View of the FGB/Zarya module during the approach of the STS-88 orbiter Endeavour. The STS-88 crew had the Unity module in the Shuttle’s payload bay. The crew brought the two modules together – the first on-orbit assembly step in creating the International Space Station. Image #: sts088-305-028 Date: December 6, Read More →
View of the FGB/Zarya module during the approach of the STS-88 orbiter Endeavour. The STS-88 crew had the Unity module in the Shuttle’s payload bay. The crew brought the two modules together – the first on-orbit assembly step in creating the International Space Station. Image #: sts088-305-028 Date: December 6, Read More →
STS-27 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, is launched from KSC Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39B for a Department of Defense (DOD) dedicated mission. OV-104, riding atop the external tank (ET), rises above mobile launcher platform and launch pad with the launch tower still visible in background. Image #: s27-s-005 Date: Read More →
STS-53 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, lifts off from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39A at 8:24:00 am (Eastern Standard Time (EST)). An exhaust cloud frames OV-103, atop the external tank (ET) and flanked by two solid rocket boosters (SRBs), as it rises above the mobile launcher Read More →
The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Launch Pad 39B with a crew of six NASA astronauts, a Swiss mission specialist and a variety of special tools aboard. Launch occurred at 4:27:00 a.m. (EST). Image #: sts061-s-090 Date: December 2, 1993 via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/P9MQ77
Read More →The Space Shuttle Columbia passes into a brilliant sunrise scene during the STS-9\Spacelab 1 mission. The photograph was taken with a 35mm camera aimed through Columbia’s aft flight deck windows. Part of the science module, which hosted more than a week’s scientific experimentation, is silhouetted against the scene. Image #: Read More →
Photographic documentation showing astronauts in Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMU) working on both Experimental Assembly of Structures in Extravehicular Activity (EASE) and on Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structures (ACCESS) in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis during STS-61B. Image #: 61b-45-029 Date: November 28, 1985 via Flickr Read More →
The Space Shuttle Endeavour is backdropped over Cook Strait, New Zealand as it approaches the International Space Station (ISS) during STS-113 rendezvous and docking operations. Docking occurred at 4:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on November 25, 2002. The Port One (P1) truss, which was later to be attached to the Read More →
With five astronauts aboard, the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Launch Pad 39A. Launch occurred at 7:30:43:071 a.m. (EST), November 12, 1995. The crew members were astronauts Kenneth D. Cameron, mission commander; James D. Halsell Jr., pilot; William S. McArthur Jr., Jerry L. Ross Read More →
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