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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Space Shuttle Atlantis is hard down on the launch pad after rolling back to Launch Pad 39B. The Atlantic Ocean and lagoon water in the background reflect the glowing light of a setting sun. The shuttle had been moved off the launch pad due to concerns about the impact of Tropical Storm Ernesto, expected within 24 hours. The forecast of lesser winds expected from Ernesto and its projected direction convinced Launch Integration Manager LeRoy Cain and Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach to return the shuttle to the launch pad. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd2006

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, inside a payload fairing, is hoisted to the top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41. The Atlas V will lift MAVEN into space and on to Mars. MAVEN is short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2013-3891

View of the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour at KSC to start the STS-100 mission

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The orbiter Discovery ascent after launch for STS-121

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Artwork: "Shuttle Sortie". - Artist: Steve Bricker. (U.S. Air Force Art Collection)

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Artwork: "The Spirit of the Thunderbirds". Artist: Steve Gonyea, US Air Force Art Collection

Artwork: "In Quest of Space". Artist: Beerman. U.S. Air Force Art Collection

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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.

Free Space artwork and designs. Since its creation in 1958, NASA has been taking copyright-free pictures of the Earth, the Moon, the planets, and other astronomical objects inside and outside our Solar System. Under United States copyright law, works created by the U.S. federal government or its agencies, such as NASA are in public domain and cannot be copyrighted. NASA pictures are legally in the public domain.

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Lockheed F-104A Starfighter (Interceptor)

Artwork: "COL. Tip Clark Over Hahn". Artist: John W. Clark. U.S. Air Force Art Collection

S06-38-900 - STS-006 - Deployment of the TDRS by the STS-6 Challenger

A hand sketched illustration by: US Air Force (USAF) Art Collection. Artist: Michael Coakes. Artwork:"F-16"

Steve Highly, left, Jim Hollinger, center, and Allen Rose calibrate SSM/I radiometers in the Image Processing Facility at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Radiometers mounted aboard a RP-3A Orion aircraft will be used to validate data obtained through the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), a joint Navy/Air Force project

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-122 crew poses for a group portrait near Launch Pad 39B during a training session on the operation of the M-113 armored personnel carrier. An M-113 will be available to transport the crew to safety in the event of an emergency on the pad before their launch. From left are Mission Specialists Rex Walheim, Leopold Eyharts and Hans Schlegel of the European Space Agency, Stanley Love; Commander Steve Frick; Pilot Alan Poindexter; and Mission Specialist Leland Melvin. The crew is participating in Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities, a standard part of launch preparations. The TCDT provides astronauts and ground crews with equipment familiarization, emergency egress training and a simulated launch countdown. On mission STS-122, Atlantis will deliver the European Space Agency's Columbus module to the International Space Station. Columbus is a multifunctional, pressurized laboratory that will be permanently attached to U.S. Node 2, called Harmony, and will expand the research facilities aboard the station. Launch is targeted for Dec. 6. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-07pd3334

A hand-sketched illustration by Artist: Michael Humphries. US Air Force Collection. Artwork:"Night Approach, Bien Hoa, South Vietnam"

A left rear view of the space shuttle Challenger landing after a mission in space

An artist's concept of a transatmospheric vehicle above the earth. PHOTO courtesy of Boeing Co

Approved insignia for: 168th Air Refueling Squadron OFFICIAL U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO (RELEASED)

PH1 Felimon Barbante Sea of Japan....A close-up view of the unmanned submersible Deep Drone on the deck of the fleet tug USNS Narragansett (T-ATF-167) being used during salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL-007). The commercial jet was shot down by Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island on Aug. 30, 1983. All 269 passengers and crewmen were killed. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

Vacuum proving lines (30-inch - 8-inch junction,)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Formerly "For Official Use Only." Unclassified 9/15/1965. Photograph taken November 29, 1950. Measurements Project-97

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