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Falcon Heavy

See photographs from the maiden voyage of SpaceX’s most powerful rocket.

Press photograph Falcon Heavy prior to launch

SpaceX Horizontal Integration Hanger, from LC-39A

Photographer snaps shot of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy at LC-39A

SpaceX truck drives toward Falcon Heavy at LC-39A

SpaceX truck drives toward Falcon Heavy at NLC-39A

Photographers set up cameras for Falcon Heavy - North of LC-39A

A model of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy seen with the real thing at LC-39A

NROL-37

In support of national defense, launch provider United Launch Alliance successfully launched a classified satellite, designated NROL-37, for the National Reconnaissance Office on June 11, 2016, at 1:51pm ET.

Delta IV Heavy prior to Mobile Service Tower rollback

NROL-37 Patch

Mobile Service Tower at SLC-37B

Mobile Service Tower

Hazardous Operation in Progress

Sunrise over SLC-37B

Mobile Service Tower rollback

Delta IV Heavy

Delta IV Heavy and tower

Delta IV Heavy, Mobile Service Tower rollback

Delta IV Heavy at SLC-37B

Delta IV Heavy from launch viewing area

Liftoff of the NROL-37 on the Delta IV Heavy

NROL-37 Delta IV Heavy Launch, June 11, 2016

In support of national defense, launch provider United Launch Alliance successfully launched a classified satellite, designated NROL-37, for the National Reconnaissance Office on June 11, 2016, at 1:51pm ET.

Liftoff of the NROL-37 on the Delta IV Heavy

Launchpad camera Liftoff!

Go NROL-37! Go Delta IV Heavy! Go ULA!

Delta IV Heavy rockets NROL-37 into space

Go NROL-37! Go Delta IV Heavy! Go ULA!

Farewell, Delta IV Heavy

Delta IV Heavy rockets into space

Delta IV Heavy Time-lapse & Launch of NROL-37

Delta IV Heavy rockets NROL-37 into space

Delta IV Heavy Time-lapse & Launch of NROL-37

Atlas-V & Cygnus OA-6 mated, on launchpad SLC-41

Atlas-V Rocket standing next to new Crew Tower under construction

Photographers set up remote cameras at SLC-41

Atlas-V next to Crew Tower under construction

VAB and the moon; one built for the other

Cygnus OA-6

The fifth flight of Orbital ATK's Cygnus resupply spacecraft to the ISS, the S.S. Rick Husband delivered 3,500 kg of critical cargo and science experiments. Launched March 23, 2016 11:05:52pm.

SpaceX CRS-8

For the first time since the catastrophic explosion of CRS-7, SpaceX’s Dragon was successfully launched April 8, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), beginning the resupply capsule’s two-day orbital journey to rendezvous with the International Space Station.

VAB from far away

Sunrise behind the countdown clock

Sunrise lights up the VAB

Human Spaceflight is Returning to American Soil

Scale models of SpaceX's Dragon, and Boeing's Starliner signify the soon return of human spaceflight to America.

Door to the Space Station Processing Facility SSPF

The SSPF is located in the KSC industrial area, just east of the Operations and Checkout Building. It was built for the processing of the International Space Station flight hardware. The three-story SSPF, a 457,000 square foot building, includes two processing bays, an airlock, operational control rooms, laboratories, logistics areas, office space, and a cafeteria. The processing areas, airlock, and laboratories were designed to support non-hazardous Station and Shuttle payloads in 100,000 class clean work areas.

Advances in VEGGIE

The Vegetable Production System (Veggie) is a deployable plant growth unit capable of producing salad-type crops to provide ISS crews with a nutritious source of fresh food. The Veggie provides lighting and nutrient delivery, but utilizes the cabin environment for temperature control and as a source of carbon dioxide to promote growth.

VEGGIE

DO NOT DROP

This mysterious package in the SSPF seems important...

Limited Area

Important signage at the SSPF

RAFFAELLO Module at SSPF

The three Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules, or MPLMs, which were built by the Italian Space Agency, are pressurized modules that serve as the International Space Station's "moving vans," carrying equipment, experiments and supplies to and from the Station aboard the Space Shuttle.

DONATELLO Multi-Purpose Module

Sneak peak at Orion under construction

NASA News Center

Lilly Experiments going to ISS

Michael Hickey, Kristofer Gonzalez-DeWhitt and Rosamund Smith, researchers Eli Lilly and Company Research Labs, discuss science headed to the ISS aboard SpaceX's Dragon resupply vehicle during the CRS-8 Science Briefing.

NASA and Bigelow present BEAM

Jason Crusan, director, NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Division, and Robert Bigelow, president of Bigelow Aerospace, discuss BEAM and future expandable modules from Bigelow Aerospace.

BEAM and B330

Scale models of Bigelow Aerospace's BEAM and B330 modules