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Mercury Atlas VII - Orbital sunset

Mercury Atlas VII - Orbital sunset

The original caption reads: View of Orbital sunset taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative,35mm. Categories: Earth Observations Resolution Format: 35MM CN.... More

Mercury Atlas VII - overexposed Earth Observations

Mercury Atlas VII - overexposed Earth Observations

The original caption reads: Overexposed Earth Observations taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative,35mm. Categories: Earth Observations Resolution Format: ... More

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

The original caption reads: Earth Observations taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. View is slightly out of focus. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative,35mm. Categories: Earth Observations ... More

Mercury Atlas VII - overexposed Earth Observations

Mercury Atlas VII - overexposed Earth Observations

The original caption reads: Overexposed Earth Observations taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative,35mm. Categories: Earth Observations Resolution Format: ... More

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

The original caption reads: Earth Observations taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative, 35mm. Categories: Earth Observations Resolution Format: 35MM CN. Mercury VII

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

The original caption reads: Earth Observations taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. View is slightly out of focus. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative,35mm. Categories: Earth Observations ... More

Mercury Atlas VII - Orbital sunset

Mercury Atlas VII - Orbital sunset

The original caption reads: View of Orbital sunset taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative,35mm. Categories: Earth Observations Resolution Format: 35MM CN.... More

Mercury Atlas VII - overexposed Earth Observations

Mercury Atlas VII - overexposed Earth Observations

The original caption reads: Overexposed Earth Observations taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative,35mm. Categories: Earth Observations Resolution Format: ... More

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

The original caption reads: Earth Observations taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. View is slightly out of focus. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative,35mm. Categories: Earth Observations ... More

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

The original caption reads: Earth Observations taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative, 35mm. Categories: Earth Observations Resolution Format: 35MM CN. Mercury VII

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

The original caption reads: Earth Observations taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. View is slightly out of focus. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative,35mm. Categories: Earth Observations ... More

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

The original caption reads: Earth Observations taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative, 35mm. Categories: Earth Observations Resolution Format: 35MM CN. Mercury VII

MERCURY-ATLAS (MA)-9 - ATLAS BOOSTER 130D - PRELAUNCH ACTIVITIES - ASTRONAUT COOPER - CAPE

MERCURY-ATLAS (MA)-9 - ATLAS BOOSTER 130D - PRELAUNCH ACTIVITIES - AST...

S63-03980 (1963) --- Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., prime pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) mission, in flight in a Convair TF-102 aircraft. Photo credit: NASA

Launched atop an Atlas booster, the Agena target vehicle (ATV) was a spacecraft used by NASA to develop and practice orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the Apollo program lunar missions. This particular launch preceded the Gemini 12, which launched aboard a Titan launch vehicle one and one half hours later. The objective was for Agena and Gemini to rendezvous in space and practice docking procedures. An intermediate step between Project Mercury and the Apollo Program, the Gemini Program's major objectives were to subject two men and supporting equipment to long duration flights, to perfect rendezvous and docking with other orbiting vehicles, methods of reentry, and landing of the spacecraft. n/a

Launched atop an Atlas booster, the Agena target vehicle (ATV) was a s...

Launched atop an Atlas booster, the Agena target vehicle (ATV) was a spacecraft used by NASA to develop and practice orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the Apollo program lunar m... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson sits at the controls in the flight deck of space shuttle Discovery in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Robinson is helping John Glenn mark the 50th anniversary of being the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth inside the NASA Mercury Project's Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn later returned to space in October 1998 as a payload specialist aboard Discovery's STS-95 mission. Robinson was the payload commander of STS-95.        Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Shuttle Discovery currently is being prepared for display at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Photo credit: Cory Huston KSC-2012-1456

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson sits at the co...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson sits at the controls in the flight deck of space shuttle Discovery in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Robin... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- John Glenn and his wife, Annie, left, enter Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where space shuttle Discovery is being prepared for public display. Glenn is at the space center to mark the 50th anniversary of being the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth inside the NASA Mercury Project's Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn later returned to space in October 1998 as a payload specialist aboard Discovery's STS-95 mission.             Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Shuttle Discovery currently is being prepared for display at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Photo credit: Cory Huston KSC-2012-1443

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- John Glenn and his wife, Annie, left, enter Or...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- John Glenn and his wife, Annie, left, enter Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where space shuttle Discovery is being prepared for public displ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn poses in front of the Mercury 7 memorial near Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Glenn and Carpenter launched from the pad on Atlas rockets inside Mercury capsules in 1962. The two astronauts, part of the original class of seven astronauts chosen by NASA, were taking part in events celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's Mercury mission MA-6, on Feb. 20, 1962.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: NASA/ Cory Huston KSC-2012-1468

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn poses in front of...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn poses in front of the Mercury 7 memorial near Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Glenn and Carpenter launched from the pad on Atlas r... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1507

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson speaks during the "On Sh...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. T... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Bob Cabana talks to guests about the Mercury Project's Atlas rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building. At the space center in Florida, Cabana is helping John Glenn mark the 50th anniversary of being the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth inside the NASA Mercury Project's Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn later returned to space in October 1998 as a payload specialist aboard space shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission.         Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Cory Huston KSC-2012-1460

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Bob Cabana talks to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Bob Cabana talks to guests about the Mercury Project's Atlas rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building. At the space center in Florida, Cabana is helping John Gle... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Former Kennedy Space Center directors Jay Honeycutt, left, and Bob Crippen, right, talk during a luncheon Feb. 17, 2012, celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's Mercury mission MA-6, on Feb. 20, 1962.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1413

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Former Kennedy Space Center directors Jay Honey...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Former Kennedy Space Center directors Jay Honeycutt, left, and Bob Crippen, right, talk during a luncheon Feb. 17, 2012, celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began wit... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana makes remarks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. Looking on are U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, left, and event MC John Zarella. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1480

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana makes ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana makes remarks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mi... More

ATLAS THRUST SECTION MODEL, NASA Technology Images

ATLAS THRUST SECTION MODEL, NASA Technology Images

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 10/26/1977 Photographer: MARTIN BROWN Keywords: Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A truck moves the shrouded Atlas V first stage booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's skid strip in Florida on its way to the Atlas Space Operations Center on CCAFS. The booster arrived at CCAFS aboard a Russian AH-124-100 aircraft. The Atlas V is the launch vehicle for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS.  Launch is scheduled no earlier than May 20. LCROSS and LRO are the first missions in NASA's plan to return humans to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost by 2020.   Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2009-1929

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A truck moves the shrouded Atlas V first stage ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A truck moves the shrouded Atlas V first stage booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's skid strip in Florida on its way to the Atlas Space Operations Center on CCAFS. The booster ... More

A nighttime view of a GCM-16 Atlas "F" rocket being launched

A nighttime view of a GCM-16 Atlas "F" rocket being launched

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released... More

US Navy Seabees ride atop a dump truck which is on an Assault Craft Unit 2 (ACU 2) utility landing craft is in the well deck of the dock landing ship USS PORTLAND (LSD 37). The PORTLAND is transporting equipment which will be used to repair a flood-damaged railroad during exercise ATLAS RAIL

US Navy Seabees ride atop a dump truck which is on an Assault Craft Un...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RAIL Country: Tunisia (TUN) Scene Camera Operator: PH3(Ac) Stephen L. Batiz Release Status: Released to Public Combined... More

Tunisian dock workers watch as the dock landing ship USS PORTLAND (LSD 37) arrive in port. The PORTLAND is transporting equipment which will be used to repair a flood-damaged railroad during exercise ATLAS RAIL

Tunisian dock workers watch as the dock landing ship USS PORTLAND (LSD...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RAIL Country: Tunisia (TUN) Scene Camera Operator: PH3(Ac) Stephen L. Batiz Release Status: Released to Public Combined... More

STS056-91-052 - STS-056 - Payload bay view with ATLAS pallet

STS056-91-052 - STS-056 - Payload bay view with ATLAS pallet

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of the payload bay and the ATLAS Earth Atmosphere research pallet experiment. The SPARTAN satellite is absent and has not yet been retrieved. Sub... More

STS056-91-056 - STS-056 - Payload bay view with ATLAS pallet

STS056-91-056 - STS-056 - Payload bay view with ATLAS pallet

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of the payload bay and the ATLAS Earth Atmosphere research pallet experiment. The SPARTAN satellite is absent and has not yet been retrieved. Sub... More

STS056-08-025 - STS-056 - Views of the ATLAS atmospheric study pallet and SPARTAN solar satellite.

STS056-08-025 - STS-056 - Views of the ATLAS atmospheric study pallet ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of the payload bay showing the ATmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science 2 (ATLAS) payload on its pallet and the Shuttle Pointed Autonom... More

STS056-09-019 - STS-056 - Views of the ATLAS atmospheric study pallet and SPARTAN solar satellite.

STS056-09-019 - STS-056 - Views of the ATLAS atmospheric study pallet ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Scenic views of the payload bay and Earth limb showing the ATmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science 2 (ATLAS) payload on its pallet and the S... More

STS056-85-003 - STS-056 - ATLAS 2 experiment in payload bay

STS056-85-003 - STS-056 - ATLAS 2 experiment in payload bay

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of the Atmospheric Laboratory Applications and Science 2 (ATLAS) experiment in the payload bay. The Spartan satellite is not in these views of the... More

STS056-91-051 - STS-056 - Payload bay view with ATLAS pallet

STS056-91-051 - STS-056 - Payload bay view with ATLAS pallet

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of the payload bay and the ATLAS Earth Atmosphere research pallet experiment. The SPARTAN satellite is absent and has not yet been retrieved. Sub... More

The Atlas 1 (AC-73) carrying the GOES-1, the first of five next-generation advanced weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), sits poised on Complex 36-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ready for launch. 94PC-583

The Atlas 1 (AC-73) carrying the GOES-1, the first of five next-genera...

The Atlas 1 (AC-73) carrying the GOES-1, the first of five next-generation advanced weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), sits poised on Complex 36-B at Cape Canaver... More

Russian Space Forces arrive at the first stop of a five day tour of U.S. military facilities. The highlight of the tour was the Titan II and IV, and the Atlas booster assembly buildings. The visitors were briefed on assembley procedures and got a first hand look at the booster stages

Russian Space Forces arrive at the first stop of a five day tour of U....

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. Lou Briscese Release ... More

A Martin Marietta Atlas IIA is on the launch pad just before a successful launch from Complex 36A, at 1757 hours EDT. The AC-107 is carrying a Direct Broadcasting Satellite (DBS-2) for DIRECTV, INC (TM)

A Martin Marietta Atlas IIA is on the launch pad just before a success...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Rele... More

A Lockheed Martin Corporation Atlas II AS/AC-115 is poised on Launch Complex 36B. It is ready to carry the INTELSAT VII #3 into orbit

A Lockheed Martin Corporation Atlas II AS/AC-115 is poised on Launch C...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Rvits Still Image Laboratory ... More

A Lockheed Martin Atlas IIA/AC114 is successfully launched from Complex 36A at 7:48 P.M. EST. It is carrying the Mobile Communications Satellite (MSAT) into orbit

A Lockheed Martin Atlas IIA/AC114 is successfully launched from Comple...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Rvits Still Image Laboratory ... More

The first Atlas launch from the Eastern Range for 1996 successfully lifted off from CX 36B, at 8:15 p.m. EST. The Lockheed Martin Astronautics Atlas IIAS, designated AC-126, was carrying the Palapa C1 communications satellite

The first Atlas launch from the Eastern Range for 1996 successfully li...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cape Canaveral State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Rvits Still Image Laboratory Release Status: R... More

Air Force and Lockheed Martin Astronautics launch team crews successfully launched this Atlas IIA space launch vehicle designated AC-122 on April 3, 1996 at 06:01 p.m., EST from Complex 36A. This Atlas IIA carried the INMARSAT-3 1F communications satellite

Air Force and Lockheed Martin Astronautics launch team crews successfu...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Rvits Still Image Laboratory ... More

An Air Force and Lockheed Martin ATLAS IIA sits poised on Space Launch Complex 36A. This ATLAS IIA Space Launch Vehicle, designated AC-129 is carrying an INMARSAT-3 F3 satellite

An Air Force and Lockheed Martin ATLAS IIA sits poised on Space Launch...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Rvits Still Image Laboratory ... More

A Lockheed Martin ATLAS IIAS, designated AC-127, carrying a JCSAT (Japan Satellite System)-4 sits poised on Space Launch Complex 36B scheduled for liftoff today

A Lockheed Martin ATLAS IIAS, designated AC-127, carrying a JCSAT (Jap...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Rvits Still Image Laboratory ... More

The Atlas 1 rocket which will launch the GOES-K advanced weather satellite is unloaded from an Air Force C-5 air cargo plane after arrival at the Skid Strip, Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS). The Lockheed Martin-built rocket and its Centaur upper stage will form the AC-79 vehicle, the final vehicle in the Atlas 1 series which began launches for NASA in 1962. Future launches of geostationary operational environmental satellites (GOES) in the current series will be on Atlas II vehicles. GOES-K will be the third spacecraft to be launched in the new advanced series of geostationary weather satellites built for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The spacecraft will be designated GOES-10 in orbit. The launch of AC-79/GOES-K is targeted for April 24 from Launch Pad 36B, CCAS KSC-97pc356

The Atlas 1 rocket which will launch the GOES-K advanced weather satel...

The Atlas 1 rocket which will launch the GOES-K advanced weather satellite is unloaded from an Air Force C-5 air cargo plane after arrival at the Skid Strip, Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS). The Lockheed Mart... More

The GOES-K advanced weather satellite, already encapsulated in the Atlas 1 payload fairing, is carefully placed on the transporter at Astrotech Space Operations LP facility in Titusville. GOES-K will be the third spacecraft to be launched in the advanced series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES). The GOES satellites are owned and operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); NASA manages the design, development and launch of the spacecraft. GOES-K is targeted for an /1997/63-97.htm">April 24 launch</a> aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas 1 expendable launch vehicle (AC-79) from Launch Complex 36, Pad B, Cape Canaveral Air Station. The launch window opens at 1:50 a.m. and extends to 3:09 a.m. EDT. Once in orbit, GOES-K will become GOES-10, joining GOES-8 and GOES-9 in space KSC-97pc634

The GOES-K advanced weather satellite, already encapsulated in the Atl...

The GOES-K advanced weather satellite, already encapsulated in the Atlas 1 payload fairing, is carefully placed on the transporter at Astrotech Space Operations LP facility in Titusville. GOES-K will be the thi... More

The Atlas 1 payload fairing with the encapsulated GOES-K advanced weather satellite is being lifted into position for mating to the Lockheed Martin Atlas 1 expendable launch vehicle (AC-79) at Launch Complex 36, Pad B, Cape Canaveral Air Station. GOES-K will be the third spacecraft to be launched in the advanced series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES). The GOES satellites are owned and operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); NASA manages the design, development and launch of the spacecraft. GOES-K is targeted for an /1997/63-97.htm">April 24 launch</a> during a launch window which extends from 1:50-3:09 a.m. EDT. Once in orbit, GOES-K will become GOES-10, joining GOES-8 and GOES-9 in space KSC-97pc650

The Atlas 1 payload fairing with the encapsulated GOES-K advanced weat...

The Atlas 1 payload fairing with the encapsulated GOES-K advanced weather satellite is being lifted into position for mating to the Lockheed Martin Atlas 1 expendable launch vehicle (AC-79) at Launch Complex 36... More

A Martin Marietta Atlas II/AC-112 is successfully launched from Complex 36A at 8:25 P.M. EST. It is carrying an EHF Follow-on into orbit

A Martin Marietta Atlas II/AC-112 is successfully launched from Comple...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Rvits Still Imagery Laborator... More

A member of the North Carolina Army National Guard use the TRAK All-Terrain Lifter Army System (ATLAS) to position a pallet of plastic sheeting inside the Logistical Operations Support Area (LOSA), of the North Carolina Army National Guard, located at Kinston, North Carolina after Hurricane Bonnie

A member of the North Carolina Army National Guard use the TRAK All-Te...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kinston State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Tom Jaynes, Civilian Release Status: Released ... More

A front view of two TRAK All-Terrain Lifter Army System (ATLAS) parked on the runway at the Kinston Airport, the North Carolina Army National Guard's site for the Logistical Operations Support Area, following Hurricane Bonnie

A front view of two TRAK All-Terrain Lifter Army System (ATLAS) parked...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kinston State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Tom Jaynes, Civilian Release Status: Released ... More

A close up view of a member of the 230th Support Battalion, North Carolina Army National Guard as he operates the TRAK All-Terrain Lifter Army System (ATLAS) inside the North Carolina National Guard's old Kinston Armory after Hurricane Bonnie

A close up view of a member of the 230th Support Battalion, North Caro...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kinston State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Tom Jaynes, Civilian Release Status: Released ... More

After being transported from Astrotech, in Titusville, Fla., the encapsulated GOES-L weather satellite arrives at Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, to be mated to a Lockheed Martin Atlas II rocket. The fourth of a new advanced series of geostationary weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), GOES-L is a three-axis inertially stabilized spacecraft that will provide pictures and perform atmospheric sounding at the same time. After it is launched, the satellite will undergo checkout and then provide backup capabilities for the existing, aging operational satellites. Once in orbit, the satellite will become GOES-11, joining GOES-8, GOES-9 and GOES-10 in space. The GOES is scheduled for launch later this month KSC-99pp0497

After being transported from Astrotech, in Titusville, Fla., the encap...

After being transported from Astrotech, in Titusville, Fla., the encapsulated GOES-L weather satellite arrives at Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, to be mated to a Lockheed Martin Atlas II rocket. Th... More

At Cape Canaveral Air Station, members of the 1998 astronaut candidate class (Group 17) pose in front of the Project Mercury monument at Launch Complex 14 during a tour of the station's facilities. This 13-foot-high astronomical symbol for the planet Mercury was constructed by General Dynamics, the Atlas airframe contractor, and dedicated in 1964 in honor of those who flew in the Mercury 7 capsule. The class is at Kennedy Space Center taking part in training activities, including a flight awareness program, as well as touring the OPF, VAB, SSPF, SSME Processing Facility, launch pads, SLF, Apollo/Saturn V Center, and the crew quarters. The U.S. candidates in the '98 class are Clayton C. Anderson, Lee J. Archambault, Tracy E. Caldwell (Ph.D.), Gregory E. Chamitoff (Ph.D.), Timothy J. Creamer, Christopher J. Ferguson, Michael J. Foreman, Michael E. Fossum, Kenneth T. Ham, Patricia C. Hilliard (M.D.), Gregory C. Johnson, Gregory H. Johnson, Stanley G. Love (Ph.D.), Leland D. Melvin, Barbara R. Morgan, William A. Oefelein, John D. Olivas (Ph.D.), Nicholas J.M. Patrick (Ph.D.), Alan G. Poindexter, Garrett E. Reisman (Ph.D.), Steven R. Swanson, Douglas H. Wheelock, Sunita L. Williams, Neil W. Woodward III, George D. Zamka; and the international candidates are Leopold Eyharts, Paolo Nespoli, Hans Schlegel, Roberto Vittori, Bjarni V. Tryggvason, and Marcos Pontes KSC-99pp1171

At Cape Canaveral Air Station, members of the 1998 astronaut candidate...

At Cape Canaveral Air Station, members of the 1998 astronaut candidate class (Group 17) pose in front of the Project Mercury monument at Launch Complex 14 during a tour of the station's facilities. This 13-foot... More

NASA's Terra spacecraft (foreground) is ready for encapsulation in the rocket faring behind it. Terra is expected to be launched aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS rocket Dec. 16 from Space Launch Complex 3 East at Vandenberg AFB, Calif. Terra comprises five state-of-the-art sets of instruments that will collect data for continuous, long-term records of the state of Earth's land, oceans and atmosphere. Together with data from other satellite systems launched by NASA and other countries, Terra will inaugurate a new self-consistent data record that will be gathered over the next 15 years. From an altitude of 438 miles, Terra will circle the Earth 16 times a day from pole to pole (98 degree inclination), crossing the equator at 10:30 a.m. The five Terra instruments will operate by measuring sunlight reflected by the Earth and heat emitted by the Earth KSC-99pp1413

NASA's Terra spacecraft (foreground) is ready for encapsulation in the...

NASA's Terra spacecraft (foreground) is ready for encapsulation in the rocket faring behind it. Terra is expected to be launched aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS rocket Dec. 16 from Space Launch Complex 3 Ea... More

Straight on medium shot of personnel from the 621st Air Mobility Operations Group (AMOG), McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, as they in process at the passenger terminal prior to deploying to Operation Atlas Response. This is a mission to assist in search and rescue and also with the distribution of relief supplies to the area of Mozambique in southeastern Africa

Straight on medium shot of personnel from the 621st Air Mobility Opera...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RESPONSE Base: Mcguire Air Force Base State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Oper... More

Straight on medium long shot as tent bundles sit beside an US Air Force HH-60G "Pave Hawk," assigned to the 41st Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, after being dropped-off for the people (Not shown) in the town of Machanga, south of Beira, Mozambique. To date, Joint Special Operations, Task Force aircraft participating in Operation Atlas Response, have delivered more than 71 tons of humanitarian relief supplies on 102 flights to more than 20 locations

Straight on medium long shot as tent bundles sit beside an US Air Forc...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RESPONSE Base: Machanga State: Sofala Country: Mozambique (MOZ) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Cary Humphries, USAF Rele... More

Medium shot. A local man waits for the signal from STAFF Sergeant Greg Sanford, an Aerial GUNNER assigned to the 56th Rescue Squadron at Keflavik, Iceland, to help unload tents for the people in the town of Machanga, South of Beira, Mozambique. To date, Joint Special Operations Task Force aircraft, participating in Operation Atlas Response, have delivered more than 71 tons of humanitarian relief supplies on 102 flights to more than 20 locations

Medium shot. A local man waits for the signal from STAFF Sergeant Greg...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RESPONSE Base: Mechanga State: Sofala Country: Mozambique (MOZ) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Cary Humphries Release St... More

Right side front view medium aerial shot as a US Air Force MC-130P "Shadow" from the 67th Special Operations Squadron, Royal Air Force Mildenhall, flies over South Africa on its way to perform a reconnaissance mission of damaged roads in Central Mozambique, after departing from Air Force Base Hoedspruit, South Africa, where they are deployed in support of Operation Atlas Response. Operation Atlas Response is a multi-national humanitarian relief mission helping displaced people in Central and Southern Mozambique that have been devastated by recent floods (Floods and victims not shown)

Right side front view medium aerial shot as a US Air Force MC-130P "Sh...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RESPONSE Country: South Africa (ZAF) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Cary Humphries, USAF Release Status: Released to Publi... More

Left side profile medium close-up shot as US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Tom Dolney, 3rd Air Force Public Affairs, works out schedules and reports in the Joint Operations Center, in the Cardozo Hotel, where command and control is staffed in support of Operation Atlas Response, a humanitarian relief mission to help after heavy flooding (people and floods not shown) in Mozambique displaced over a million people

Left side profile medium close-up shot as US Air Force Lieutenant Colo...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RESPONSE Base: Maputo State: Inhambane Country: Mozambique (MOZ) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Ken Bergmann, USAF Relea... More

Right side front view medium close-up from the waist up as Joint Special Operations Task Force Commander, US AIr Force Colonel Michael Russell, works on a computer while deployed to Beira, Mozambique in support of Operation Atlas Response

Right side front view medium close-up from the waist up as Joint Speci...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RESPONSE Base: Beira State: Sofala Country: Mozambique (MOZ) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Robert Talenti, USAF Release... More

The second stage of an Atlas II/Centaur rocket is raised to a vertical position in front of the gantry on pad 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, for mating with the first stage. Atlas II is designed to launch payloads into low earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit. The rocket is the launch vehicle for the GOES-L satellite, part of the NOAA National Weather Service system in weather imagery and atmospheric sounding information. The primary objective of the GOES-L is to provide a full capability satellite in an on-orbit storage condition, to assure NOAA continuity in services from a two-satellite constellation. Launch services are being provided by the 45th Space Wing KSC00pp0422

The second stage of an Atlas II/Centaur rocket is raised to a vertical...

The second stage of an Atlas II/Centaur rocket is raised to a vertical position in front of the gantry on pad 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, for mating with the first stage. Atlas II is designed to lau... More

The Atlas II/Centaur rocket carrying the NASA/NOAA weather satellite GOES-L lifts off at 3:07 a.m. EDT from Pad A at Complex 36 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The primary objective of the GOES-L is to provide a full capability satellite in an on-orbit storage condition, in order to assure NOAA continuity in services from a two-satellite constellation. Launch services are being provided by the 45th Space Wing. Once in orbit, the spacecraft is to be designated GOES-11 and will complete its 90-day checkout in time for availability during the 2000 hurricane season KSC-00pp0619

The Atlas II/Centaur rocket carrying the NASA/NOAA weather satellite G...

The Atlas II/Centaur rocket carrying the NASA/NOAA weather satellite GOES-L lifts off at 3:07 a.m. EDT from Pad A at Complex 36 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The primary objective of the GOES-L is to pro... More

The Atlas II/Centaur rocket carrying the NASA/NOAA weather satellite GOES-L is revealed after the tower was rolled back before launch. The primary objective of the GOES-L is to provide a full capability satellite in an on-orbit storage condition, in order to assure NOAA continuity in services from a two-satellite constellation. Launch services are being provided by the 45th Space Wing. Liftoff is targeted to occur at the opening of a launch window extending from 2:27 5:53 a.m. EDT, a duration of three hours and 27 minutes. Launch will occur from Pad A at Complex 36 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station KSC00pp0617

The Atlas II/Centaur rocket carrying the NASA/NOAA weather satellite G...

The Atlas II/Centaur rocket carrying the NASA/NOAA weather satellite GOES-L is revealed after the tower was rolled back before launch. The primary objective of the GOES-L is to provide a full capability satelli... More

The Atlas II/Centaur rocket carrying the NASA/NOAA weather satellite GOES-L casts a luminescent glow as it starts to clear the tower at Pad A, Complex 36, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Liftoff occurred at 3:07 a.m. EDT. The primary objective of the GOES-L is to provide a full capability satellite in an on-orbit storage condition, in order to assure NOAA continuity in services from a two-satellite constellation. Launch services are being provided by the 45th Space Wing. Once in orbit, the spacecraft is to be designated GOES-11 and will complete its 90-day checkout in time for availability during the 2000 hurricane season KSC00pp0620

The Atlas II/Centaur rocket carrying the NASA/NOAA weather satellite G...

The Atlas II/Centaur rocket carrying the NASA/NOAA weather satellite GOES-L casts a luminescent glow as it starts to clear the tower at Pad A, Complex 36, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Liftoff occurred at 3... More

At Hangar J, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), work is begun on the Centaur upper stage that will be used with an Atlas IIA rocket to launch the latest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) June 29 from CCAFS. The Atlas/Centaur launch vehicle is manufactured and operated by Lockheed Martin. Atlas IIA is capable of lifting payload systems to geosynchronous transfer orbit KSC00pp0666

At Hangar J, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), work is begun o...

At Hangar J, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), work is begun on the Centaur upper stage that will be used with an Atlas IIA rocket to launch the latest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) June 29 f... More

In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) at left is ready for encapsulation. Workers in an extendable platform wait for the fairing (right) to move into place. After encapsulation in the fairing, TDRS will be transported to Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for launch scheduled June 29 aboard an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket. One of three satellites (labeled H, I and J) being built in the Hughes Space and Communications Company Integrated Satellite Factory in El Segundo, Calif., the latest TDRS uses an innovative springback antenna design. A pair of 15-foot-diameter, flexible mesh antenna reflectors fold up for launch, then spring back into their original cupped circular shape on orbit. The new satellites will augment the TDRS system’s existing Sand Ku-band frequencies by adding Ka-band capability. TDRS will serve as the sole means of continuous, high-data-rate communication with the space shuttle, with the International Space Station upon its completion, and with dozens of unmanned scientific satellites in low earth orbit KSC00pp0750

In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility, the Tracking an...

In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) at left is ready for encapsulation. Workers in an extendable platform wait for the fairing (right) to move i... More

NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) rises into the blue sky from Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Liftoff occurred at 8:56 a.m. EDT aboard an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket. One of three satellites (labeled H, I and J) being built by the Hughes Space and Communications Company, the latest TDRS uses an innovative springback antenna design. A pair of 15-foot-diameter, flexible mesh antenna reflectors fold up for launch, then spring back into their original cupped circular shape on orbit. The new satellites will augment the TDRS system’s existing Sand Ku-band frequencies by adding Ka-band capability. TDRS will serve as the sole means of continuous, high-data-rate communication with the space shuttle, with the International Space Station upon its completion, and with dozens of unmanned scientific satellites in low earth orbit KSC00pp0825

NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) rises into the blue ...

NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) rises into the blue sky from Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Liftoff occurred at 8:56 a.m. EDT aboard an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket. One of three satel... More

Workers supervise the off-loading of segments of a Lockheed Martin Atlas II rocket at the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.; The rocket will be used to launch the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-M (GOES-M), the latest in the current series of advanced geostationary weather satellites in service.; GOES-M is being prepared for launch at the Astrotech Space Operations facility located in the Spaceport Florida Industrial Park in Titusville, Fla. The launch is scheduled for July 15 from Pad 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station KSC-01pp1040

Workers supervise the off-loading of segments of a Lockheed Martin Atl...

Workers supervise the off-loading of segments of a Lockheed Martin Atlas II rocket at the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.; The rocket will be used to launch the Geostationary Operational Environ... More

The first stage of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-M (GOES-M) Atlas II rocket is lifted to a vertical position at the gantry on Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It will be raised and lifted up the gantry for mating with other stages. The last in the current series of advanced geostationary weather satellites in service, GOES-M has a new instrument not on earlier spacecraft, a Solar X-ray Imager that can be used in forecasting space weather, the effects of solar storms that create electromagnetic disturbances on earth that affect other satellites, communications and power grids. GOES-M is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station July 15 KSC-01pp1053

The first stage of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satelli...

The first stage of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-M (GOES-M) Atlas II rocket is lifted to a vertical position at the gantry on Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It will be r... More

The first stage of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-M (GOES-M) Atlas II rocket arrives at Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It will be raised and lifted up the gantry for mating with other stages. The last in the current series of advanced geostationary weather satellites in service, GOES-M has a new instrument not on earlier spacecraft, a Solar X-ray Imager that can be used in forecasting space weather, the effects of solar storms that create electromagnetic disturbances on earth that affect other satellites, communications and power grids. GOES-M is scheduled to launch from Launch Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station July 15 KSC-01PP1052

The first stage of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satelli...

The first stage of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-M (GOES-M) Atlas II rocket arrives at Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It will be raised and lifted up the gantry for mati... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- At Astrotech, Titusville, Fla., both halves of the fairing are being installed around the newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-M (GOES-M). The satellite is the last in the current series of advanced geostationary weather satellites in service. GOES-M has a new instrument not on earlier spacecraft, a Solar X-ray Imager that can be used in forecasting space weather, the effects of solar storms that create electromagnetic disturbances on earth that affect other satellites, communications and power grids. GOES is scheduled to launch from Launch Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on an Atlas II rocket July 15 KSC-01pp1245

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- At Astrotech, Titusville, Fla., both hal...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- At Astrotech, Titusville, Fla., both halves of the fairing are being installed around the newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-M (GOES-M). The satellite is the ... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The GOES-M satellite is lifted up the launch tower at Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. GOES-M is the last in the current series of advanced geostationary weather satellites in service. GOES-M has a new instrument not on earlier spacecraft, a Solar X-ray Imager, which can be used in forecasting space weather and the effects of solar storms. The satellite is scheduled to launch atop an Atlas rocket July 15 KSC-01pp1263

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The GOES-M satellite is lifted up the la...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The GOES-M satellite is lifted up the launch tower at Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. GOES-M is the last in the current series of advanced geostationary weather sat... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. --  The first (booster) stage of an Atlas II rocket arrives at Pad 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.  The segment will be lifted and raised into the launch tower where it will be mated with the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, known as TDRS-I, for launch in January 2002. The TDRS System (TDRSS) is a communication signal relay system that provides tracking and data acquisition services between low-Earth orbiting spacecraft and NASA/customer control and/or data processing facilities.  The system is capable of transmitting to and receiving data from customer spacecrafts over 100 percent of their orbit (some limitations may apply depending on actual orbit).  The TDRS-I provides a Ka-band service that will allow customers with extremely high data rates to be supported by the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) if they desire KSC-01pp1552

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The first (booster) stage of an Atlas I...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The first (booster) stage of an Atlas II rocket arrives at Pad 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The segment will be lifted and raised into the launch tower where it will b... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. --  The first  (booster) segment of a Lockheed Martin Atlas II rocket sits in the launch tower at Pad 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in preparation for mating with the other stages that will launch the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, known as TDRS-I, in January 2002. The TDRS System (TDRSS) is a communication signal relay system that provides tracking and data acquisition services between low-Earth orbiting spacecraft and NASA/customer control and/or data processing facilities.  The system is capable of transmitting to and receiving data from customer spacecrafts over 100 percent of their orbit (some limitations may apply depending on actual orbit).  The TDRS-I provides a Ka-band service that will allow customers with extremely high data rates to be supported by the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) if they desire. KSC-01pp1555

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The first (booster) segment of a Lockh...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The first (booster) segment of a Lockheed Martin Atlas II rocket sits in the launch tower at Pad 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in preparation for mating with the other ... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA.  -- An Atlas/Centaur booster is moved away from the nose of its transport aircraft following its arrival at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The booster is being offloaded and readied for the move to Launch Pad 36A in preparation for the launch of TDRS-J. The third in a series of telemetry satellites, TDRS-J will help replenish the current constellation of geosynchronous TDRS satellites. The TDRS System is the primary source of space-to-ground voice, data and telemetry for the Space Shuttle. It also provides communications with the International Space Station and scientific spacecraft in low-Earth orbit such as the Hubble Space Telescope. This new advanced series of satellites will extend the availability of TDRS communications services until about 2017. KSC-02pd1492

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An Atlas/Centaur booster is moved away ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An Atlas/Centaur booster is moved away from the nose of its transport aircraft following its arrival at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The booster is being offloaded and readie... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA.  -- Following its arrival at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, an Atlas/Centaur booster is offloaded and readied for its move to Launch Pad 36A in preparation for the launch of TDRS-J. The third in a series of telemetry satellites, TDRS-J will help replenish the current constellation of geosynchronous TDRS satellites. The TDRS System is the primary source of space-to-ground voice, data and telemetry for the Space Shuttle. It also provides communications with the International Space Station and scientific spacecraft in low-Earth orbit such as the Hubble Space Telescope. This new advanced series of satellites will extend the availability of TDRS communications services until about 2017. KSC-02pd1490

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Following its arrival at Cape Canaveral...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Following its arrival at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, an Atlas/Centaur booster is offloaded and readied for its move to Launch Pad 36A in preparation for the launch of TDRS-J... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The TDRS-J satellite is lifted up the gantry on Launch Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.  The satellite is scheduled to be launched Dec. 4 aboard an Atlas IIA vehicle.  The launch window is 9:42 to 10:22 p.m. EST. TDRS-J, the third in a series of telemetry satellites, will help replenish the current constellation of geosynchronous TDRS satellites that are the primary source of space-to-ground voice, data and telemetry for the Space Shuttle. The satellites also provide communications with the International Space Station and scientific spacecraft in low-Earth orbit such as the Hubble Space Telescope. This new advanced series of satellites will extend the availability of TDRS communications services until about 2017. KSC-02pd1836

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The TDRS-J satellite is lifted up the gan...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The TDRS-J satellite is lifted up the gantry on Launch Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The satellite is scheduled to be launched Dec. 4 aboard an Atlas IIA vehicle.... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --At Launch Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the TDRS-J satellite launches aboard an Atlas IIA vehicle at the beginning of the launch window at 9:42 p.m. EST. TDRS-J, the third in a series of telemetry satellites, will help replenish the current constellation of geosynchronous TDRS satellites that are the primary source of space-to-ground voice, data and telemetry for the Space Shuttle. The satellites also provide communications with the International Space Station and  scientific spacecraft in low-Earth orbit such as the Hubble Space Telescope. This new advanced series of satellites will extend the availability of TDRS communications services until about 2017. KSC-02pp1853

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --At Launch Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Ai...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --At Launch Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the TDRS-J satellite launches aboard an Atlas IIA vehicle at the beginning of the launch window at 9:42 p.m. EST. TDRS-J, t... More

Political map of the world, June 2003.

Political map of the world, June 2003.

"802980AI (R00349) 5-03." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines with Combat Service Support Detachment 115 (CSSD-115) use an ATLAS (All Terrain Lifter Army System) to unload an MK48/14 Articulated Platform Truck at Camp Coyote in Northern Kuwait during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines with Combat Service Support Detachment ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Camp Coyote Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines Scene Camera Operator: SGT Kevin R. Reed, USMC Release Status: Released... More

A view of the Mosul Airport tarmac showing US Army (USA) AH-64 Apache helicopters, a USA ATLAS (All Terrain Lifter Army System), a loaded flatbed truck, and support tent area during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A view of the Mosul Airport tarmac showing US Army (USA) AH-64 Apache ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: LTC Koehler, USA Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

East Asia. Historic map, Library of Congress

East Asia. Historic map, Library of Congress

"803065AI (R00732) 5-04." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

ATLAS V PAYLOAD FAIRING INSIDE THE NASA PLUM BROOK STATION SPACE POWER FAC ILITY POST TEST GRC-2002-C-01810

ATLAS V PAYLOAD FAIRING INSIDE THE NASA PLUM BROOK STATION SPACE POWER...

ATLAS V PAYLOAD FAIRING INSIDE THE NASA PLUM BROOK STATION SPACE POWER FAC ILITY POST TEST

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -  A Russian cargo plane sits on the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA Kennedy Space Center with the Atlas V fairing for the New Horizons spacecraft inside.  The two fairing halves will be removed, loaded onto trucks and transported to Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville.  The fairing later will be placed around the New Horizons spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Service Facility. A fairing protects a spacecraft during launch and flight through the atmosphere. Once in space, it is jettisoned. The Lockheed Martin Atlas V is the launch vehicle for the New Horizons spacecraft, which is designed to make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar system to be visited by spacecraft. The mission will then visit one or more objects in the Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune. New Horizons is scheduled to launch in January 2006, swing past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February or March 2007, and reach Pluto and its moon, Charon, in July 2015. KSC-05pd2271

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A Russian cargo plane sits on the Shuttl...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A Russian cargo plane sits on the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA Kennedy Space Center with the Atlas V fairing for the New Horizons spacecraft inside. The two fairing halves wil... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, one part of the Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket fairing to be placed around the New Horizons spacecraft is moved into place for encapsulation. The fairing encloses the spacecraft to protect it during launch and flight through the atmosphere.  Once out of the atmosphere, the fairing is jettisoned.   New Horizons will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar system to be visited by spacecraft. The mission will then visit one or more objects in the Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune. SWAP is a solar wind and plasma spectrometer that measures atmospheric “escape rate” and will observe Pluto’s interaction with the solar wind.  New Horizons is scheduled to launch in January 2006, swing past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February or March 2007, and reach Pluto and its moon, Charon, in July 2015. KSC-05pd2307

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payloa...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, one part of the Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket fairing to be placed around the New Horizons spacecraft is mo... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -   On Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the fifth and final solid rocket booster nears the top of the Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket in the Vertical Integration Facility.  It will be added to the other four already mated to the rocket.  The Atlas V is the launch vehicle for the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft that will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moon, Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar system to be visited by spacecraft. As it approaches Pluto, the spacecraft will look for ultraviolet emission from Pluto's atmosphere and make the best global maps of Pluto and Charon in green, blue, red and a special wavelength that is sensitive to methane frost on the surface. It will also take spectral maps in the near infrared, telling the science team about Pluto's and Charon’s surface compositions and locations and temperatures of these materials. When the spacecraft is closest to Pluto or its moon, it will take close-up pictures in both visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The mission will then visit one or more objects in the Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune. New Horizons is scheduled to launch in January 2006, swing past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February or March 2007, and reach Pluto and Charon in July 2015. KSC-05pd2527

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the fifth and final solid rocket booster nears the top of the Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket in the Vertical I... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -   In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Boeing workers garbed in clean room suits get ready to move the third stage, or upper stage for the New Horizons spacecraft. The third stage is a Boeing STAR 48 solid-propellant kick motor.  The launch vehicle for New Horizons is the Atlas V rocket, scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., during a 35-day window that opens Jan. 11, and fly through the Pluto system as early as summer 2015. KSC-05pd2551

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Boeing workers garbed in clean room suits get ready to move the third stage, or upper stage for the New Horizo... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -   In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Boeing workers garbed in clean room suits attach a crane to the third stage, or upper stage for the New Horizons spacecraft.   The third stage, a Boeing STAR 48 solid-propellant kick motor, is being moved to a work stand.  The launch vehicle for New Horizons is the Atlas V rocket, scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., during a 35-day window that opens Jan. 11, and fly through the Pluto system as early as summer 2015. KSC-05pd2552

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Boeing workers garbed in clean room suits attach a crane to the third stage, or upper stage for the New Horizo... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians lift New Horizons toward a transporter for its move to Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The last strip of the mission decal will be installed on the fairing after the spacecraft is delivered to the pad. New Horizons carries seven scientific instruments that will characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and its moon Charon, map their surface compositions and temperatures, and examine Pluto's complex atmosphere. After that, flybys of Kuiper Belt objects from even farther in the solar system may be undertaken in an extended mission. New Horizons is the first mission in NASA's New Frontiers program of medium-class planetary missions. The spacecraft, designed for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., will launch aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket and fly by Pluto and Charon as early as summer 2015. KSC-05pd2631

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facili...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians lift New Horizons toward a transporter for its move to Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The last strip of the... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians monitor New Horizons as it is lowered onto a transporter for its move to Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. New Horizons carries seven scientific instruments that will characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and its moon Charon, map their surface compositions and temperatures, and examine Pluto's complex atmosphere. After that, flybys of Kuiper Belt objects from even farther in the solar system may be undertaken in an extended mission. New Horizons is the first mission in NASA's New Frontiers program of medium-class planetary missions. The spacecraft, designed for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., will launch aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket and fly by Pluto and Charon as early as summer 2015. KSC-05pd2632A

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facili...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians monitor New Horizons as it is lowered onto a transporter for its move to Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. New... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The fairing lifting fixture lifts the fairing enclosing New Horizons to the top of a Lockheed Martin Atlas V launch vehicle at the Vertical Integration Facility at Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. New Horizons carries seven scientific instruments that will characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and its moon Charon, map their surface compositions and temperatures, and examine Pluto's complex atmosphere. After that, flybys of Kuiper Belt objects from even farther in the solar system may be undertaken in an extended mission. New Horizons is the first mission in NASA's New Frontiers program of medium-class planetary missions. The spacecraft, designed for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., will launch aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket and fly by Pluto and Charon as early as summer 2015. KSC-05pd2640

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The fairing lifting fixture lifts the fai...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The fairing lifting fixture lifts the fairing enclosing New Horizons to the top of a Lockheed Martin Atlas V launch vehicle at the Vertical Integration Facility at Complex 41 on Cap... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA.  — On Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers move the radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) into an area of the fairing containing the New Horizons spacecraft, to which it will be attached.  Designed and integrated at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., New Horizons will launch on a nine-and-a-half-year voyage to Pluto. Typical of RTG-based systems, as on past outer-planet missions, New Horizons does not have a battery for storing power. At the start of the mission, the RTG, which provides power through the natural radioactive decay of plutonium dioxide fuel, will supply approximately 240 watts (at 30 volts of direct current) - the spacecraft’s shunt regulator unit maintains a steady input from the RTG and dissipates power the spacecraft cannot use at a given time. By July 2015 (the earliest Pluto encounter date) that supply decreases to 200 watts at the same voltage, so New Horizons will ease the strain on its limited power source by cycling science instruments during planetary encounters.  On Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers on the ground oversee the radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) being lifted into the Vertical Integration Facility.  The RTG will be installed on the New Horizons spacecraft within the fairing at the top of the Atlas V launch vehicle.  Designed and integrated at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., New Horizons will launch on a nine-and-a-half-year voyage to Pluto. Typical of RTG-based systems, as on past outer-planet missions, New Horizons does not have a battery for storing power. At the start of the mission, the RTG, which provides power through the natural radioactive decay of plutonium dioxide fuel, will supply approximately 240 watts (at 30 volts of direct current) - the spacecraft’s shunt regulator unit maintains a steady input from the RTG and diss KSC-06pd0150

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — On Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Forc...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — On Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers move the radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) into an area of the fairing containing the New Horizons s... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA.  — On Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in the foreground has been removed from its caged enclosure.  The RTG will be installed on the New Horizons spacecraft encapsulated inside the fairing, at right.    Designed and integrated at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., New Horizons will launch on a nine-and-a-half-year voyage to Pluto. Typical of RTG-based systems, as on past outer-planet missions, New Horizons does not have a battery for storing power. At the start of the mission, the RTG, which provides power through the natural radioactive decay of plutonium dioxide fuel, will supply approximately 240 watts (at 30 volts of direct current) - the spacecraft’s shunt regulator unit maintains a steady input from the RTG and dissipates power the spacecraft cannot use at a given time. By July 2015 (the earliest Pluto encounter date) that supply decreases to 200 watts at the same voltage, so New Horizons will ease the strain on its limited power source by cycling science instruments during planetary encounters.  On Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers on the ground oversee the radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) being lifted into the Vertical Integration Facility.  The RTG will be installed on the New Horizons spacecraft within the fairing at the top of the Atlas V launch vehicle.  Designed and integrated at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., New Horizons will launch on a nine-and-a-half-year voyage to Pluto. Typical of RTG-based systems, as on past outer-planet missions, New Horizons does not have a battery for storing power. At the start of the mission, the RTG, which provides power through the natural radioactive decay of plutonium dioxide fuel, will supply approximately 240 watts (at 30 volts of direct current) - the spacecraft’s shunt regulato KSC-06pd0148

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — On Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Forc...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — On Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in the foreground has been removed from its caged enclosure. The RTG ... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -  On Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Atlas V expendable launch vehicle with the New Horizons spacecraft is being moved from the Vertical Integration Facility to the pad. The liftoff is scheduled for 1:24 p.m. EST Jan. 17.  After its launch aboard the Atlas V, the compact, 1,050-pound piano-sized probe will get a boost from a kick-stage solid propellant motor for its journey to Pluto. New Horizons will be the fastest spacecraft ever launched, reaching lunar orbit distance in just nine hours and passing Jupiter 13 months later. The New Horizons science payload, developed under direction of Southwest Research Institute, includes imaging infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers, a multi-color camera, a long-range telescopic camera, two particle spectrometers, a space-dust detector and a radio science experiment. The dust counter was designed and built by students at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A launch before Feb. 3 allows New Horizons to fly past Jupiter in early 2007 and use the planet’s gravity as a slingshot toward Pluto. The Jupiter flyby trims the trip to Pluto by as many as five years and provides opportunities to test the spacecraft’s instruments and flyby capabilities on the Jupiter system. New Horizons could reach the Pluto system as early as mid-2015, conducting a five-month-long study possible only from the close-up vantage of a spacecraft. KSC-06pd0068

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Forc...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Atlas V expendable launch vehicle with the New Horizons spacecraft is being moved from the Vertical Integration Facility to t... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA.  —   From among four lightning masts surrounding the launch pad, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft lifts off the launch pad aboard an Atlas V rocket spewing flames and smoke.  Liftoff was on time at 2 p.m. EST from Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.  This was the third launch attempt in as many days after scrubs due to weather concerns.   The compact, 1,050-pound piano-sized probe will get a boost from a kick-stage solid propellant motor for its journey to Pluto. New Horizons will be the fastest spacecraft ever launched, reaching lunar orbit distance in just nine hours and passing Jupiter 13 months later. The New Horizons science payload, developed under direction of Southwest Research Institute, includes imaging infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers, a multi-color camera, a long-range telescopic camera, two particle spectrometers, a space-dust detector and a radio science experiment. The dust counter was designed and built by students at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The launch at this time allows New Horizons to fly past Jupiter in early 2007 and use the planet’s gravity as a slingshot toward Pluto. The Jupiter flyby trims the trip to Pluto by as many as five years and provides opportunities to test the spacecraft’s instruments and flyby capabilities on the Jupiter system. New Horizons could reach the Pluto system as early as mid-2015, conducting a five-month-long study possible only from the close-up vantage of a spacecraft. KSC-06pd0099

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — From among four lightning masts surrou...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — From among four lightning masts surrounding the launch pad, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft lifts off the launch pad aboard an Atlas V rocket spewing flames and smoke. Liftoff wa... More

Atlas Alone - NASA Cassini Huygens images

Atlas Alone - NASA Cassini Huygens images

Atlas Alone NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Centaur stage of the Atlas V rocket is transported off Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's skid strip in Florida on its way to the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla. The Atlas V will launch NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS.  The two spacecraft will be integrated with the Atlas V and tested for final flight worthiness. Launch is scheduled for the spring.  LCROSS and LRO are the first missions in NASA's plan to return humans to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost by 2020. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston KSC-2009-1766

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Centaur stage of the Atlas V rocket is tran...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Centaur stage of the Atlas V rocket is transported off Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's skid strip in Florida on its way to the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla. The Atlas V wi... More

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- On Launch Complex 576-E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, atop Orbital Sciences' Taurus XL rocket has been erected for launch.  Around the spacecraft's fairing, at top, is the non-flight environmental shield that will be removed before launch. OCO is scheduled for launch the Taurus rocket Feb. 24 from Vandenberg. The spacecraft will collect precise global measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere. Scientists will analyze OCO data to improve our understanding of the natural processes and human activities that regulate the abundance and distribution of this important greenhouse gas.  Photo courtesy of Brett Gladish, Orbital Sciences  The two spacecraft will be integrated with the Atlas V and tested for final flight worthiness. Launch is scheduled for the spring.  LCROSS and LRO are the first missions in NASA's plan to return humans to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost by 2020. Photo courtesy of Brett Gladish, Orbital Sciences KSC-2009-1774

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- On Launch Complex 576-E at Vanden...

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- On Launch Complex 576-E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, atop Orbital Sciences' Taurus XL rocket has been erected for ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– The Atlas V first stage is moved from the hangar at the Atlas Space Operations Facility. It is going to the Vertical Integration Facility near Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41. The Atlas V/Centaur is the launch vehicle for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO. The orbiter will carry seven instruments to provide scientists with detailed maps of the lunar surface and enhance our understanding of the moon's topography, lighting conditions, mineralogical composition and natural resources. Information gleaned from LRO will be used to select safe landing sites, determine locations for future lunar outposts and help mitigate radiation dangers to astronauts. Launch of LRO is targeted no earlier than June 2.  Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2009-2831

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– The Atlas V first stage is moved from the hang...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– The Atlas V first stage is moved from the hangar at the Atlas Space Operations Facility. It is going to the Vertical Integration Facility near Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch C... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians move the first half of the fairing toward NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, with NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, for installation. The fairing is a molded structure that fits flush with the outside surface of the rocket and forms an aerodynamically smooth nose cone, protecting the spacecraft during launch and ascent. The LRO includes five instruments:  DIVINER, LAMP, LEND, LOLA and LROC.  They will be launched aboard an Atlas V/Centaur rocket no earlier than June 17 from Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.  Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller KSC-2009-3184

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titus...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians move the first half of the fairing toward NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, with NASA's Lunar Crater Obs... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –   A wide view captures both Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at right and Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at left.  Space shuttle Endeavour is still on the pad after launch was officially scrubbed at 1:55 a.m. this morning when a gaseous hydrogen leak occurred at the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate.  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, are on Complex 41 waiting for launch on the Atlas V/Centaur rocket.   LRO and LCROSS are the first missions in NASA's plan to return humans to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost by 2020. The LRO also includes seven instruments that will help NASA characterize the moon's surface:  DIVINER, LAMP, LEND, LOLA, CRATER, Mini-RF and LROC.   Launch is scheduled for 5:22 p.m. EDT June 18 . Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller KSC-2009-3750

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A wide view captures both Launch Complex-41 o...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A wide view captures both Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at right and Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at left. Space shuttle Endeavour i... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Trailing a column of fire, the Atlas V/Centaur carrying NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, races above the lightning tower at left on Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.  The surrounding towers are part of the lightning protection system.    LRO and LCROSS are the first missions in NASA's plan to return humans to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost by 2020. The LRO also includes seven instruments that will help NASA characterize the moon's surface:  DIVINER, LAMP, LEND, LOLA , CRATER, Mini-RF and LROC.  Launch was on-time at 5:32 p.m. EDT.  Photo credit: NASA/Sandra Joseph, Tony Gray KSC-2009-3789

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Trailing a column of fire, the Atlas V/Centaur ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Trailing a column of fire, the Atlas V/Centaur carrying NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, races abov... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, bursts of smoke and steam signal liftoff for the Atlas V/Centaur rocket carrying NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, toward space.  Surrounding the pad are lightning towers.  LRO and LCROSS are the first missions in NASA's plan to return humans to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost by 2020. The LRO also includes seven instruments that will help NASA characterize the moon's surface:  DIVINER, LAMP, LEND, LOLA , CRATER, Mini-RF and LROC.   Launch was on-time at 5:32 p.m. EDT June 18.  Photo credit: NASA/Jeffery Marino KSC-2009-3774

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Forc...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, bursts of smoke and steam signal liftoff for the Atlas V/Centaur rocket carrying NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, ... More

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