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NASA's F-15B Research Testbed aircraft recently flew in the supersonic shock wave of a U.S. Navy F-5E in support of...
NASA's F-15B Research Testbed aircraft recently flew in the supersonic shock wave of a U.S. Navy F-5E in support of...
NASA's three Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the SpitzerSpace Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray...
NACA Photographer/Graphic Supersonic Research: Schlieren photograph of the flow around airplane models showing...
Scientists have discovered that water is being released from the Moon during meteor showers. When a speck of comet...
Composite image of Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) data (contour) with a cut-out images of the T-38’s during a...
Composite image of Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) data (contour) with a cut-out images of the T-38’s during a...
Composite image of Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) data (contour) with a cut-out images of the T-38’s during a...
Composite image of Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) data (contour) with a cut-out images of the T-38’s during a...
Composite image of Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) data (contour) with a cut-out images of the T-38’s during a...
Composite image of Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) data (contour) with a cut-out images of the T-38’s during a...
This image is a color composite of the supernova remnant E0102-72: x-ray (blue), optical (green), and radio (red)....
A composite image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4258 showing X-ray emission observed with NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory...
NASA’s F-15D research aircraft conducts a test flight near Edwards, California, with a newly installed near-field...
In-flight photo of the NASA F-15B used in tests of the X-33 Thermal Protection System (TPS) materials. Flying at...
NASA’s F-15D research aircraft conducts a test flight near Edwards, California, with a newly installed near-field...
Two NASA F-15 aircraft sit on the ramp at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, in Edwards, California, ahead of...
Shadowgraph of Finned Hemispherical model in free-flight show shock waves produced by blunt bodies (H. Julian Allen...
This VIS image shows a double impact - two meteors hitting simultaneously. The two meteors would have started as a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --Racing into the night sky atop columns of fire, space shuttle Endeavour on mission...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Endeavour roars into the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Towers of flame propel space shuttle Endeavour into the dark sky past the lightning...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Endeavour roars into the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The blue Florida sky helps silhouette space shuttle Atlantis as it hurtles into space...