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Guinness World Records officially designated NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 as the heaviest self-powered vehicle, weighing approximately 6.65 million pounds—equivalent to about 15 Statues of Liberty or 1,000 pickup trucks. During a March 29, 2023, ceremony at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Guinness World Records presented a certificate to teams ...
The sun rises on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Crew-6 mission is the sixth crew-rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program; it is scheduled to launch at 1...
An American bald eagle occupies a nest near Kennedy Parkway North at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 8, 2023. Each year, eagles take up winter residence at the Florida spaceport, breeding and raising a new generation. The center shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, home to more than 1,500 species of plants and animals, and ...
In this photo from Oct. 14, 2008, a great blue heron stands watch among a pond of water lilies on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It is one of 310 species of birds that inhabit the National Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge, which shares a boundary with Kennedy. The marshes and open water of the refuge also provide wintering areas for 23 species of migratory...
The Artemis I Orion capsule is secured on a platform inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this image from Jan. 6, 2023. Orion splashed down on Dec. 11, 2022 and was transported back to Kennedy for de-servicing inside the MPPF. During Orion’s 25.5-day trip beyond the Moon and back, it flew farther than any ...
On April 8, 2022, this 30-second exposure captured the International Space Station as it passed over the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This photo was chosen by the NASA Headquarters photographers as one of the best images from 2022. See the rest on Flickr. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky 2022年4月...
An osprey is seen in front of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard as launch preparations continued Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This photo was chosen by the NASA Headquarters photographers as one of the best from 2022. See the rest on Flickr. Image Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber 2022年9月2日，星期五，在佛...
NASA的猎户座飞船在完成了一项破纪录的任务后，于太平洋时间周日上午9点40分在下加利福尼亚州西部的太平洋溅落，在绕月轨道上飞行了140多万英里，安全返回地球，完成了阿尔忒弥斯一号的飞行测试。
2022年11月16日星期三，NASA的太空发射系统火箭携带猎户座飞船在阿尔忒弥斯1号飞行测试中发射，发射地点位于佛罗里达州的NASA肯尼迪航天中心的39B发射场。NASA的阿尔忒弥斯1号任务是该机构深空探索系统的首次综合飞行测试：包含猎户座飞船、太空发射系统（SLS）火箭和地面系统。SLS和猎户座飞船于美国东部时间凌晨1:47从肯尼迪航天中心的39B发射台发射。 影像来源：NASA/Bill Ingalls 继世界上最强大的火箭——NASA的太空发射系统(SLS)成功发射后，该机构的猎户座飞船作为阿尔忒弥斯计划的一部分，正在前往月球的途中。SLS搭载一枚无人猎户座火箭，于美国东部时间周三凌晨1点47分从NASA位于佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心的39B发射台升空，进行了首次飞行测试。 这次发射是任务的第一站，猎户座...
The Moon is seen rising above NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch of the uncrewed flight test is targeted for no earlier than Nov. 16 at 1:04 a.m. EST. Coverage begins with cryogenic fueling of the SLS ...