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At Vandenberg Air Force Base in the early '80s, the Space Shuttle Enterprise undergoes Pathfinder fit checks at a tower. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Atlas Negative Collection Image
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The launch gantry is rolled back to reveal NASA's Orion spacecraft mounted atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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The space shuttle Endeavour is seen on launch pad 39a at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Thursday, April 28, 2011. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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The Space Shuttle Discovery soars from Launch Pad 39A Aug. 7 on the 11-day STS-85 mission. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle is ready for launch at Launch Complex 14 at Cape Kennedy, Florida. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket begins its demonstration flight with liftoff from from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Launch of the unmanned Mercury Atlas-1 spacecraft, 29 July 1960. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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SpaceShipTwo Second Powered Flight PF03 January 10, 2014
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Blasting through the hazy late morning sky, the Space Shuttle Discovery soars from Launch Pad 39A on Aug. 7. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Nighttime, ground level view of Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, showing the Apollo 13. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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The Mercury-Atlas 7 carrying astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, was launched by NASA from Pad 14, Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 24, 1962. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Close-up view of Mercury-Atlas 4 at Cape Canaveral. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space Shuttle Columbia climbs into orbit from Launch Pad 39B on Nov. 19, 1996. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Searchlights illuminate this nighttime scene at Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, showing the Apollo 17. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Time-lapse photograph of the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) rocket launch, taken from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in 2013. The image is from the last of four launches. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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An Atlas launch vehicle carrying the Big Joe capsule leaves its launching pad on a 2,000-mile ballistic flight to the altitude of 100 miles. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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A nearly full Moon sets as the space shuttle Discovery sits atop Launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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The Space Shuttle Endeavour rolls out to Launch Pad 39A. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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A seven-year journey of NASA's Cassini spacecraft to the ringed planet Saturn began on Oct. 15, 1997. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space Shuttle Columbia climbs into orbit from Launch Pad 39B on Nov. 19, 1996. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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A Boeing Delta II rocket is framed between the ghostly silhouettes of two press photographers as it launches Deep Space 1 on its mission from Launch Complex 17A. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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An Atlas launch vehicle lifts off with the Mercury spacecraft Sigma 7 atop with astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. aboard. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space Shuttle Columbia climbs into orbit from Launch Pad 39B on Nov. 19, 1996. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Lights frame the orbiter Endeavour as it is lowered onto the platform for mating with the external tank and solid rocket boosters. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Launching of the Mercury-Redstone 3 from Cape Canaveral on astronaut Alan B. Shepard's suborbital mission, 5 May 1961. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Mercury-Redstone 4 launch of Virgil I. Grissom on July 21, 1961, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket suffers a catastrophic anomaly moments after launch. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space shuttle Atlantis external fuel tank-solid rocket booster stack, atop a mobile launcher platform. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Tthe launch of Mercury-Atlas 9 on May 15, 1963. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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The fly-over of Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-93 re-entry is seen above the Johnson Space Center's Rocket Park. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Robie Robot
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As the sun rises in the Mojave Desert in California, the Garvey Spacecraft Corporation's Prospector P-18D rocket is positioned for launch with the RUBICS-1 payload on a high-altitude, suborbital flight. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpi
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Spewing twin columns of fire from the solid rocket boosters as space shuttle Discovery roars into the blue Florida sky toward space on mission STS-120. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Mercury-Atlas 2 liftoff. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space shuttle Atlantis, attached to its bright-orange external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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A Boeing Delta II (7326) rocket lights up the clouds of exhaust below as it propels Deep Space 1 into the sky after liftoff from Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space shuttle Atlantis, attached to its bright-orange external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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A Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle lifts off with NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter on Dec. 11, 1998, from Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space shuttle Atlantis and its four-member STS-135 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station, 8 July 2011. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space shuttle Atlantis and its four-member STS-135 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station, 8 July 2011. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space shuttle Atlantis and its four-member STS-135 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station, 8 July 2011. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Viewed from the Banana River Viewing Site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery arcs through a cloud-brushed sky lighted by the trail of fire after launch on the STS-128 mission. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by r
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Columbia Shuttle blast-off.
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Space shuttle Atlantis and its four-member STS-135 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station, 8 July 2011. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space shuttle Discovery stands tall on Launch Pad 39A as the sun sets over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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The launch of space shuttle Discovery on the STS-131 mission was captured from a field of Florida Power & Light solar panels off of S.R. 3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour during the Shuttle's rollout to Launch Pad 39A. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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The Soyuz MS-02 rocket is launched with Expedition 49 Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, Oct. 19, 2016. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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A Boeing Delta II (7326) rocket lights up the ground as it propels Deep Space 1 into the sky after liftoff from Launch Complex 17A. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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L59-3896 Engineers W. N. Gardner and C.A. Brown, Jr., check operations as Trailblazer 1b is readied for Flight, June 4, 1959. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space shuttle Atlantis, attached to its bright-orange external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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This aerial view shows the high water surrounding Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center following Tropical Storm Fay. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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In this view looking up in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a heavy-lift crane lowers the second half of the D-level work platforms, D north, for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. Original from NASA . Digitally enh
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Engineers W. N. Gardner and C.A. Brown, Jr., check operations as Trailblazer 1b is readied for Flight, June 4, 1959. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space shuttle Atlantis, attached to its bright-orange external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space shuttle Atlantis and its four-member STS-135 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station, 8 July 2011. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour during the Shuttle's rollout to Launch Pad 39A. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility supported the successful launch of three Terrier-Oriole suborbital rockets for the Department of Defense from NASA’s launch range on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, on Feb. 24, 2015. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by
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Jenna blasts off
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