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art001e002596 (Dec. 5, 2022): The optical navigation camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured these views of...
Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...
art001e002595 (Dec. 5, 2022): The optical navigation camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured these views of...
art001e002058 (Dec. 4, 2022) On flight day 19, Orion’s optical navigation camera captured this image of the full...
art001e000274 Nov. 21, 2022 -- On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, Orion's optical navigation camera was...
Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...
iss049e002308 (9/13/2016) --- A view taken during Selectable Optics Diagnostic Instrument (SODI) DSC Hardware Setup...
art001e003051 (Dec. 10, 2022) On flight day 25 of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, Orion’s optical navigation camera...
The optical bench for the Fluids Integrated Rack section of the Fluids and Combustion Facility (FCF) is shown...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Viewed here is part of the tracking telescope that provides optical support for...
A close-up view of one of the parts of the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission inside the Neil...
STS039-20-006 (28 April-6 May 1991) --- Astronaut Michael L. Coats, STS-39 mission commander, works controls of a...
Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...
art001e002594 (Dec. 5, 2022): The optical navigation camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured these views of...
jsc2021e029984 (3/18/20210 --- A preflight view of the Lumina imvestigation. Fiber-optic Active Dosimeter (Lumina)...
art001e002602 (Dec. 5, 2022): The optical navigation camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured these views of...
In the Image Analysis Facility in the Vehicle Assembly Building, Brad Lawrence (second from left, standing)...
Inside the dome building at Playalinda Beach, Bob Fore points to a map of camera sites during a presentation to the...
art001e002593 (Dec. 5, 2022): The optical navigation camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured these views of...
art001e002655 (Dec. 5, 2022): The optical navigation camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured these views of...
On flight day six of the Artemis I mission, Orion used its optical navigation camera to snap this black-and-white...
art001e002599 (Dec. 5, 2022): The optical navigation camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured these views of...
art001e002057 (Dec. 4, 2022) On flight day 19, Orion’s optical navigation camera captured this image of the full...
Inside the dome building at Playalinda Beach, Mike Litscher talks to media about the Distant Object Attitude...