Earth Science. NASA public domain image colelction.
The LAGEOS I (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) was developed and launched by the Marshall Space Flight Center on May 4, 1976 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California . The two-foot diameter satellite orbited the ... More
Space Shuttle Atlantis, Earth Science
Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-45) onboard photo of Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (Atlas-1) module in open cargo bay. Atlas-1 pallets are back dropped against the Atlas Mountains. Taken over ... More
NASA Earth Science - Public domain drawing
Workers at Launch Complex 17 Pad A, Kennedy Space Center (KSC) encapsulate the Geomagnetic Tail (GEOTAIL) spacecraft (upper) and attached payload Assist Module-D upper stage (lower) in the protective payload fa... More
NASA Earth Science. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.
A Delta II rocket carrying the Geomagnetic Tail Lab (GEOTAIL) spacecraft lifts off at Launch Complex 17, Kennedy Space Center (KSC) into a cloud-dappled sky. This liftoff marks the first Delta launch under the ... More
NASA Earth Science. NASA public domain image colelction.
Small Expendable Deployer System (SEDS) is a tethered date collecting satellite and is intended to demonstrate a versatile and economical way of delivering smaller payloads to higher orbits or downward toward E... More
NASA Earth Science. NASA public domain image colelction.
Workers at the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville prepared for a news media showing of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-1 (GOES-1). GOES-1 was the first in a new generation of weat... More
NASA Earth Science. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.
The Atlas-1 (AC-77) that will loft the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-J (GOES-J) next-generation advanced technology weather satellite into space sits poised for takeoff during final countdow... More
NASA Earth Science. NASA public domain image colelction.
The reflection of the Atlas IIAS expendable launch vehicle with the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) inside its payload fairing can be seen on the surface of a retention pond at Launch Pad 36B on Cape Cana... More
NASA Earth Science. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft undergoing preflight preparation in the Spacecraft Assembly Encapsulation Facility-2 (SAEF-2) at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). NEAR will perform two critical m... More
NASA Earth Science. NASA public domain image colelction.
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft embarks on a journey that will culminate in a close encounter with an asteroid. The launch of NEAR inaugurates NASA's irnovative Discovery program of small-s... More