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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Louis MacDowell (right), Testbed manager, explains to Center Director Jim Kennedy the use of astmospheric calibration specimens. Placed at various locations, they can rank the corrosivity of the given environment. The KSC Beach Corrosion Test Site was established in the 1960s and has provided more than 30 years of historical information on the long-term performance of many materials in use at KSC and other locations around the world. Located 100 feet from the Atlantic Ocean approximately 1 mile south of the Space Shuttle launch sites, the test facility includes an atmospheric exposure site, a flowing seawater exposure site, and an on-site electrochemistry laboratory and monitoring station. The beach laboratory is used to conduct real-time corrosion experiments and provides for the remote monitoring of surrounding weather conditions. The newly added flowing seawater immersion facility provides for the immersion testing of materials and devices under controlled conditions.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Louis MacDowell (right), Testbed manager, explains to Center Director Jim Kennedy the...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Dr. Paul Hintze (left) explains to Center Director Jim Kennedy a project he is working at the KSC Beach Corrosion Test Site. Hitze is doing post-graduate work for the National Research Council. The test facility site was established in the 1960s and has provided more than 30 years of historical information on the long-term performance of many materials in use at KSC and other locations around the world. Located 100 feet from the Atlantic Ocean approximately 1 mile south of the Space Shuttle launch sites, the test facility includes an atmospheric exposure site, a flowing seawater exposure site, and an on-site electrochemistry laboratory and monitoring station. The beach laboratory is used to conduct real-time corrosion experiments and provides for the remote monitoring of surrounding weather conditions. The newly added flowing seawater immersion facility provides for the immersion testing of materials and devices under controlled conditions.

New NASA Model Finds Landslide Threats in Near Real-Time During Heavy Rains

A new model has been developed to look at how potential landslide activity is changing around the world. A global...

IN SITU

iss052e058893 (8/18/2017) --- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli collects and processes saliva...

Skylab

This 1973 chart details Skylab's Ultraviolet (UV) Spectrograph, an Apollo Telescope Mount instrument. Its telescope,...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A model capsule falls during tests inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy...

ISVV-1 Artemis Emergency Egress Demonstration

Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida practice the Artemis mission emergency escape or egress procedures...

ISVV-1 Artemis Emergency Egress Demonstration

Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida practice the Artemis mission emergency escape or egress procedures...

ISVV-1 Artemis Emergency Egress Demonstration

Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida practice the Artemis mission emergency escape or egress procedures...

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Gaseous oxygen vents away from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket standing at Space Launch Complex 40 at Florida’s Cape...

DSCOVR Satellite Deploy & Light Test

Workers conduct a light test on the solar arrays on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, in...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - During a break at the 2004 Florida Regional FIRST competition, held at the University...

Countdown Demonstration & Cryogenic Loading

Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, right, Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) launch director, reviews procedures during a...

One Small Flare

The sun's only visible active region sputtered and spurted and eventually unleashed a small (C-class) flare (Feb. 7,...

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For the first time, researchers can use NASA's 'super magnifying glass' to study laboratory specimens thousands of...

DSCOVR Spacecraft Arrival, Offload, & Unpacking

NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, has been uncovered and is ready for processing in the...

DSCOVR Spacecraft Arrival, Offload, & Unpacking

Workers remove the plastic cover from NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, in the high bay...

Destination Mars Grand Opening

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, left and Erisa Hines of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena,...

DSCOVR Satellite Deploy & Light Test

Workers deploy the solar arrays on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, in the Building 1...

ISVV-1 Artemis Emergency Egress Demonstration

Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida practice the Artemis mission emergency escape or egress procedures...

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Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, is...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Brevard County sixth-graders participate in the eighth annual Space Week at the Kennedy...

Christmas stockings hanging in the Node 1 hatch

ISS034-E-010298 (25 Dec. 2012) --- Stockings were obviously hung with care on Christmas Day aboard the International...

Countdown Demonstration & Cryogenic Loading

Engineers with Exploration Ground Systems monitor their consoles during a countdown demonstration event of cryogenic...