The newly arrived Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is framed by a grappling fixture on the mate-demate device at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The aircraft, known as an SCA, arrived at 5:35 p.m. EDT to prepare for shuttle Discovery’s ferry flight to the Washington Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Va., [...]

Editor’s Note: This is part of a larger Flickr set, "NASA Views Earth at Night," located here: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/ From 220 miles above Earth, one of the Expedition 26 crew members used a 32-mm lens to capture this night time image of much of the Florida peninsula. The picture needs to be rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise [...]

This image is part of a series showing many of the steps to recover a Solid Rocket Booster, beginning with landing of the booster in the Atlantic ocean some 140 to 160 miles east of the coast of Florida. The final images show Liberty Star and Freedom Star recovery ships arrival at the dock at [...]

Local call number: c800717 Title: [Costumed Spaceman greets tourists at Kennedy Space Center : Cape Canaveral, Florida] Date: Between 1964 and 1980. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint : b&w ; 3 x 3 in.. Series Title: (Commerce Collection.) Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850-245-6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us [...]

This image is part of a series showing many of the steps to recover a Solid Rocket Booster, beginning with landing of the booster in the Atlantic ocean some 140 to 160 miles east of the coast of Florida. The final images show Liberty Star and Freedom Star recovery ships arrival at the dock at [...]

The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft makes contact with the runway at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The aircraft, known as an SCA, arrived at 5:35 p.m. EDT to prepare for shuttle Discovery’s ferry flight to the Washington Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Va., on April 17. This SCA, designated NASA [...]