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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – – The STS-127 crew members arrive at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for space shuttle Endeavour's July 11 launch on the 29th assembly flight to the International Space Station. Leading the way, Commander Mark Polansky is greeted by the STS-127 Launch Director Pete Nickolenko. Behind Polansky is Pilot Doug Hurley. Polansky will be making his third shuttle flight and Hurley his first. This will be the third launch attempt due to the leak of hydrogen gas at the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate during tanking on two previous attempts, June 13 and June 17. The STS-127 mission is the final of three flights dedicated to the assembly of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory complex. Endeavour will deliver the Japanese Experiment Module's Exposed Facility, or JEM-EF, and the Experiment Logistics Module-Exposed Section, or ELM-ES. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2009-3888

CAPT. Carl Chambers is welcomed to Clark Air Base upon his arrival aboard a C-141 Starlifter aircraft. CAPT. Chambers was recently released from a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam

Events in Barrow, US Coast Guard Photo

[Assignment: 48-DPA-04-25-08_SOI_K_USPP_Flight] Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides joining] U.S. Park Police crew for Washington, D.C. fly-over [48-DPA-04-25-08_SOI_K_USPP_Flight_DOI_3486.JPG]

SAS Inaugural. On the first DC-9-30 flight to Rome

Soviet sailors watch as a diver ascends from a training tank during their tour of the base. Three ships of the Soviet Pacific Fleet are in San Diego for a five-day goodwill visit

In a hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a weather researcher checks a field mill measuring device on the Cessna Citation. The aircraft is being used for NASA’s airborne field mill study. The plane also carries cloud physics probes (under the body and wings) that measure the size, shape and number of ice and water particles in clouds. The plane is being flown into anvil clouds in the KSC area as part of a study to review and possibly modify lightning launch commit criteria. The weather study could lead to improved lightning avoidance rules and fewer launch scrubs for the Space Shuttle and other launch vehicles on the Eastern and Western ranges.; More information about the study can be found in /2000/56-00.htm">Release No. 56-00</a> KSC-00pp0887

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Near the bottom of the solid rocket booster in the Vehicle Assembly Building, a United Space Alliance SRB technician detaches the SRB system tunnel cover on the 36 cables inside. The SRB is part of Space Shuttle Atlantis, rolled back from Launch Pad 39A in order to conduct tests on the cables. A prior extensive evaluation of NASA’s SRB cable inventory on the shelf revealed conductor damage in four (of about 200) cables. Shuttle managers decided to prove the integrity of the system tunnel cables already on Atlantis before launching. Workers are conducting inspections, making continuity checks and conducting X-ray analysis on the cables. The launch has been rescheduled no earlier than Feb. 6 KSC01pp0147

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Near the bottom of the solid rocket booster in the Vehicle Assembly Building, a United Space Alliance SRB technician detaches the SRB system tunnel cover on the 36 cables inside. The SRB is part of Space Shuttle Atlantis, rolled back from Launch Pad 39A in order to conduct tests on the cables. A prior extensive evaluation of NASA’s SRB cable inventory on the shelf revealed conductor damage in four (of about 200) cables. Shuttle managers decided to prove the integrity of the system tunnel cables already on Atlantis before launching. Workers are conducting inspections, making continuity checks and conducting X-ray analysis on the cables. The launch has been rescheduled no earlier than Feb. 6

The Space Shuttle program was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011, administered by NASA and officially beginning in 1972. The Space Shuttle system—composed of an orbiter launched with two reusable solid rocket boosters and a disposable external fuel tank— carried up to eight astronauts and up to 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and lands as a glider. Although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, the program formally commenced in 1972 and was the focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s. It started with the launch of the first shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on STS-1. and finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011.

Space Shuttle Atlantis was a space shuttle that was operated by NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program. It was the fourth operational shuttle built, and the last one to be built before the program was retired in 2011. Atlantis was named after the first research vessel operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and it made its first flight in October 1985. Over the course of its career, Atlantis completed 33 missions and spent a total of 307 days in space. Its last mission was STS-135, which was the final mission of the Space Shuttle program. Atlantis is now on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) was one of the four first operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States. (The other two are Discovery and Endeavour.) Atlantis was the fourth operational shuttle built. Atlantis is named after a two-masted sailing ship that operated from 1930 to 1966 for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Atlantis performed well in 25 years of service, flying 33 missions.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, are jacking crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, four feet off the floor to facilitate removal of the roller bearing assemblies. After inspections, new assemblies will be installed. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program office at Kennedy is overseeing the upgrades to CT-2 so that it can carry NASA’s Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket and new Orion spacecraft to the launch pad. For more than 45 years the crawler-transporters were used to transport the mobile launcher platform and the Apollo-Saturn V rockets and, later, space shuttles to Launch Pads 39A and B. Photo credit: NASA/Charisse Nahser KSC-2013-1930

Hurricane/Tropical Storm - Shoreacres, Texas, October 8, 2008 -- FEMA House Inspector Michael Lane examines one of the homes on Miramiar Drive that was damaged by Hurricane Ike. Inspections determine how much financial assistance a homeowner is eligible to receive from FEMA. Photo by Greg Henshall / FEMA

[Assignment: 48-DPA-08-12-08_SOI_K_AZ_Border_Pat] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to [Pima County,] Arizona's border area with Mexico, [where he joined] U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel for meetings, tours, [flights, inspections] [48-DPA-08-12-08_SOI_K_AZ_Border_Pat_DOI_6477.JPG]

A group of Bataan Memorial Death March participants

The “Myron’s Miners," comprised of Soldiers assigned

Iver Olsen - Kammerorkester i stueunteriør

Former Navy Special Operations Master Chief Harold

Resande i SJ A014. Statister. - Public domain portrait photograph

Staff Sgt. Shawna Sims, a 92nd Air Refueling Squadron

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility, STS-114 Mission Specialist Stephen Robinson looks at part of the thrust vector control system in a segment of a solid rocket booster. The crew is at KSC for familiarization with Shuttle and mission equipment. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment, plus the external stowage platform, to the International Space Station. KSC-04pd0396

Coast Guard marine inspectors from units across the

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of

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