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A Space Shuttle Main Engine undergoing a full power second test firing.

The spacecraft Galileo is prepared for its trip to Jupiter.

Overnight on Jan. 28, 1986 icicles formed on the launch pad and service tower.

The STS-107 Crew stands with the SPACEHAB during training.

Discovery goes through the meticulous process of being prepared for liftoff on Mission STS-70 in early June of 1995.

The Space Shuttle orbiter Endeavour flies atop NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle carrier Aircraft.

The Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise flies free after being released from NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

The Solar X-ray radiation satellite, Vanguard satellite SLV-2, is being checked out at Cape Canaveral.

This is the first "Zero" that came into Allied hands during World War II.

The JATO team watches as Dr. Theodore von Karman sketches out a plan.

At the Electronics Resource Center's Space Optics Laboratory, a laser is checked during operation.

A celebration erupts at Mission Control after a successful splashdown of the Apollo 13 Odyssey.

The plane is mounted in the 30 x 60 Full Scale Tunnel in 1934, prepared for testing.

This picture shows the static test firing of the DM-2 for the Solid Rocket Booster.

Commander David R. Scoot works at Rover near the Hadley-Apennine landing site in the third EVA of the Apollo 15 mission.

Replicas of the communication satellites used to broadcast the 19th Olympic Games from Mexico City to Japan and Europe.

The Lockheed C-141 model is in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel, the world's first aeroelastic testing tunnel.

The OMEGA trains astronauts in zero-g on a horizontal plane.

A photograph of the Apollo 16 lunar module known as Orion as seen by the Lunar Module pilot.

The Apollo 16 command module shown before splashdown after completing a lunar landing mission.

Mission commander Alan Shepard Jr. is shown during an EVA.

Shelia Scott served as governor of the British section of the Ninety-Nines.

A lunar panorama shows Geologist-Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt working at the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the second Apollo 17 extravehicular activity.

Gemini 6 view of Gemini 7 during rendezvous maneuvers.

NASA scientists use this plexiglass space station airlock test model to train astronauts for operations in space.