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Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., finishes suiting up, and prepares for the launch of his Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) spacecraft. The…

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NASA and its international partners completed assembly of the International Space Station in the fall of 2011.

Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, designed and built the life support systems that provides the…

Node 1, called Unity, was the first element of the International Space Station launched on Dec. 4, 1998.

The Unity node, launched on December 4, 1998.

Spacelab, a lab that fit inside the space shuttle payload bay, launched on its first mission on Nov. 28, 1983.…

Astronauts practiced the repair in a Neutral Buoyancy Simulator.