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A group picture of Douglas Airplanes, taken for a photographic promotion in 1954, at what is now known as the Dryden...
NEW YORK – Cranes and other equipment wait as NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft and space shuttle Enterprise are moved...
Martha Williams, who leads the team inventing the Flexible Damage Detection System, stands in a laboratory with a...
NEW YORK – Technicians attach the metal sling to the side of space shuttle Enterprise so it can be removed from the...
NEW YORK – Technicians lift the metal sling from space shuttle Enterprise after its removal from the top of NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Project Morpheus prototype lander is moved into position at the north end of the...
NEW YORK – Cranes and other equipment wait as NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft and space shuttle Enterprise are moved...
The complete prototype Flexible Damage Detection System stands in a laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
A test unit, or prototype, of NASA's Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) was delivered to the Space Station Processing...
NEW YORK – Technicians ready the metal sling that will be used to lift space shuttle Enterprise from the top of...
About 40 Brevard County high school seniors attended Brevard Top Scholars Day at Kennedy Space Center on May 5....
About 40 Brevard County high school seniors attended Brevard Top Scholars Day at Kennedy Space Center on May 5....
The prototype Flexible Damage Detection System stands in a laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The...
Jared Sass, NASA engineer, monitors a test inside the Cryogenics Test Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...
ISS028-E-020969 (3 Aug. 2011) --- Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev (out of frame), both...
Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new...
The X-38 prototypes are intended to perfect a "crew lifeboat" for the International Space Station. The X-38 vehicle...
ISS028-E-020778 (3 Aug. 2011) --- Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev (out of frame), both...
Inside the Spectrum prototype unit, organisms in a Petri plate are exposed to blue excitation lighting. The device...
The Helios Prototype is an enlarged version of the Centurion flying wing, which flew a series of test flights at...
Several Goddard technologists are involved in a new CubeSat technology-demonstration mission called SNoOPI, which...
Visiting scientist Cheryl Frazier monitors a prototype composting machine in Hangar L at the Cape Canaveral Air...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers learn how new technologies enable future...
NASA engineer Wayne Peterson from the Johnson Space Center reviews postflight checklists following a spectacular...