Under the goals of the Vision for Space Exploration, Ares I is a chief component of the cost-effective space transportation infrastructure being developed by NASA's Constellation Program. This transportation sy More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A memorial erected by the Hemphill, Texas, community commemorates a location where remains of a fallen Columbia astronaut were found. Kennedy Space Center workers are participating More
This photograph shows the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (GRO) being deployed by the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-37 mission in April 1991. The GRO reenter More
Center Director Roy Bridges displays the ISO 9001 certificate he was awarded by Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Inc., an international ISO certification organization, at a ceremony at KSC. Dalton Lyon of DNV made the More
Center Director Roy Bridges (right) displays the 2000th ISO Certificate Plaque he was given by Dalton Lyon (left) of Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Inc., an international ISO certification organization, at a ceremon More
Center Director Roy Bridges speaks to KSC employees at the ISO certification ceremony held at the Training Auditorium. Bridges was presented an ISO 9001 certificate and plaque awarded to KSC by Det Norske Verit More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Kennedy Space Center and Forest Service workers pose in front of a helicopter landed at the Nacogdoches field site. The helicopter is one of those being used to survey for parts of More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center engineer Lamar Russell, who is serving as team lead for debris siting reports outside of Texas, points out to his Lufkin Command Center team a location ta More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- John Lopez of Bristol, Texas, a crew boss for a camp crew at the Nacogdoches site, looks over tents used by U.S. Forest Service workers in the field searching for parts of Columbia More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of a U.S. Forest Service search team walk a grid during a Columbia Recovery search near the Nacogdoches site. The group is accompanied by a space program worker able to ide More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Gateway Support Security Officer Jeff Ellison signs in a worker at the Nacogdoches site. In the background, NASA site lead Ronnie Lawson (left) speaks with his United Space A More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Eric Baker, a United Space Alliance project engineer at Kennedy Space Center, (right) works at the Lufkin Command Center to track hazardous tank finds. KSC workers are participatin More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Temporary camp worker Michael Trujillo of North New Mexico displays chaps in the supply tent at the Nacogdoches site. The chaps are used by U.S. Forest Service, Environmental Prote More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Jeff Angermeier, assigned to lead the ground operations at the Lufkin Command Center, points out a town near the Columbia debris field. KSC workers are participating in the Columbi More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of a U.S. Forest Service search team walk a grid during a Columbia Recovery search near the Hemphill site. The group is accompanied by a space program worker able to identi More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Lisa DeVries uses a sensor to test a piece of Columbia at the Barksdale Hangar for toxic fumes. DeVries, on assignment at Barksdale, La., works with United Space Alliance Safety a More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Kennedy Space Center workers chat with Forest Service workers at the Hemphill site in East Texas before heading out to the field for grid searches. KSC workers are participating i More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of a Columbia Recovery search team take a break while walking a grid during a search near the Hemphill site. At center is NASA engineer Clay Thomlinson. The U.S. Forest Ser More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- (From left) Dean Schaaf, Barksdale site manager and NASA KSC Shuttle Process Integration Ground Operations manager, and Elliot Clement, an United Space Alliance engineer at Kenned More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- David Mclaughlin, Prototype Lab technician at Kennedy Space Center, (center) poses with his Native American search team, the Laguna Firefighters from New Mexico, at the Hemphill s More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At left, David Mclaughlin, Prototype Lab technician at Kennedy Space Center, listens to a coworker at the Hemphill site in East Texas before going to the field with his search tea More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of a U.S. Forest Service search team walk a grid during a Columbia Recovery search near the Hemphill site. The group is accompanied by a space program worker able to identi More