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3/4 Low front view of fuselage and fan. Showing jet engine hanging below. Lift fan powered by jet exhaust. General...
This illustration shows general characteristics of the Skylab with callouts of its major components. In an early...
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows...
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows...
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows...
3/4 Low front view of fuselage and fan. Showing jet engine hanging below. Lift fan powered by jet exhaust.
NASA’s Aerosciences Evaluation and Test Capabilities Portfolio (AETC) is helping to enable the next generation of...
The C-140 JetStar was reconfigured as the General Purpose Airborne Simulator (GPAS) to simulate the flight...
This chart describes the Skylab student experiment X-Ray Stellar Classes, proposed by Joe Reihs of Baton Rouge,...
ISS029-E-011813 (29 Sept. 2011) --- In the International Space Station?s Destiny laboratory, Japan Aerospace...
This cutaway illustration shows the characteristics and basic elements of the Skylab Orbiter Workshop (OWS). The OWS...
NASA's single-seat F-16XL makes a drag chute landing at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The...
The Gasdynamic Mirror, or GDM, is an example of a magnetic mirror-based fusion propulsion system. Its design is...
NASA's single-seat F-16XL makes a drag chute landing on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave...
Human-generated greenhouse gases and atmospheric particles were affecting global drought risk as far back as the...
The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for the Global...
The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for the Global...
The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for the Global...
ISS013-E-75141 (2 Sept. 2006) --- Erg Oriental, Algeria is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 13...
STS089-743-004 (22-31 Jan. 1998) --- This picture showing Auckland Island, New Zealand was photographed with a 70mm...
On March 22, 1946, 250 members of the Institute of Aeronautical Science toured the NACA’s Aircraft Engine Research...
Ribbons is a program developed at UAB used worldwide to graphically depict complicated protein structures in a...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) researcher John Carpenter inspects an aircraft model with a...
B-roll for media and public use. Above Santa Barbara County, scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are...