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The Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-52) thunders off Launch Pad 39B, embarking on a 10-day flight and carrying a crew of...
STS121-319-004 (5 July 2006) --- The Laser Dynamic Range Imager (LDRI), Intensified Television Camera (ITVC) and...
STS121-323-011 (8 July 2006) --- Astronauts Piers J. Sellers and Michael E. Fossum, STS-121 mission specialists,...
Mark Nurge, a physicist in Kennedy Space Center’s Applied Physics Lab, stands near a laser interferometer, which is...
The 9x15 low speed tunnel tests take off and landing of aircraft. The laser velocimetry system for flow measurement...
S123-E-008424 (23 March 2008) --- Astronaut Mike Foreman, STS-123 mission specialist, helps to tie down the Orbiter...
GEDI is a full-waveform lidar instrument that makes detailed measurements of the 3D structure of the Earth’s...
The Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-52) thunders off Launch Pad 39B, embarking on a 10-day flight and carrying a crew of...
Mark Nurge, a physicist in Kennedy Space Center’s Applied Physics Lab, stands near a laser interferometer, which is...
Mark Nurge, a physicist in Kennedy Space Center’s Applied Physics Lab, stands near a laser interferometer, which is...
Megan MacDonald, left, leads NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Victor J. Glover, right, on a tour of the Laser...
As NASA begins planning to send humans to explore other locations throughout the solar system, Goddard Space Flight...
Inside Building 836 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the first half of the payload fairing for the United...
jsc2024e065172 (10/3/2024) --- A temperature map is seen within a microgel suspension illuminated by the Colloidal...
The United Launch Alliance Delta II second stage arrived at NASA's Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
Both halves of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket payload fairing were moved inside ULA's Building...
Inside NASA's Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the United Launch Alliance Delta II second...
Inside Building 836 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the first half of the payload fairing for the United...
Inside Building 836 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, both halves of the payload fairing for the United...
The United Launch Alliance Delta II second stage arrived at NASA's Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
The United Launch Alliance Delta II second stage arrived at NASA's Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
Inside Building 836 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, one of the payload fairing halves for the United...
Inside NASA's Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the United Launch Alliance Delta II second...
Inside Building 836 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, one of the payload fairing halves for the United...