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NASA, Department of Defense personnel from Detachment 3 out of Patrick Air Force Base, and the Mobile Diving Salvage...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Project Morpheus prototype lander is enveloped in a cloud of dust as it takes off on...
In a field campaign called MOST (Marine Oil Spill Thickness), NASA and NOAA are testing radar technology to measure...
The Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) was designed and developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center and served as the...
jsc2024e076628 – Tess Caswell, a crew stand-in for the Artemis III Virtual Reality Mini-Simulation, executes a...
Inside the Spectrum prototype unit, organisms in a Petri plate are exposed to different colors of lighting. The...
NEW YORK – Technicians detach space shuttle Enterprise from the top of NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft. The work...
Performance Acceptance Test of a prototype-model NEXT (NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster) ion engine that was...
Kennedy Space Center Associate Director Kelvin Manning addresses about 40 Brevard County high school seniors...
JSC2010-E-090923 (15 March 2010) --- One of Robonaut 2?s arms is disassembled to prepare the robot for electronics...
jsc2021e063288 (12/10/2021) --- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer demonstrates the Bioprint...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Project Morpheus prototype lander is enveloped in a cloud of dust as it takes off on...
NEW YORK – Cranes and other equipment wait as NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft and space shuttle Enterprise are moved...
NASA’s Project Morpheus prototype lander is moved into position at the north end of the Shuttle Landing Facility at...
NASA’s Project Morpheus prototype lander is enveloped in a cloud of dust as it takes off on free flight test No. 15...
jsc2023e054754 (6/23/2021) --- A preflight view of the Food Processor Instrument and consumables including the drill...
NASA, Department of Defense personnel from Detachment 3 out of Patrick Air Force Base, and the Mobile Diving Salvage...
Marshall Space Flight Center engineers helped North American Marine Jet (NAMJ), Inc. improve the proposed design of...
A ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) is seen Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at...
NASA, Department of Defense personnel from Detachment 3 out of Patrick Air Force Base, and the Mobile Diving Salvage...
ISS028-E-019437 (29 July 2011) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev, Expedition 28 flight engineer, works...
ISS028-E-020928 (3 Aug. 2011) --- Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev (out of frame), both...
NEW YORK – A metal sling designed for lifting a space shuttle is positioned over space shuttle Enterprise and NASA's...
ISS028-E-020962 (3 Aug. 2011) --- Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev, both Expedition 28...