Mission Control Centre of the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, opened during the STS-70 mission. The screen on the right shows...
Space Shuttle Atlantis silhouetted against the sky as it lands on the Kennedy Space Center's runway 33.
The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The Shuttle carries a crew of five and the Tracking and Data Relay...
American astronaut Neil A Armstrong descends the ladder of a lunar module training vehicle during practice for an upcoming lunar landing mission,...
Portrait of Apollo 14 mission commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., wearing a spacesuit, smiles during preparation activities for the liftoff to the moon,...
An abstract smoke pattern after the space shuttle Challenger explosion, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
View of the Apollo 11 rocket standing with its gantry on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket served the first...
The Apollo Saturn 501 spacecraft coupled with the Service Module and Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter is moved into the Vehicle Assembly Building at...
The construction of the first stage of Apollo Saturn 502 , the rocket for lunar module Apollo 6 in the Vehicle Assembly Building of the Kennedy Space...
From left to right, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin Jnr, the crew of the lunar module Apollo 11 at the Kennedy...
The space shuttle Challenger takes off from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. 73 seconds later the shuttle exploded, killing its seven crew members.
Former astronaut Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin seated at the controls of a space shuttle simulator at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center's 'Spacecamp' complex...
Apollo 11 astronauts Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin and Neil Armstrong wearing space suits and carrying equipment during rehearsals for a moon landing at the...
Astronaut Neil Armstrong , commander of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, stands in front of a lunar module mock-up at the Space Center in...
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin take a break during training for the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission at the Space Center...
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin walking on a simulated moon surface at the Space Center in Houston, April 18th 1969. Both...
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, assisted by an unidentified technician, unload and adjust the passive seismometer during...
American physicist Ann Whitaker, an astronaut with NASA, pictured at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, December 22nd 1977.
American physicist Ann Whitaker, an astronaut with NASA, pictured at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, December 22nd 1977.
President Jimmy Carter and his military aide Captain Robert Peterson place the Congressional Space Medal around the neck of Neil Armstrong ,...
Former US First Lady Lady Bird Johnson listens as Director of the Johnson Space Center Dr Christopher C Kraft Jr reads a Dedication Citation,...
Members of former President Lyndon B Johnson's family, including former US First Lady Lady Bird Johnson , and former NASA Administrator James E Webb...
Present Richard Nixon presents astronaut William Pogue with NASA's Distinguished Service Medal at the Space Center in Houston, Texas, on March 20th,...
View of a uniformed soldier seated at an observation telescope in the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Zeyuan, Sichuan province, China, November 1988.
View of an unidentified figure who walks a water buffalo along a road passing the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Zeyuan, Sichuan province, China,...
Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, as seen from the Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS-77, 19th to 29th May 1996. STS-77 focused...
Flight director Tommy W Holloway looks at a monitor at a console in the mission operations control center of the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center's...
Space Shuttle Discovery rolls out to launch pad 39-A atop the crawler transporter at Kenendy Space Center March 3 in Cape Canaveral, Florida....
The space shuttle Discovery sits on Pad 39A on November3,2010 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA decided early Tuesday evening, November 2, to...
The space shuttle Atlantis STS-129 lifts off November 16, 2009 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis and its crew will deliver two control...
Mission Specialist Ellen Ochoa holds her son, Wilson Miles-Ochoa as she steps off the bus at the Cape Canaveral Air Station Skid Strip June 7, 1999....
The Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia, with its drag chute deployed, touches down on runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility after a successful...
Billows of exhaust roll across Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, as the Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Stardust spacecraft launches...
Inside the launch tower at Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers guide the Stardust spacecraft toward an opening to a Boeing Delta II rocket...
The protective canister is removed from around the Stardust spacecraft at Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. Preparations continue for...
Workers at Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, connect the third stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket , which is already attached to the...
Workers inside the launch tower at Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, watch as the third stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket is lowered for mating...
The cover is removed from the Stardust spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility prior to a media presentation. Stardust is targeted for...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, media representatives, dressed in protective suits, are updated by Project Manager Richard Grammier ,...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Casey McClellan , with Lockheed Martin, and an unidentified worker look over the spacecraft Stardust...
In the Vertical Processing Facility , workers check fittings and cables on the stand that will raise the Chandra X-ray Observatory to a vertical...
In the Vertical Processing Facility , the Chandra X-ray Observatory is the object of attention of the STS-93 crew and workers on the floor. STS-93,...
In the Space Shuttle Main Engine Facility, the STS-93 crew poses in the nozzle of Space Shuttle Columbia's main engine. From left, they are Mission...
In the Space Shuttle Main Engine Facility, , STS-93 crew members listen to Site Director Dan Hausman, with Rocketdyne, while looking over the main...
