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NASA’s OSRIS-REx mission is designed to study near-Earth asteroid Bennu and return a sample of Bennu to Earth in...
NASA’s OSRIS-REx mission is designed to study near-Earth asteroid Bennu and return a sample of Bennu to Earth in...
This image taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Jan. 20, 2022, shows that the...
As the Sample Analysis at Mars SAM suite of instruments on NASA Curiosity Mars rover heats a sample, gases are...
This graphic maps locations of the first 14 sites where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover collected rock or soil samples...
Industry spends billions of dollars each year on machine tools to manufacture products out of metal. This includes...
Stardust Photo documentation of Stardust Sample Return and Tray Separation at bldg 31, Stardust laboratory at JSC....
OSIRIS-REx is a NASA mission to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu and return a sample to Earth. Prior to arriving at...
ISS019-E-017918 (19 May 2009) --- Astronaut Michael Barratt, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, collects a sample...
ISS026-E-029707 (25 Feb. 2011) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, Expedition 26 flight engineer, labels surface...
ISS040-E-060673 (14 July 2014) --- NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, Expedition 40 commander, works with test samples...
After a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back, the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed in the Utah...
This image shows two locations in Mars's Jezero Crater where NASA's Perseverance rover collected rock samples for...
A touch of history for our first asteroid sample return mission, a safe return from the International Space Station,...
S71-43052 (August 1971) --- A close-up view of a container full of green-colored lunar soil in the Non-Sterile...
S72-38463 (19 May 1972) --- In an isolated area of the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory,...
S73-15713 (January 1973) --- A close-up view of Apollo 17 lunar rock sample No. 76055 being studied and analyzed in...
STS081-E-05145 (13 Jan. 1997) --- Astronaut John M. Grunsfeld, mission specialist, works with a Passive Thermal...
iss050e057206 (3/14/2017) --- European Space Agency (ESA) Thomas Pesquet used the Microbial Monitoring System (MMS)...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center’s Convair F-106B Delta Dart equipped...
Biological Test Laboratory, Sample Operations Area, Lunar Receiving Laboratory, bldg 37, Manned Spacecraft Center,...
“How does NASA collect surface samples from the Moon? The answer may surprise you! Explore the challenges of...
This image shows testing under simulated Mars conditions on Earth in preparation for NASA Phoenix Mars Lander using...
This image shows a sample of Martian soil resting on a screen over the opening to one of the eight ovens of the...