... August 8, 1995 . Columbia Waits, Discovery Launches . Credit: NASA , Kennedy Space Center . ... Space shuttles are launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ...
... May 25, 1961) U.S. president John Kennedy announced the goal of landing Americans on ... Kennedy's ambitious speech triggered a nearly unprecedented peacetime technological ...
... Explanation: At left , the Space Shuttle Discovery waits in darkness on Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B . ... Godspeed John Glenn." while Kennedy Space Center launch control offered, "Let the wings of Discovery lift us into the future ." ...
... Watching from Orlando, Florida, about 60 miles west of the Kennedy Space Center launch site, photographer Tony DeVito captured this digital image, one of a series of pictures of the shuttle's fiery climb. ...
... Explanation: On January 16, NASA's space shuttle Columbia roared into blue morning skies above Kennedy Space Center on STS-107 , the first shuttle mission of 2003. ...
... In Bonn , astrophotographer Thilo Kranz had set up his small refractor telescope and camera on the Kennedy Bridge across the Rhein river to get a good view to the northeast. ...
... From Oak Hill, Florida, USA - about 30 miles north of the Kennedy Space Center - design engineer Andrew Arigema tracked the shuttle and recorded a four minute time exposure of the exhaust plume along Discovery's path against the background of the starry ...
... plays across the 130 foot high Rotating Service Structure (RSS) in this dramatic night view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A. Small human figures visible in silhouette emphasize the structure's enormous scale ...
... Endeavour left planet Earth on November 14 from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, making the 27th flight to the International Space Station . ...