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Launch of Friendship 7, NASA Mercury project

Launch of Friendship 7, NASA Mercury project

Full Description: (February 20, 1962) Launch of Friendship 7, the first American manned orbital space flight. Astronaut John Glenn aboard, the Mercury-Atlas rocket is launched from Pad 14...Image # : 62PC-0011

Aerial View of Launch Complex 14

Aerial View of Launch Complex 14

Aerial view of Launch Complex 14 with Missile Row visible to the right. Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9), visible on Pad 14, is scheduled to carry astronaut Gordon Cooper for the fourth manned orbital mission...Image # :... More

65C-287. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

65C-287. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Titan II GLV-2, GT-2 launched from Pad 19, Cape Kennedy.

S-IB-211, the flight version of the Saturn IB launch vehicle's first stage - Saturn Apollo Program

S-IB-211, the flight version of the Saturn IB launch vehicle's first s...

Workmen at the Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC's) dock on the Ternessee River unload S-IB-211, the flight version of the Saturn IB launch vehicle's first stage, from the NASA barge Palaemon. Between Decemb... More

A view of Space Launch Complex 6 facilities under construction at the base

A view of Space Launch Complex 6 facilities under construction at the ...

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: Sgt Tommy L. Viada Release Statu... More

The east side of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center shows missing panels around the leaves of the upper door, the effect of the high winds from Hurricane Floyd as it passed along the East Coast of Florida, Sept. 14-15. At a weather tower located between Shuttle Launch Pad 39A and Launch Complex 41, the highest winds recorded during the superstorm were 91 mph from the NNW at 4:50 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 15. The maximum sustained winds were recorded at 66 mph. The highest amount of rain recorded at KSC was 2.82 inches as the eye of Hurricane Floyd passed 121 miles east of Cape Canaveral at 4 a.m. Wednesday. A preliminary review of conditions at the Kennedy Space Center was positive after the worst of Hurricane Floyd passed. There appeared to be no major damage to NASA assets, including the launch pads, the four Space Shuttle Orbiters, and flight hardware KSC-99pp1121

The east side of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space ...

The east side of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center shows missing panels around the leaves of the upper door, the effect of the high winds from Hurricane Floyd as it passed along the Ea... More

Light the Candle NASA Image of The Day

Light the Candle NASA Image of The Day

Astronaut Alan Shepard is hurled into space atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket. Freedom 7 was the first American manned suborbital space flight, making Shepard the first American in space He later commanded the Apo... More

Tail Service Mast Umbilical Arrival

Tail Service Mast Umbilical Arrival

Technicians assist as a crane is used to lift the first Tail Service Mast Umbilical (TSMU) up from the flatbed of the transport truck at the Launch Equipment Test Facility (LETF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ... More

Eutelsat/ABS launch

Eutelsat/ABS launch

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Hispasat 30W-6 Mission

Hispasat 30W-6 Mission

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Apollo 11 Launched Via the Saturn V Rocket-High Angle View

Apollo 11 Launched Via the Saturn V Rocket-High Angle View

Full Description: The Apollo 11 mission, the first lunar landing mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) developed Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the external tank is lowered between the solid rocket boosters on the mobile launcher platform below. After mating, the boosters-tank configuration will be used on space shuttle Atlantis for mission STS-122, which is targeted for launch on Dec. 6. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-07pd2878

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NAS...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the external tank is lowered between the solid rocket boosters on the mobile launcher platform below. After mating... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Viewed across the Indian River Lagoon, 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, trails a tail of smoke as it roars into the sky after launch from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. 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/Tony Gray KSC-2009-3772

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Viewed across the Indian River Lagoon, the Atla...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Viewed across the Indian River Lagoon, the Atlas V/Centaur rocket carrying NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crawlerway is sprayed with water to minimize the dust cloud generated by the passing of the crawler-transporter. Space shuttle Atlantis is making its 3.4-mile trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A in the background. First motion was at 6:38 a.m. EDT Oct. 14. The move, known as rollout, is expected to take about six hours. Liftoff of Atlantis on its STS-129 mission to the International Space Station is targeted for Nov. 12. For information on the STS-129 mission and crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts129/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2009-5435

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crawlerway is sprayed with water to minimize the dust cloud generated by the passing of the crawler-transporter. Space shuttle Atlantis is m... More

Pad 39A

Pad 39A

Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center will be future home to NASA Commercial Crew Program launches and Falcon Heavy missions.

Public Domain Images - Iridium-5 Mission

Public Domain Images - Iridium-5 Mission

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High angle view of Apollo 14 space vehicle on way to Pad A

High angle view of Apollo 14 space vehicle on way to Pad A

S70-54119 (9 Nov. 1970) --- A high-angle view at Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), showing the Apollo 14 (Spacecraft 110/Lunar Module 8/Saturn 509) space vehicle on the way from the Vehicle Assembl... More

Installation of Soyuz Spacecraft at Baikonur

Installation of Soyuz Spacecraft at Baikonur

The Soyuz spacecraft and launch vehicle are installed on the launch pad at the Baikonur complex in Kazakhstan. Baikonur is the world's largest space center. This launch was part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, President Jimmy Carter, hand on waist, is briefed on preparations for the first space shuttle launch by center director Lee Scherer. To the left of Carter is NASA Administrator Robert Frosch. Photo Credit: NASA KSC-78PC-0475

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Presid...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, President Jimmy Carter, hand on waist, is briefed on preparations for the first space shuttle launch by center director Lee Scherer. To the left o... More

A view, looking south, of Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6), under construction

A view, looking south, of Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6), under constr...

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: SMGT A. Washington Release Statu... More

The Air Force and Lockheed Martin Launch team successfully launched the Atlas I space vehicle, designated AC-78. The missile was carrying the "Satellite per Asteronomia A Raggi" (SAX), a commercial scientific payload, from launch complex 36B, CCAS at 12:31 A.M. EDT

The Air Force and Lockheed Martin Launch team successfully launched th...

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 Release Status: Releas... More

Mars Climate Orbiter, JPL/NASA images

Mars Climate Orbiter, JPL/NASA images

(December 11, 1998) ..Image # : KSC-98PC-1838 Public domain photograph of NASA rocket launch, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Atlas V expendable launch vehicle with the New Horizons spacecraft rolls out of the Vertical Integration Facility on its way 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-06pd0067

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 rolls out of the Vertical Integration Facility on its way ... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STS-115 crew gets instructions on landing the slidewire baskets, used during emergency egress from the launch pad. From left are Mission Specialists Joseph Tanner and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Commander Brent Jett, and Mission Specialists Daniel Burbank, Chris Ferguson and Steven MacLean, who is with the Canadian Space Agency. The mission crew is at KSC for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) activities that are preparation for launch on Space Shuttle Atlantis, scheduled to take place in a window that opens Aug. 27. During their 11-day mission to the International Space Station, the STS-115 crew will continue construction of the station and attach the payload elements, the Port 3/4 truss segment with its two large solar arrays. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston KSC-06pd1783

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STS-115 crew gets instructions on l...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STS-115 crew gets instructions on landing the slidewire baskets, used during emergency egress from the launch pad. From left are Mission Specialists Joseph Tanner and Heidemar... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the United Launch Alliance, or ULA, Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, rolled out of the ULA Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at 1:59 p.m. EDT heading to the launch pad. The Atlas V rocket had been rolled back to the facility on August 26 to ensure the launch vehicle and RBSP spacecraft were secured and protected from inclement weather caused by Tropical Storm Isaac. RBSP will explore changes in Earth's space environment caused by the sun -- known as "space weather" -- that can disable satellites, create power-grid failures and disrupt GPS service. The mission also will provide data on the fundamental radiation and particle acceleration processes throughout the universe. The launch is rescheduled for 4:05 a.m. EDT on Aug. 30, pending approval from the range. For more information on RBSP, visit http://www.nasa.gov/rbsp. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-4693

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida,...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the United Launch Alliance, or ULA, Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, rolled out of the ULA Vertica... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, two space shuttle external fuel tank transporters are being prepared for transfer to the Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum at Keystone Heights Airport between Gainesville and Jacksonville, Fla. At the Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum a mock-up shuttle external fuel tank will be displayed. During space shuttle launches, the external tanks contained over 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant for the shuttle orbiters' three main engines. The effort is part of Transition and Retirement of the space shuttle. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/transition Photo credit: NASA/ Jim Grossmann KSC-2013-1079

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, two ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, two space shuttle external fuel tank transporters are being prepared for transfer to the Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum at Keystone Heights Air... More

Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission

Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission

A Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory is seen as it rolls out to launch pad 1 of the Tanegashima Space Cent... More

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA astronaut and

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA astronaut and

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA astronaut and Marine Corps Col. (Ret.) Douglas Hurley and fellow crew member Robert Behnken is launched from Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the Inte... More

APOLLO XII - ROLLOUT - KSC, NASA Apollo program

APOLLO XII - ROLLOUT - KSC, NASA Apollo program

S69-51299 (8 Sept. 1969) --- Ground-level view at Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), showing the Apollo 12 (Spacecraft 108/ Lunar Module 6/ Saturn 507) space vehicle on the way from the Vehicle Asse... More

The first Titan 34D launch vehicle undergoes prelaunch preparations at Complex 40

The first Titan 34D launch vehicle undergoes prelaunch preparations at...

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

An Air Force Atlas II Rocket IS launched from CX-36A, CCAFS at 6:40 P.M., est. The Atlas II is carrying a Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS-III) Spacecraft which is part of a larger constellation of military communications satellites

An Air Force Atlas II Rocket IS launched from CX-36A, CCAFS at 6:40 P....

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

Space shuttle STS-135 Atlantis Launch

Space shuttle STS-135 Atlantis Launch

Space shuttle Atlantis is seen as it launches from pad 39A on Friday, July 8, 2011, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch of Atlantis, STS-135, is the final flight of the shuttle pro... More

Expedition 31 Soyuz TMA-04M Docking to ISS (201205170007HQ)

Expedition 31 Soyuz TMA-04M Docking to ISS (201205170007HQ)

Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Joe Acaba is seen on the TV screen at the Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev, Russia a few hours after the Soyuz TMA-04M docked to the International Space Station with Acaba... More

MRBM Launch Site 1 San Cristobal, Cuba 25 October 1962 - NARA - 193928

MRBM Launch Site 1 San Cristobal, Cuba 25 October 1962 - NARA - 193928

Public domain photograph related to American atomic bomb, nuclear weapons, Manhattan project, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jupiter Missile on test stand. NASA public domain image colelction.

Jupiter Missile on test stand. NASA public domain image colelction.

Installation of a Jupiter Missile in ABMA (Army Ballistic Missile Agency) West Test Stand, Jan. 16, 1957. Jupiter was a 1500-mile range missile

Nuclear Rocket Engine Being Transported to Test Stand

Nuclear Rocket Engine Being Transported to Test Stand

The first ground experimental nuclear rocket engine (XE) assembly, (left), is shown here in "cold flow" configuration, as it makes a late evening arrival at Engine Test Stand No. 1 at the Nuclear Rocket Develop... More

Radio Frequency Interference Test - Launch Complex (LC)-37A - Cape

Radio Frequency Interference Test - Launch Complex (LC)-37A - Cape

View of a Saturn I on the launch pad for a Radio Frequency Interference Test, to be conducted at LC-37A. Cape Kennedy Missile Test Center

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-10 - ON PAD - ATLAS/AGENA - PRELAUNCH - CAPE

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-10 - ON PAD - ATLAS/AGENA - PRELAUNCH - CAPE

S66-42739 (18 July 1966) --- An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle during prelaunch preparations at Launch Complex 14. The Agena will be a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini-1... More

LAUNCH - APOLLO 9 - CAPE, NASA Apollo program

LAUNCH - APOLLO 9 - CAPE, NASA Apollo program

S69-25862 (3 March 1969) --- Framed by palm trees in the foreground, the Apollo 9 (Spacecraft 104/Lunar Module 3/ Saturn 504) space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC) ... More

A Lockheed Martin Corp. Atlas II/AC-118 sits poised on Launch Complex 36A. The expendable launch vehicle is ready to carry a Department of Defense Payload into orbit

A Lockheed Martin Corp. Atlas II/AC-118 sits poised on Launch Complex ...

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the water tower (right) which supported the space shuttle's water deluge system still stands on Launch Pad 39B after the pad's deconstruction. In 2009, the structure at the pad was no longer needed for NASA's Space Shuttle Program, so it is being restructured for future use. The new design will feature a "clean pad" for rockets to come with their own launcher, making it more versatile for a number of vehicles. For information on NASA's future plans, visit http://www.nasa.gov/exploration. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2011-6159

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the water tower (right) which supported the space shuttle's water deluge system still stands on Launch Pad 39B after the pad's deconstruction. ... More

Arabsat-6A Mission (40628434483)

Arabsat-6A Mission (40628434483)

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Saturn V vehicle (SA-501) - Saturn Apollo Program

Saturn V vehicle (SA-501) - Saturn Apollo Program

This is a view of the the first test flight of the Saturn V vehicle (SA-501) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) launch complex 39A. The thrust chambers of the first stage's five engines extend into the 45-foot-s... More

Apollo 11 Launched Via Saturn V Rocket

Apollo 11 Launched Via Saturn V Rocket

Full Description: The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) developed Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16,... More

Ground level view of Apollo 14 space vehicle leaving VAB for launch pad

Ground level view of Apollo 14 space vehicle leaving VAB for launch pa...

S70-54121 (9 Nov. 1970) --- A ground level view at Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), showing the Apollo 14 (Spacecraft 110/Lunar Module 8/Saturn 509) space vehicle leaving the Vehicle Assembly Buil... More

An Army tactical missile system (TACMS) missile is fired from a multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) launcher during testing

An Army tactical missile system (TACMS) missile is fired from a multip...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: White Sands Missile Test Range State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Ted Gaskins Release Status:... More

F-16 Falcon aircraft from the 18th Fighter Squadron, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, fly over a the Kunsan Bomb Range during a bombing exercise. The F-16s will drop live ordnance. The aircraft are armed as follows: 4x CBU-58 cluster bombs, 1x AI -120, 1x AIM-9M, 2 fuel tanks and a ECM Pod

F-16 Falcon aircraft from the 18th Fighter Squadron, Eielson Air Force...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: CAPABILITIES EXERCISE (CAPEX) Base: Kunsan Air Base Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR) Scene Camera Operator: TECH. SGT. John K... More

A Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS III) satellite awaits atop a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIA launch vehicle at complex 36A

A Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS III) satellite awaits ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cape Canaveral State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Range Visual Info. TECH. Service Release Statu... More

Looking like a Roman candle, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) shoots into the blue sky aboard an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket from Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Liftoff occurred at 8:56 a.m. EDT. 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 KSC-00pp0826

Looking like a Roman candle, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite ...

Looking like a Roman candle, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) shoots into the blue sky aboard an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket from Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Liftoff occurred at 8:5... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The 227-foot-tall 69.2 meter) SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Liftoff with the SpaceX Dragon capsule aboard is set for 4:55 a.m. EDT on May 19. The launch will be the company's second demonstration test flight for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Program, or COTS. During the flight, the capsule will conduct a series of check-out procedures to test and prove its systems, including rendezvous and berthing with the International Space Station. If the capsule performs as planned, the cargo and experiments it is carrying will be transferred to the station. The cargo includes food, water and provisions for the station’s Expedition crews, such as clothing, batteries and computer equipment. Under COTS, NASA has partnered with two aerospace companies to deliver cargo to the station. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/spacex Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2012-3721

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The 227-foot-tall 69.2 meter) SpaceX Falcon 9 r...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The 227-foot-tall 69.2 meter) SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Liftoff with the SpaceX Dragon capsule aboard is set... More

An Atlas V rocket launches the Navy's Mobile User Objective

An Atlas V rocket launches the Navy's Mobile User Objective

An Atlas V rocket launches the Navy's Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) 2 satellite from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. MUOS is a next-generation narrow band tactical satell... More

THAICOM 8 Launch

THAICOM 8 Launch

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Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test

Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test

On May 6, 2015, SpaceX completed the first key flight test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft, a vehicle designed to carry astronauts to and from space. The successful Pad Abort Test was the first flight test of Spa... More

Arlena Moses, 45th Weather Squadron launch weather

Arlena Moses, 45th Weather Squadron launch weather

Arlena Moses, 45th Weather Squadron launch weather officer, Jessica Williams, 45th Weather Squadron launch weather officer, and Maj. Janelle Jenniges, 45th Weather Squadron director of operations, look at a liv... More

Cuban missiles

Cuban missiles

U.S. aerial reconnaissance photograph of a medium range ballistic missile launch site at San Cristobal in Cuba, on 1 November 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis. Magyar: Egy amerikai Lockheed U-2 kémrepülõ ... More

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28417, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28417, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-G Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Saturn V - Saturn Apollo Program

Saturn V - Saturn Apollo Program

The hydrogen-powered second stage is being lowered into place during the final phase of fabrication of the Saturn V moon rocket at North American's Seal Beach, California facility. The towering 363-foot Saturn ... More

A ripple launch of Minuteman missiles takes place

A ripple launch of Minuteman missiles takes place

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. Robert Loree Release ... More

A semiballistic missile is launched from a multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) launcher as the Army Tactical Missile System (TACMS) is tested during a night firing at Launch CompleX No. 33. (No. 5 in a series of 6 views.)

A semiballistic missile is launched from a multiple launch rocket syst...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: White Sands Missile Test Range State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Earl Heater Release Status:... More

An Air Force TITAN IV CENTAUR Launch Vehicle is poised on Complex 41 ready to carry a classified Department of Defense payload into orbit

An Air Force TITAN IV CENTAUR Launch Vehicle is poised on Complex 41 r...

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

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

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The late afternoon sun highlights the external tank and solid rocket booster on Space Shuttle Columbia after rollback of the Rotating Service Structure on Launch Pad 39A. Visible are the orbiter access arm with the White Room extended to Columbia's cockpit, and at the top, the gaseous oxygen vent arm and cap, called the "beanie cap." Columbia is scheduled for launch Jan. 16 at 10:39 a.m. EST on mission STS-107, a research mission. KSC-03pd0074

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The late afternoon sun highlights the e...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The late afternoon sun highlights the external tank and solid rocket booster on Space Shuttle Columbia after rollback of the Rotating Service Structure on Launch Pad 39A. Visible ... More

An Arrow anti-ballistic missile launched as part of the on going United States/Israel Arrow System Improvement Program (ASIPP). The missile successfully intercepted a short-range target during tests at the Point Mugu Sea Range in California (CA). This is the twelfth Arrow intercept test and the seventh test of the complete Arrow system. The objective of the test is to demonstrate the Arrow system's improved performance against a target that represents a threat to Israel. The test represented a realistic scenario that could not be tested in Israel due to test-field safety restrictions

An Arrow anti-ballistic missile launched as part of the on going Unite...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Point Mugu Sea Range State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to P... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Atlantis is suspended vertically above the transfer aisle. Atlantis will be lifted into high bay 3 and stacked with its external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters. After additional preparations are made, the shuttle will be rolled out to Launch Pad 39A to prepare for launch on the STS-125 mission targeted for 1:34 a.m. EDT Oct. 8. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis KSC-08pd2491

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Ken...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Atlantis is suspended vertically above the transfer aisle. Atlantis will be lifted into high bay 3 and stac... More

Atlas V Rocket Launches with Juno Spacecraft

Atlas V Rocket Launches with Juno Spacecraft

An Atlas V rocket launches with the Juno spacecraft payload from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Friday, August 5, 2011. The Juno spacecraft will make a five-year, 400-... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Mary Hanna, NASA crawler-transporter project manager, outlines the upgrades planned for the crawler-transport to support NASA's forthcoming Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket. Hanna's audience is made up of media representatives taking the 21st Century Ground Systems tour. Other stops on the tour include the Vehicle Assembly Building, the new mobile launcher on Launch Pad 39B, and the Launch Control Center's Firing Room 1. These facilities and equipment will be used to prepare and launch NASA's new Orion spacecraft. The tour was arranged as part of prelaunch media activities for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) launch. Liftoff of MSL aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is planned during a launch window which extends from 10:02 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. EST on Nov. 26. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/msl. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2011-7923

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Mary H...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Mary Hanna, NASA crawler-transporter project manager, outlines the upgrades planned for the crawler-transport to support NASA's forthcoming Space ... More

N1 1M1 mockup on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in late 1967

N1 1M1 mockup on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in late 196...

Н-1 1M1 mockup on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in late 1967.

Mercury Project - Liftoff of MR-4 (Mercury-Redstone)

Mercury Project - Liftoff of MR-4 (Mercury-Redstone)

Liftoff of MR-4 (Mercury-Redstone), Liberty Bell 7, on July 21, 1961. MR-4 mission was the second marned suborbital flight and carried Astronaut Virgil Grissom aboard the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft in space for ... More

View of the liftoff of Little Joe II

View of the liftoff of Little Joe II

Description: View of the liftoff of Little Joe II launch vehicle at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico...UID: SPD-JSC-S63-15229

Saturn V fuel tank assembly for the Saturn V S-IC - Saturn Apollo Program

Saturn V fuel tank assembly for the Saturn V S-IC - Saturn Apollo Prog...

The fuel tank assembly for the Saturn V S-IC (first) stage arrived at the Marshall Space Flight Center, building 4707, for mating to the liquid oxygen tank. The fuel tank carried kerosene as its fuel. The S-IC ... More

Saturn V S-IVB (third) stage for the Apollo 10 - Saturn Apollo Program

Saturn V S-IVB (third) stage for the Apollo 10 - Saturn Apollo Program

This image depicts the Saturn V S-IVB (third) stage for the Apollo 10 mission being removed from the Beta Test Stand 1 after its acceptance test at the Douglas Aircraft Company's Sacramento Test Operations (SAC... More

ASTP Saturn IB CDDT. NASA public domain image colelction.

ASTP Saturn IB CDDT. NASA public domain image colelction.

Dawn breaks behind the ASTP Saturn IB launch vehicle during the Countdown Demonstration Test. The Mobile Service Structure was moved away from the vehicle for the test, which is a step-by-step dress rehearsal f... More

APOLLO XII - ROLLOUT - KSC, NASA Apollo program

APOLLO XII - ROLLOUT - KSC, NASA Apollo program

S69-51309 (8 Sept. 1969) --- High-angle view at Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), showing the Apollo 12 (Spacecraft 108/Lunar Module 6/Saturn 507) space vehicle on the way from the Vehicle Assembly... More

General (GEN) Alton D. Slay, commander, Air Force Systems Command, and his entourage tour Space Launch Complex 6 during a visit to the base. Behind them is the mobile service tower (MST)

General (GEN) Alton D. Slay, commander, Air Force Systems Command, and...

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: Ssgt Gregory C. Merritt Release ... More

A Trident II (D-5X3) intercontinental ballistic missile is launched during the third developmental test flight of the system. The missile is designed for submerged firing from the ninth nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarine USS TENNESSEE (SSBN 734) and all subsequent submarines in its class. Note: Second view in a series of six

A Trident II (D-5X3) intercontinental ballistic missile is launched du...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cape Canaveral State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Com... More

An Air Force Atlas II Rocket sits poised on Launch CX-36A at CCAFS ready to launch a Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS-III) Spacecraft which is part of a larger constellation of military communications satellites

An Air Force Atlas II Rocket sits poised on Launch CX-36A at CCAFS rea...

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

GLAST Spacecraft Launch. NASA public domain image colelction.

GLAST Spacecraft Launch. NASA public domain image colelction.

(June 11, 2008) On June 11, 2008, a Delta II rocket carrying the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) launched from Cape Canaveral. Its mission was to explore the extreme universe..Image credit: NASA/Je... More

AERIAL VIEW - APOLLO - MSC FUNCTIONS - MSC

AERIAL VIEW - APOLLO - MSC FUNCTIONS - MSC

An aerial view of MSC, with an overlay illustrating the functions of MSC, management, launch operations, tests and evaluations MSC, HOUSTON, TX NASA Identifier: S65-05157

Antares Rocket Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Antares Rocket Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, arrives at launch Pad-0A, Thursday, July 10, 2014, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Antares will launch wit... More

Orion Launch. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Orion Launch. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

A Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying NASA's Orion spacecraft on an unpiloted flight test to Earth orbit. Liftoff was at 7:05 a.m... More

Tail Service Mast Umbilical Arrival

Tail Service Mast Umbilical Arrival

A technician monitors the progress as a crane lifts the first Tail Service Mast Umbilical (TSMU) for transfer to a test stand at the Launch Equipment Test Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Two... More

Iridium-1 Mission

Iridium-1 Mission

Falcon 9 with 10 Iridium NEXT communications satellites at Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

SES-10 Launch - world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket

SES-10 Launch - world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket

NaN Public domain photograph of Space X rocket launch, space flight, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public Domain Images - CRS-16 Mission

Public Domain Images - CRS-16 Mission

SpaceX public domain photographs Public domain photograph of Space X rocket launch, space flight, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The First Redstone Rocket Firing

The First Redstone Rocket Firing

Full Description: (August 20, 1953) The first Redstone was fired at Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 20, 1953. Redstone was the first major rocket development program for United States by the Peenemuende group... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- CCMTA, NASA:MERCURY, Pad 14 Mercury Atlas-6 with Capsule #13. Photo credit: NASA/USAF KSC-LOD-62-475

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- CCMTA, NASA:MERCURY, Pad 14 Mercury Atlas-6 w...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- CCMTA, NASA:MERCURY, Pad 14 Mercury Atlas-6 with Capsule #13. Photo credit: NASA/USAF

Gemini 8 Launched by Titan Booster

Gemini 8 Launched by Titan Booster

Full Description: A Titan booster launched the Gemini 8 spacecraft on March 16, 1966 from launch complex 19 Cape Kennedy, Florida. The flight crew for the 3 day mission, astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David R... More

A Lockheed Martin Corp. Atlas 11/AC-116 Expendable Launch Vehicle lifts off for a successful launch from Complex 36A at 11:27:01 a.m., EDT. The Atlas 11/AC-116 was carrying an EHF follow-on #5 U.S. Navy Communication Satellite into orbit

A Lockheed Martin Corp. Atlas 11/AC-116 Expendable Launch Vehicle lift...

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: Bionetics Corp. Release Stat... More

A Delta II rocket launches from Space Launch Complex Two at Vandenberg AFB, California, in the early morning hours carrying five Iridium satellites into polar orbit on the 11th of February 2002

A Delta II rocket launches from Space Launch Complex Two at Vandenberg...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AFSPC Scene Camera Operator:... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This aerial view looking north shows space shuttle Complex 39 Launch Pads A (foreground) and B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. To the right is the Atlantic Ocean. Photo credit: Cory Huston KSC-06pd0390

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This aerial view looking north shows...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This aerial view looking north shows space shuttle Complex 39 Launch Pads A (foreground) and B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. To the right is the Atlantic Ocean. Photo credit... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B, the stabilizing arm is lifted toward the fixed service structure where it will be attached. The arm will be used in the Ares I-X rocket launch, targeted for Oct. 31. Ares I-X is part of NASA's Constellation Program. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2009-5097

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B,...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B, the stabilizing arm is lifted toward the fixed service structure where it will be attached. The arm will be used in the Ares I-X rocket la... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Sunset at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida finds the Ares I-X rocket awaiting the approaching liftoff of its flight test. This is the first time since the Apollo Program's Saturn rockets were retired that a vehicle other than the space shuttle has occupied the pad. Part of the Constellation Program, the Ares I-X is the test vehicle for the Ares I. The Ares I-X flight test is set for Oct. 27. For information on the Ares I-X vehicle and flight test, visit http://www.nasa.gov/aresIX. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2009-5840

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Sunset at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Spac...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Sunset at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida finds the Ares I-X rocket awaiting the approaching liftoff of its flight test. This is the first time since the Apoll... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-133 payload canister approaches Launch Pad 39A where it will be lifted into the rotating service structure. The payload then will be moved into space shuttle Discovery's payload bay. Discovery and its STS-133 crew will deliver the Permanent Multipurpose Module, packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for 4:40 p.m. EDT, Nov. 1. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-2010-5009

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-133 payload canister approaches Launch Pad 39A where it will be lifted into the rotating service structure. The payload then wil... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, crawler-transporter No. 2 moves out of high bay 2 of the Vehicle Assembly Building where it has been undergoing modifications. The test drive is designed to check out modifications to ensure its ability to carry launch vehicles such as the space agency's Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket to the launch pad. NASA's Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is leading the 20-year life-extension project for the crawler. A pair of behemoth machines called crawler-transporters has carried the load of taking rockets and spacecraft to the launch pad for more than 40 years at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Each the size of a baseball infield and powered by locomotive and large electrical power generator engines, the crawler-transporters will stand ready to keep up the work for the next generation of launch vehicles projects to lift astronauts into space. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/ground/index.html Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2012-6164

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, cra...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, crawler-transporter No. 2 moves out of high bay 2 of the Vehicle Assembly Building where it has been undergoing modifications. The test drive i... More

OA-7 Atlas V Centaur Stage Lift and Mate to Booster

OA-7 Atlas V Centaur Stage Lift and Mate to Booster

The Centaur upper stage of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket arrives at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Centaur sta... More

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Spaceflight

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Spaceflight

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express, launches from Space Launch Complex-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, on Dec. 3, 2018 at 10:34 a.m. PST. (U.S. Air Force photo by Mi... More

Early Rockets, NASA history collection

Early Rockets, NASA history collection

A Bumper Wac, a combination the V-2 rocket with a WAC Corporal upper stage, awaits launch on July 24, 1950. It was the eighth in the Bumper Project and the vehicle reached the altitude of 393 kilometers. The Bu... More

Mercury-Atlas Rocket on the Launch Pad

Mercury-Atlas Rocket on the Launch Pad

Pre-launch test of the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA9) on Launch Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida...Image # : 63C-1417 .May 14, 1963

Aerial View of Apollo 11 Saturn V on Transporter

Aerial View of Apollo 11 Saturn V on Transporter

(May 20, 1969) The Transporter nears the top of the five percent incline at Launch Complex 39A with the Apollo 11 Saturn V...Image # : 69P-0410

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