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jsc2023e055877 (3/31/2022) --- The Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) Optical Mechanical Assembly in a clean room at...
Engineers and technicians from the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) use a crane to lift the Optical...
iss068e040003 (Jan. 11, 2023) --- Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin configures...
The Webb Telescope is full of precise optical components, some of which include lenses made out of salt. Why? Find...
art001e000530 (Nov. 24, 2022)—On flight day 9, NASA’s Orion spacecraft captured imagery of the Moon with its optical...
Jeri Briscoe of the video team inspects the optical system for proper alignment during a test run of the Equiaxed...
ISS042E017804 (11/28/2014) --- US Astronaut Terry Virts works to rotate out the Optics Bench during Combustion...
Expedition 11 Training with Krikalev/Henderson as their continued their training in the Virtual Reality Laboratory...
Engineers and technicians from the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) integrate the Optical Bench and...
Hubble uses three Fine Guidance Sensors for steady pointing and measurement. Astronauts will exchange one of these...
Hubble uses three Fine Guidance Sensors for steady pointing and measurement. Astronauts will exchange one of these...
Hubble uses three Fine Guidance Sensors for steady pointing and measurement. Astronauts will exchange one of these...
jsc2021e012558 (12/2021) --- NASA astronaut Shannon Walker, handling the fiber produced by the second iteration of...
art001e000528 (Nov. 24, 2022)—On flight day 9, NASA’s Orion spacecraft captured imagery of the Moon with its optical...
In the Image Analysis Facility in the Vehicle Assembly Building, Armando Oliu (second from right), lead of the KSC...
STS042-05-006 (22-30 Jan 1992) --- Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, payload commander, performs the Fluids Experiment...
This new composite image of stellar cluster NGC 1333 combines X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink);...
jsc2022e042615 (1/16/2022) --- The EMIT instrument after completion of all pre-launch environmental testing. The...
ISS030-E-234735 (10 April 2012) --- NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, works on the Combustion...
Mechanical integration team members pose with the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) after successful integration of the...
Chandra X-Ray Observatory provided this composite X-ray (blue and green) and optical (red) image of the active...
ISS038-E-009253 (26 Nov. 2013) --- In the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory, NASA astronaut Michael...
ISS038-E-009255 (26 Nov. 2013) --- In the International Space Station?s Destiny laboratory, NASA astronaut Michael...
In the Image Analysis Facility in the Vehicle Assembly Building, Armando Oliu (second from left), lead of the KSC...