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The STS-52 insignia, designed by the mission’s crew members, features a large gold star to symbolize the crew's...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility's bay 1, workers prepare the orbiter boom sensor...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, the orbiter boom sensor system is lifted by a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, workers prepare to install the orbiter boom...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, the orbiter boom sensor system is lowered by a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, workers install the orbiter boom sensor system in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, space shuttle Discovery’s payload bay is readied...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 1, the orbiter boom sensor system is lifted by...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 1, the orbiter boom sensor system is lifted by...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, the orbiter boom sensor system is lifted by a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 1, workers are ready to secure the orbiter...
An attendee of the USA Science and Engineering Festival is measured by a laser at the NASA Stage. A NASA Staff...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, the orbiter boom sensor system is installed in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, workers prepare to install the orbiter boom...
NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE, arrived last month. Workers completed prelaunch testing and then...
This image shows the bare bones of the first prototype starshade by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena,...
Shown here is a prototype of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, ground receiver detector built by the...
Scientists from NASA's Space Geodesy Project discuss the techniques they use to precisely measure the Earth's...
Scientists from NASA's Space Geodesy Project discuss the techniques they use to precisely measure the Earth's...
ICESat-2 will measure heights or elevations. In order to derive sea ice thickness from those measurements, it will...
A spectrally resolved Rayleigh/Mie scattering diagnostic was developed to measure temperature and wingspan wise...
The red light from the Light Emitting Diode (LED) probe shines through the fingers of Dr. Harry Whelan, a pediatric...
This illustration shows NASA's Lunar Flashlight, with its four solar arrays deployed, shortly after launch. The...
NASA Lewis Research Center researcher, John S. Sarafini, uses a laser doppler velocimeter to analyze a Hamilton...