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Color image of man on his back working on a spacecraft.
Source: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Caltech
Published: December 16, 1996

Engineers work on assembly of the Cassini oribter at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1996.

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