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Dr. Donald Frazier works with a laser imaging system designed by Dr. Hossin Abdeldayem for pattern recognition...
Two sets of laser pulses transmitted from Earth to a spacecraft over a distance of 1.4 million kilometers 870,000...
STS121-319-004 (5 July 2006) --- The Laser Dynamic Range Imager (LDRI), Intensified Television Camera (ITVC) and...
This image taken by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbite on May 19, 2010, shows an impact crater that had not existed...
STS121-323-011 (8 July 2006) --- Astronauts Piers J. Sellers and Michael E. Fossum, STS-121 mission specialists,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility's bay 1, workers prepare the orbiter boom sensor...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, the orbiter boom sensor system is lifted by a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, workers prepare to install the orbiter boom...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, the orbiter boom sensor system is lowered by a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, workers install the orbiter boom sensor system in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, space shuttle Discovery’s payload bay is readied...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 1, the orbiter boom sensor system is lifted by...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 1, the orbiter boom sensor system is lifted by...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, the orbiter boom sensor system is lifted by a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 1, workers are ready to secure the orbiter...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, the orbiter boom sensor system is installed in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, workers prepare to install the orbiter boom...
STS042-05-006 (22-30 Jan 1992) --- Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, payload commander, performs the Fluids Experiment...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 1, workers watch closely as the orbiter boom...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 1, workers watch closely as the orbiter boom...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, the orbiter boom sensor system is moved into...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, workers attach a crane to the orbiter boom sensor...
In today's image, Mercury's horizon cuts a striking edge against the stark blackness of space. On the right,...
This simulated image shows how a cloud of glitter in geostationary orbit would be illuminated and controlled by two...