Some of the nearly 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of Perseverance mission flight hardware, test gear and equipment delivered to Kennedy Space Center on May 11, 2020, is unloaded from a NASA Wallops C-130. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23918

Astronaut Christina Koch unloads new hardware for the Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station the week of Dec. 9, 2020. The Cold Atom Laboratory launched to the space station on May 21, 2018, aboard a Northrop Grumman (formerly Orbital ATK) Cygnus spacecraft from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Designed and built at JPL, CAL is sponsored by the International Space Station Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and the Space Life and Physical Sciences Research and Applications (SLPSRA) Division of NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23404

iss067e266393 (Aug. 14, 2022) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti unloads cargo from the SpaceX Dragon 25th resupply mission to the space station in July, 2022.

51L-10187 (18 April 1986) --- A 9'7" x 16' segment of Challenger's right wing is unloaded at the Logistics Facility after being off-loaded from the rescue and salvage ship USS Opportune. It was located and recovered by Navy divers from the Opportune about 12 nautical miles northeast of Cape Canaveral in 70 feet of water. Photo credit: NASA

In southern California, the combined ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach account for 33% of the nation containerized imports. This image from NASA Terra spacecraft shows the large backlog of waiting cargo ships being slowly unloaded. The left image was acquired July 4, 2014 during normal operations: 14 ships are being unloaded, while 7 wait their turns near the facilities. The right image was acquired on March 8, 2015: 19 ships are moored at unloading docks, while 47 ships wait their turns. The images cover an area of 16.7 x 18.6 km, and are located at 33.7 degrees north, 118.2 degrees west. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19249

Two small spacecrafts satellites that make up NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission to Mars arrived at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2024. Set to launch from Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, the Rocket Lab spacecraft will study the solar wind and how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape.

Two small spacecrafts satellites that make up NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission to Mars arrived at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2024. Set to launch from Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, the Rocket Lab spacecraft will study the solar wind and how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape.

Two small spacecrafts satellites that make up NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission to Mars arrived at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2024. Set to launch from Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, the Rocket Lab spacecraft will study the solar wind and how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape.

ISS009-E-18558 (15 August 2004) --- Cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, Expedition 9 commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, holds packages of food, as two apples float freely near him, in the Unity node of the International Space Station (ISS). The food was recently unloaded from the Progress 15 supply vehicle docked to the Station. The functional cargo block (FGB) or Zarya hatchway is visible in the background.

Technicians unload the LEAPTech experimental wing upon its arrival at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. Ground testing will begin after the wing is mounted on a specially modified truck.

RBSP Centaur Stage is Unloaded at Port & Moved to ASOC

RBSP Centaur Stage is Unloaded at Port & Moved to ASOC

RBSP Centaur Stage is Unloaded at Port & Moved to ASOC

RBSP Centaur Stage is Unloaded at Port & Moved to ASOC

RBSP Centaur Stage is Unloaded at Port & Moved to ASOC

RBSP Centaur Stage is Unloaded at Port & Moved to ASOC

RBSP Centaur Stage is Unloaded at Port & Moved to ASOC

RBSP Centaur Stage is Unloaded at Port & Moved to ASOC

RBSP Centaur Stage is Unloaded at Port & Moved to ASOC

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

STS-50 Onboard photo: Payload Commander Bornie Dunbar unloading the SACA.

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

LOX STA unload from Pegasus at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

On March 20, 2021, members of the NISAR mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California received the S-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from their partner in India. Together with the L-band SAR provided by JPL, the two radars serve as the beating heart of the mission (the "S" and "L" denote the wavelength of the signal they transmit). A collaboration between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), NISAR (short for NASA-ISRO SAR) will use SAR to track subtle changes in Earth's surface. In doing so, it will spot warning signs of imminent volcanic eruptions, help to monitor groundwater supplies, track the melt rate of ice sheets tied to sea level rise, and observe shifts in the distribution of vegetation around the world. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24138

THE ORION EFT-1 DIAPHGRAM BEING UNLOADED AND UNWRAPPED PRIOR TO BEING PLACED IN THE CLEAN ROOM FOR TESTING.

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

Horizontal loading & unloading of payload canister with test weights in O&C high bay, November 12, 1980

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

SOIL UNLOAD FOR THE SIMULATED PLANETARY BODY FIELD IN THE WEST TEST AREA. AREA TO BE USED FOR TESTING OF THE MIGHTY EAGLE LANDER

Arrival and Unloading of the Mechanical Vibration Facility Table Hardware at Space Power Facility, SPF

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

Arrival and Unloading of the Mechanical Vibration Facility Table Hardware at Space Power Facility, SPF

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

THE ORION EFT-1 DIAPHGRAM BEING UNLOADED AND UNWRAPPED PRIOR TO BEING PLACED IN THE CLEAN ROOM FOR TESTING.

SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

Engineers unload ground support equipment for a June engineering test flight above Kauai, Hawaii. The test flight is part of NASA LDSD project, which is investigating cutting-edge landing technologies that could fly on future Mars missions.

NASA's Daryl Ferguson, mission commander and pilot, Steve Hamilton and Brad Petty unload the TigerShark at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.

The saucer-shaped test vehicle for NASA Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator LDSD project, packaged in the box shown here, was shipped via plane to the Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii on April 17.

On Oct. 10, 2021, NASA's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument captured an image of over 70 ships waiting to dock and unload at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, due to a supply-chain crunch. The image covers an area of 14 by 16 miles (23 by 25 kilometers). https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24902

Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation's Steve Hamilton, lead TigerShark pilot, and Brad Petty, mission commander and pilot, unload the crate containing the TigerShark at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.

S66-50152 (1966) --- A stage of the uprated Saturn 1 launch vehicle unloaded from NASA barge Promise after arrival at Cape Kennedy. Launch vehicle for Apollo/Saturn 204 mission.

JAST (Joint Advanced Strike Technology) X-32 Test Program: Lockheed ASTOVL / CALF X-32, N-246 Test #930 arrival, unloading and test prep.

ISS035-E-010424 (30 March 2013) --- NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Expedition 35 flight engineer, works with the loading and unloading of supplies in the Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station.

THE TRAILER CONTAINING THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE (JWST) BACKPLANE TEST ARTICLE IS UNLOADED FROM THE C5A AIRCRAFT AT REDSTONE AIRFIELD. THE TEST ARTICLE IS SCHEDULED TO UNDERGO TESTING AT THE X-RAY CALIBRATION FACILITY (XRCF) AT MSFC.

ISS035-E-010416 (30 March 2013) --- NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Expedition 35 flight engineer, works with the loading and unloading of supplies in the Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station.

At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the aft stub adapter (ASA) and nozzle for a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is removed from its shipping container. The launch vehicle will send NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, spacecraft to land on Mars. InSight is the first mission to explore the Red Planet's deep interior. It will investigate processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system including Earth. Liftoff from Vandenberg is scheduled for May 5, 2018.

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Marlon Espinoza uses a forklift at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, to assist in Samaritan Purse's COVID-19 aid work. The supplies were unloaded from a DC-8 and loaded onto a truck.

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Samaritan Purse landed its DC-8 at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, to deliver supplies needed to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. NASA Armstrong personnel assisted in unloading the aircraft.

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iss063e017199 (May 26, 2020) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy unloads a bag packed with fresh food from Japan's resupply ship, the H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 (HTV-9), that had arrived at the International Space Station the day before.

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iss067e205717 (July 16, 2022) --- Expedition 67 Flight Engineers (from left) Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, and Kjell Lindgren (all from NASA), unload cargo and time-critical science experiments a couple of hours after the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship docked to the Harmony module's forward port on the International Space Station.

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Derek Abramson and Robert Jensen unload the Hybrid Quadrotor 90C (HQ-90) at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Lab in California on Oct. 1, 2020. The Resilient Autonomy project will use the vertical lift and transition remotely piloted aircraft for software testing at NASA Armstrong.

ISS011-E-11317 (29 July 2005) --- Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, Expedition 11 commander, and astronaut Wendy B. Lawrence, STS-114 mission specialist, prepare to unload the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) docked to the international space station.

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ISS042E119635 (01/11/2015) --- US Astronaut Barry Wilmore, Expedition 42 Commander sits in the International Space Stations CUPOLA after successfully controling the robotic Canadarm to grapple the SPACEX Dragon spacecraft, bringing it into the port where it can be unloaded. It carried 2 and a half tons of supplies and science equipment.

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iss069e018207 (June 6, 2023) --- UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi begins unloading cargo from the SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle shortly after it docked to the International Space Station on June 6, 2023.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Pad 39B, the crawler-transporter moves Space Shuttle Atlantis along the ramp and away from the rotating and fixed service structures, at right, on its rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building. First motion off the pad was at 10:04 a.m. EDT. The crawler is 131 feet long, 113 feet wide and 20 feet high. It weights 5.5 million pounds unloaded. The combined weight of crawler, mobile launcher platform and a space shuttle is 12 million pounds. Unloaded, the crawler moves at 2 mph. Loaded, the snail's pace slows to 1 mph. The rollback is a safety precaution as the area waits for the arrival of Tropical Storm Ernesto. The storm is forecast to be bringing 58-mph to 70-mph winds in the next 24 hours. The shuttle will be moved into high bay 2, on the southwest side of the VAB, for protection from the storm. Photo credit: NASA/Ken Thornsley

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Pad 39B, the crawler-transporter moves Space Shuttle Atlantis away from the rotating and fixed service structures, at right, on its rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building. First motion off the pad was at 10:04 a.m. EDT. The crawler is 131 feet long, 113 feet wide and 20 feet high. It weights 5.5 million pounds unloaded. The combined weight of crawler, mobile launcher platform and a space shuttle is 12 million pounds. Unloaded, the crawler moves at 2 mph. Loaded, the snail's pace slows to 1 mph. The rollback is a safety precaution as the area waits for the arrival of Tropical Storm Ernesto. The storm is forecast to be bringing 58-mph to 70-mph winds in the next 24 hours. The shuttle will be moved into high bay 2, on the southwest side of the VAB, for protection from the storm. Photo credit: NASA/Ken Thornsley