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Microgravity enables study of the physics of the universe through a completely new lens. International Space Station...
Principal investigator, Dr. Janine Captain, demonstrates the effects of moving a magnet against metal in the Applied...
Still photographs taken over 16 hours on Nov. 13, 2001, on the International Space Station have been condensed into...
A short video about the Cloud Physics Lidar instrument onboard the HS3 Global Hawk aircraft.
Dr. Mark Nurge, a physicist in the Applied Physics Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center adjusted cables on an...
S64-14883 (1962) --- Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, participates in a strict...
Colored oil flow toy was part of a student-designed apparatus used in the second Dropping in a Microgravity...
Shown here, the "physics package" inside NASA's Cold Atom Lab, where ultracold clouds of atoms called Bose-Einstein...
Clues to the formation of planets and planetary rings -- like Saturn's dazzling ring system -- may be found by...
This image depicts the formation of multiple whirlpools in a sodium gas cloud. Scientists who cooled the cloud and...
New light has been shed on the invisible forces shaping our near-Earth environment, unveiling a fundamental physical...
Principal investigator, Dr. Janine Captain, attaches a mass spectrometer sensor to electronics inside a vacuum...
Nurse performs tonometry examination, which measure the tension of the eyeball, during an employee's arnual physical...
Dr. Julie Robinson, Chief Scientist for the International Space Station (ISS) and Dr. Matthew Lynch, Procter &...
ISS030-E-142785 (15 March 2012) --- European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, Expedition 30 flight engineer,...
ISS030-E-142784 (15 March 2012) --- European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, Expedition 30 flight engineer,...
Dr. Fran Chiaramonte, Program Scientist for Physical Sciences talks about the Light Microscopy Module (LMM) onboard...
Onboard Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-73) Payload Commander Kathryn Thornton works with the Drop Physics Module (DPM)...
Dr. Michael Wargo, program scientist for materials science at NASA headquarters, explains the math and physics...
A short video profile about research physical scientist Dalia Kirschbaum, who focuses on landslide modeling as well...
iss069e008883 (May 5, 2023) --- UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Sultan...
iss067e253397 (Dec. 2, 2024) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Expedition 67 Flight Engineer Samantha...
Students in the My Brother’s Keeper program watch as Jose Nunez of NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Exploration Research...
Students in the My Brother’s Keeper program listen as Jose Nunez of NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Exploration Research...