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Chemists Misle Tessema (left) and Macy Mullen (right) discuss scanning electron microscope operations inside NASA...
The drone follows an autonomously defined path around the modified C-141 Kuiper Airborne Observatory, (KAO)...
iss073e0505925 (Aug. 15, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Zena Cardman operates the...
The drone follows an autonomously defined path around the modified C-141 Kuiper Airborne Observatory, (KAO)...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, United Space Alliance workers Ross Neubarth and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, Ken Tauer (left) and Paul Ogletree, with United...
The drone follows an autonomously defined path around the modified C-141 Kuiper Airborne Observatory, (KAO)...
S123-E-008424 (23 March 2008) --- Astronaut Mike Foreman, STS-123 mission specialist, helps to tie down the Orbiter...
The drone follows an autonomously defined path around the modified C-141 Kuiper Airborne Observatory, (KAO)...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the SPACEHAB module at SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral, Fla., Payload Commander Michael...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing Facility, bay 3, Don Neilen (front),...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey...
Teams at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans lift the 130-foot-tall liquid hydrogen tank off the...
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, and NASA Executive Officer to the Deputy Administrator Garvey McIntosh...
iss073e0098595 (May 27, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Anne McClain shows off a pair of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral, Fla., members of the STS-107 crew look over equipment....
By providing a set of base measurements that were taken on Earth, this calibration target will help fine-tune the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing Facility, bay 3, Don Nielen...
Pictured is a model to study the ice collection on struts in jet engines during flight. Researchers inspect the ice...
iss048e045079 (07/27/2016) --- Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi performs eye scans inside of the U.S. Destiny...
How do you measure a cloud? Tim Bencic does it with lasers. The NASA Glenn engineer invented a tomography system for...
iss068e042987 (Jan. 26, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin and Anna Kikina, both from...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing Facility, bay 3, NDE Specialist Jim...
jsc2022e091370 (12/7/2022) --- The Space Test Program - Houston 9 - Experiment for Characterizing the Lower...