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Beverly Kemmerer and Austin Adkins, right, and Austin Langton, perform testing with a Millimeter Wave Doppler Radar...
A lightweight simulator version of NASA's Resource Prospector undergoes a mobility test in a regolith bin at the...
NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik (far left) and Jessica Watkins (center) visit the Granular Mechanics and Regolith...
S68-51304 (December 1968) --- North American Rockwell artist's concept illustrating a phase of the scheduled Apollo...
Instruments for NASA’s Mars Spectrometer observing lunar operations (MSolo) are in view at left in the high bay of...
A lightweight simulator version of NASA's Resource Prospector undergoes a mobility test in a regolith bin at the...
Members of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer team pose with the spacecraft at SpaceX's payload processing facility at NASA's...
The airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance (air-LUSI) instrument is moved across the hangar floor by robotic engineer...
The ER-2 ground crew Wissam Habbal, left, and Dr. Kevin Turpie, airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance (air-LUSI)...
AS-204, the fourth Saturn IB launch vehicle, developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), awaits its...
Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and P.I. at NASA Ames Research Center - close up of Total...
Instruments for NASA’s Mars Spectrometer observing lunar operations (MSolo) are in view at left in the high bay of...
A lightweight simulator version of NASA's Resource Prospector undergoes a mobility test in a regolith bin at the...
The Blue Ghost lander, part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, lifts off atop a SpaceX...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers check out the...
STS067-371-028 (2-18 March 1995) --- This 35mm lunar-illuminated scene of the Astro-2 payload in the Space Shuttle...
Beverly Kemmerer and Austin Adkins perform testing with a Millimeter Wave Doppler Radar at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and P.I. at NASA Ames Research Center - Total Luminance...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft's vantage...
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in lunar orbit about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the...
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft sits in a clean room in August 2024 after undergoing environmental testing at...
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in March 2024, engineers and technicians...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 astronaut James McDivitt speaks to guests gathered for the Astronaut...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Apollo astronauts, from the left, David Scott, James McDivitt, Thomas Stafford, Buzz Aldrin,...