President John F Kennedy at the welcoming ceremony honoring John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, at the Manned Spacecraft...
In the White House's Oval Office, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Dr William Pickering and NASA Administrator James E Webb present a model...
President John F Kennedy presenting Dr Robert R Gilruth with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in a ceremony held at Hangar 'S' of the Manned...
During a reception in the White House Rose Garden, American astronaut Alan B Shepard Jr shakes hands with US President John F Kennedy , Washington...
President John F Kennedy at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, September 11, 1962. A briefing is given by Major Rocco Petrone to the president...
Seamans, von Braun and President Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 1963. Dr. Wernher von Braun explains the Saturn Launch System to President...
Gilruth presents President Kennedy with a model of the Apollo spacecraft, 1960s. Dr. Robert R. Gilruth , Manned Spacecraft Center Director, presents...
American President John F. Kennedy speaks from a lecturn in front of a full-size model of the projected design for a lunar landing module during a...
Kennedy Receives Mariner 2 Model, 1961. Dr. William H. Pickering, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director, presenting Mariner spacecraft model to...
President Kennedy Tours Marshall with von Braun, September 11, 1962. President John F. Kennedy at Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama, USA. Here...
Kennedy Presents Award to Gilruth, 1962. US President John F. Kennedy presents Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center,...
Mercury Astronauts Receiving the Collier Trophy, White House, Washington, USA, 1963. NASA Administrator James E. Webb cites the space achievements of...
President Kennedy tours Mercury Control Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 1962. President John F. Kennedy is briefed on the operation of Mercury...
View of the Apollo 11 rocket standing with its gantry on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket served the first...
The construction of the first stage of Apollo Saturn 502 , the rocket for lunar module Apollo 6 in the Vehicle Assembly Building of the Kennedy Space...
Aerial view of the Launch Complex 39 at John F Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, 1999. Image courtesy National Aeronautics and Space...
President John F. Kennedy is set off by an exhibit of one of the National Aeronautics and Space Agencies proposed lunar landing vehicles, or "Moon...
The Launch Control Center, Firing Room 3, bustles with activity during May 6th dry portion of the countdown demonstration test, a dress rehearsal for...
Portrait of American engineer and NASA astronaut Mae Jemison at work at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 1992.
Kennedy Space Center, Florida: Personnel in Firing Room 2 of the Launch Control Center monitor pre-launch activities prior to the lift off of Apollo...
American NASA command module pilot Ken Mattingly, followed by American NASA lunar module pilot Charles Duke, and American NASA mission commander John...
Dr. Kurt H. Debus , Director, Kennedy Space Center, participates in Apollo 11 countdown demonstration test within the launch control center's firing...
Kennedy Space Center, FL- Some of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 1,000 guests view the liftoff of Apollo-10, which will carry...
Space Shuttle Columbia rises into the sky as it lifts off, an exhaust cloud filling the launch pad area, with the glow of the solid rocket boosters...
Drawing depicting Spacelab being installed in the Orbiter's cargo bay at the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida,...
Wreckage of the Space Shuttle Challenger displayed in the Logistics Facility of Kennedy Space Center in Houston, Texas, 9th April 1986. The wreckage...
American astronaut Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr , Commander of NASA's upcoming Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, with the mission's insignia behind him at...
The launch of NASA's Apollo 11 space vehicle from Pad A, Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on its lunar landing mission, 16th...
Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas- Skylab II astronauts Dr. Owen K. Garriott, science pilot; Jack R. Lousma, pilot; and Alan L. Bean, commander....
Kennedy Space Center, Florida: Apollo 14 Commander Alan Shepard watches a technician conduct spacesuit checks today prior to his participation in the...
The Apollo Saturn 501 spacecraft coupled with the Service Module and Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter is moved into the Vehicle Assembly Building at...
American NASA astronaut Fred Haise and American NASA astronaut Jim Lovell adjust a portion of the heat flow experiment, containing a drill to...
Model of the Space Shuttle Orbiter 101 attached to stiffleg derrick, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 2nd November 1976.
Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, 1st July 1997. The primary payload on...
The Space Shuttle Columbia is taken by crawler-transporter from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center in...
During a visit to the Saturn blockhouse of Cape Kennedy's Launch Complex, American politician US President Lyndon B Johnson and NASA officials, among...
Space shuttle Atlantis launches from John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, beginning its STS-37 mission.
Kennedy Space Center, Florida: Rollout of the Apollo 14 launch vehicle began at 6:30 A. Am EST, November 9. About 4 1/2 to 5 hours was required for...
Kennedy Space Center, Florida: Apollo 14 Lunar Module pilot Edgar D. Mitchell speaks with a spacesuit technician during suiting activities preceding...
Cape Kennedy, Florida- In the launch control center at Complex 34, awaiting the liftoff of Apollo 7, are the director of Kennedy Space Center and the...
Kennedy Space Center, Florida: Apollo-Saturn 501 second stage spacer is being transferred at the Vehicle Assembly building. The National Aeronautics...
Kennedy Space Center, FL-: Personnel in the Launch Control Center's Firing Room monitor the final count of the "dry" portion of the week-long...
Cape Canavaral, FL- Lisa Malone the first woman in NASA's 30-year history to count down a manned space flight poses in front of the count clock at...
Cape Canaveral, FL- The contrail of the Space Shuttle Challenger can be seen over the Kennedy Space Center after an apparent explosion of the orbiter.
Group portrait of the Apollo 14 astronauts at a prelaunch news conference, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. L-R: Edgar J Mitchell, Alan...
View of President Lyndon Johnson, center, visiting the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, September 15, 1964. He is seen speaking with astronaut Wally...
American lab technician Cheryl Tuchman takes a blood sample from American NASA photographer Bill Taub in the Launch Site Medical Operations...
Top-to-bottom view of the Apollo 11 Saturn V super heavy-lift launch vehicle as a fuelling exercise is conducted during rollout on its mobile...
Crew portrait of STS-88. Seated: Russian RSA cosmonaut Sergei K Krikalev and American NASA astronaut Nancy J Currie. Sstanding American NASA...
Spectators watch as the Space Shuttle Challenger leaving a plume of smoke at the launch of mission STS-51-F launch from Kennedy Space Center on...
American NASA astronaut Jim Lovell holding a camera during Extravehicular Activity training at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, 3rd...
American NASA astronaut Scott J Horowitz wearing his partial-pressure launch-and-entry suit communicates with ground control from the pilot's station...
Astronaut John Young taxis his T-38 jet onto a runway at Patrick Air Force Base after a flight from Houston, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, US, 8th...
The sun sets over a row of T-38 Talon aircraft, each with the canopy in an upright position, at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida,...
American NASA astronaut and politician John Glenn seated in the cockpit of a T-38 Talon aircraft as fellow STS-95 crewmember American NASA astronaut...
High angle view of the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Challenger in the Lockheed Log Building at Kennedy Space Center in Houston, Texas, 6th March...
Space Shuttle Discovery about to be hoisted into a tail-toward-ground mode for mating to its two solid rocket boosters and an external tank in the...
Aerial view of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis leaving an exhaust plume, with the orbiter riding atop the glow of the firing solid rocket...
The three Apollo 15 astronauts suits up during the pre-launch countdown of NASA's Apollo 15 lunar landing mission, in the Manned Spacecraft...