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STS043-04-038 (2-11 Aug 1991) --- Astronaut James C. Adamson, STS-43 mission specialist, checks on an experiment on...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), a highly modified F-18 jet...
The Interferometer Protein Crystal Growth (IPCG) experiment was designed to measure details of how protein molecules...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is made available to media for viewing inside a cleanroom at the Astrotech Space Operations...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is made available to media for viewing inside a cleanroom at the Astrotech Space Operations...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is made available to media for viewing inside a cleanroom at the Astrotech Space Operations...
NASA hosted media for a final visit NASA's Psyche spacecraft inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is made available to media for viewing inside a cleanroom at the Astrotech Space Operations...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is made available to media for viewing inside a cleanroom at the Astrotech Space Operations...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is made available to media for viewing inside a cleanroom at the Astrotech Space Operations...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is made available to media for viewing inside a cleanroom at the Astrotech Space Operations...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is made available to media for viewing inside a cleanroom at the Astrotech Space Operations...
Teams transport NASA's encapsulated Psyche spacecraft from Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency's...
Members of NASA’s Psyche team are photographed with the spacecraft by media inside a cleanroom the Astrotech Space...
Psyche Project Manager Henry Stone, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is photographed with the spacecraft by...
Opto-Mechanical Engineer Tyler Evans illustrates how the laser is transmitted from the ATLAS instrument on the...
More than thirty years since their accidental discovery, gamma-ray bursts are still a mystery to scientists. These...
Opto-Mechanical Engineer Tyler Evans explains how the photons that bounce back from Earth are received and filtered...
Deputy Systems Engineer Phil Luers explains how the ATLAS transmitter and receiver subsystems come together to...
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) at NASA Jet Propulsion...
This infrared photograph shows the uplink laser beacon for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)...
Hubble uses three Fine Guidance Sensors for steady pointing and measurement. Astronauts will exchange one of these...
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Optical Bench is suspended from the crane in the Spacecraft...
An epoxy is applied to adhere the fiber optic sensor installation on the Mock Truss-Braced Wing 10-foot model at...