617 Free Photos of Space Shuttle

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The Space Shuttle Discovery soars from Launch Pad 39A Aug. 7 on the 11-day STS-85 mission.

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Liftoff of spacecraft on cloudy day

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Reflection on astronaut's visor

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Space rocket taking off on overcast day

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A Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) is seen against the late afternoon sun as the crew of the final space shuttle mission practices landings at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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The mobile launcher platform with space shuttle Endeavour on top comes to rest on Launch Pad 39A.

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Destiny Laboratory Attached to International Space Station

The mobile launcher platform with space shuttle Endeavour on top comes to rest on Launch Pad 39A.

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The Space Shuttle Endeavour's crew recorded a series of 35mm and 70mm fly around survey photos of Russia's Mir Space Station.

The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Nov. 25, 2010.

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Following the Space Shuttle Atlantis - Russian Mir Space Station undocking activities.

The orbiter drag chute deploys after the Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis lands on Runway 15 of the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility at the conclusion of the nearly 11-day STS-86 mission, Oct. 6, 1997.

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CRS–8 (2016).

Dragon to Mars (2015). Concept art of sending Dragon to Mars.

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Iridium–1 Launch (2017).

Falcon 9 first stage in hangar (2015).

This picture of the International Space Station was photographed from the space shuttle Atlantis in the early hours of July 19, 2011.

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This aerial view shows the 15,000-foot long Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Drop Test Vehicle (SRB-DTV) captive flight on NB-52B.

Final Launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS-134 Mission, 16 May 2011.

Full views of Mir Space Station after undocking during flyaround.

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Looking up from Pad 40 (2016).

At NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, a Gulfstream III jet is preparing to take off with space shuttle Atlantis' four STS-135 astronauts and their families for the return trip home to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Making history with the first-ever launch on Independence Day, Space Shuttle Discovery rockets into the blue sky on mission STS-121, trailing fiery exhaust from the main engine nozzles.

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Artist Illustration of BFR in flight (2018).

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Astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams during EVA 5 on Expedition 13.

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International Space Station solar array wings.

The space shuttle Endeavour is seen projected in the sky as powerful xenon lights illuminate launch pad 39a shortly.

Hubble Servicing Mission

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Astronaut Mark C. Lee floats freely as he tests the new Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system.

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As it arcs into space, space shuttle Discovery is lighted by sunlight after leaving the darker skies over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the STS-119 mission.

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A view from inside the cargo bay of NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft reveals that the shipping container with the Orion heat shield for Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) was offloaded at the Shuttle Landing Facility, managed and operated by Space Florida, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis, secured atop a mobile launch platform.

The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft departs from the International Space Station Zvezda Service Module and heads toward a landing near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Nov. 11, 2013 (Kazakh time).

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Smoke and steam billow across Launch Complex 39B as the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-121. July 4th, 2006.

NASA's GOES-P meteorological satellite is delivered to the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft.

This photo shows the cockpit of A Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) sitting on the Shuttle Landing Facility runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Carried atop an orbiter transporter,

Cape Canaveral Florida Launch Pad

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Carried atop an orbiter transporter,

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-133 Commander Steve Lindsey guides the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) in touch-and-go landings over the Shuttle Landing Facility runway.

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Discovery lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida beginning its final flight, the STS-133 mission, to the International Space Station, Feb 24.

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.

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DSCOVR (2015).

The Soyuz MS-02 rocket is launched with Expedition 49 Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, Oct. 19, 2016.

The view members of NASA’s Engineering Management Board had in looking up the Vehicle Assembly Building’s High Bay 3 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Earth’s thin line of atmosphere and a starry sky just off the port wing of the docked space shuttle Endeavour are featured in this image, 28 May 2011.

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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.

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The Gemini-10 spacecraft is launched from Complex 19 at 5:20 p.m., July 18, 1966.

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Astronaut Mark C. Lee (right) floats freely as he continues to test the new Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system while converging with astronaut Carl J. Meade (left).

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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.

The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City will be the new home of the space shuttle Enterprise.

SAOCOM 1A Mission (2018).

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Interplanetary Transport System (2016).

Rising from fire and smoke, NASA's Juno planetary probe, enclosed in its payload fairing, launches atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Space shuttle Discovery is silhouetted against the dawn sky as it rolls out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. the fog on Launch Pad 39B is pierced by lights on vehicles and the service structures as Space Shuttle Atlantis approaches. Atlantis left the Vehicle Assembly Building 1:05 a.m. and arrived at the pad nearly 8 hours later. Atlantis' launch window begins Aug. 27 for an 11-day mission, STS-115, to the International Space Station. The mission crew of six astronauts will continue construction of the station and install their cargo, the Port 3/4 truss segment with its two large solar arrays. Photo credit: NASA /Rod Ostoski

High up in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an overhead crane has lowered the final work platform, A north, into place for installation in High Bay 3.

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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.

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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.

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Marsh driftwood and Florida shrubbery frame the liftoff

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View of the launch of the Little Joe-5B spacecraft from Wallops Island on April 28, 1961.

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Of Course I Still Love You (2015).

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Camera view from under the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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The exhaust plume from space shuttle Atlantis is seen as it launches from pad 39A on Friday, July 8, 2011, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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With more than 23 times the power output of the Hoover Dam, NASA’s Ares I-X test rocket soars into blue skies above Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Three view art of the North American X-15.

Workers control support ropes from the space shuttle Enterprise to lift it off of a barge and onto the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum where it will be permanently displayed .

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Space Shuttle Columbia climbs into orbit from Launch Pad 39B on Nov. 19, 1996.

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Atlantis on Approach to ISS during the STS-132 Mission, 16 May 2010.

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A Shuttle Training Aircraft piloted by NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson.

Xenon lights illuminate space shuttle Discovery as it makes its nighttime trek, known as rollout, from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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The Mir Space Station rapidly approaches the NASA-Mir link-ups., 24 January 1998.

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A NASA Emergency Response Team (ERT) member, keeps an eye out while flying near the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) prior to the launch of space shuttle Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

A shuttle training aircraft takes off from the Johnson Space Center's El Paso Forward Operating Location.

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APOLLO XII - countdown demonstration test (CDDT).

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.

Space shuttle Discover standing on the fiery columns erupting from the solid rocket boosters as it lifts off Launch Pad 39B on mission STS-116.

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Telstar 18 Vantage Mission (2018).

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A crescent moon is featured in this image photographed by an STS-133 crew member on space shuttle Discovery.

A helicopter patrols the sky over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida before the launch of space shuttle Discovery on the STS-119 mission.

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.

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Atlantis nears touchdown for the final time on Runway 15 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 21 July 2011.

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STS-135 crew members inspect tools they will use in space during the STS-135 Crew Equipment Interface Test at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday, April 8, 2011, in Florida.

Shooting like a roman candle into Florida's blue sky, Space Shuttle Discovery kicks off the Fourth of July fireworks with its own fiery display and makes history with the first ever launch on Independence Day.

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Volunteers portraying astronauts are transported to ambulances as part of a Mode II-IV evacuation simulation exercise at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, which conducted by The Space Shuttle Program and U.S. Air Force.

The space shuttle Atlantis is seen shortly after the rotating service structure (RSS) was rolled back at launch pad 39a, Thursday, July 7, 2011 at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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Payload bay activity during first EVA of STS-72 mission. Jan 15th, 1996.

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Space Shuttle Discovery encased in the Mate-Demate Device at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California.

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A bald eagle is perched in a tree near the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA's Super Guppy aircraft arrives at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility after leaving Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

The Virgin Atlantic Airways GlobalFlyer aircraft sails across the sky near NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility.

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A drifting smoke plumes from the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis appear to swirl above the Vehicle Assembly Building near sunset.

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