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Workers inside the launch tower at Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, watch as the third stage of a Boeing Delta...
Workers watch as the protective canister surrounding the Stardust spacecraft is removed at Launch Pad 17-A, Cape...
The protective canister is removed from around the Stardust spacecraft at Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air...
Scientists analyzing solar wind samples returned by the Genesis mission are getting a welcome boost to their...
Billows of exhaust roll across Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, as the Boeing Delta II rocket carrying...
Billows of exhaust fill Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, as the Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers check the mating of the spacecraft Stardust (above) with the...
Flames sear the pristine blue sky behind the Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Stardust spacecraft after the...
Into a pristine blue sky, the Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Stardust spacecraft leaves clouds of exhaust...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Stardust spacecraft waits to be encased in a protective canister...
In the early morning, the Stardust spacecraft, with the third stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket attached, arrives...
Workers at Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, connect the third stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket (above),...
At Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers check the mounting on a video camera on the second stage of...
At Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers watch as the protective canister is lifted from the Stardust...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, a canister (left) is moved toward the Stardust spacecraft (right). The...
At Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers finish mounting a video camera on the second stage of a...
S69-45002 (26 July 1969) --- A close-up view of the lunar rocks contained in the first Apollo 11 sample return...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with several of the 10 sample tubes it deposited at a sample depot it...
iss071e515505 (Aug. 20, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson displays a sample...
ISS018-E-034555 (20 Feb. 2009) --- Astronaut Sandra Magnus, Expedition 18 flight engineer, takes a moment for a...
A Memphis student working at the University of Alabama in Huntsville prepares samples for the first protein crystal...
iss071e486706 (Aug. 15, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson swaps out sample...
iss042e29609 (3/4/2015) --- Photographic documentation taken prior to collection of surface and air samples using...
Marshall graduate student researcher Juliana Neves, who is pursuing her doctorate in civil engineering at...