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iss065e431756 (Oct. 2, 2021) --- Expedition 65 Commander Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) collects...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, workers prepare to lift the tile box from the...
S69-60294 (26 Nov. 1969) --- One of the first views of the Apollo 12 lunar rocks is this photograph of the open...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, workers ensure the tile box is secured onto a...
The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover's astrobiology mission will search for signs of ancient microbial life. It will...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, workers oversee the lifting of the tile box...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, the tile box is lowered onto a stand. The box...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, workers prepare to lift the tile box from the...
A technology demonstration instrument aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has operated on the Moon as...
A technology demonstration flying aboard the next delivery for NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services)...
A technology demonstration flying aboard the next delivery for NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services)...
A technology demonstration flying aboard the next delivery for NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services)...
A technology demonstration flying aboard the next delivery for NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services)...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a sample cored from a rock called "Bunsen Peak" on March 12,...
This Mastcam-Z image shows Perseverance's drill with no cored-rock sample evident in the sample tube. The image was...
This image shows a core, about 2.8 inches (71.1 millimeters) in length, collected from a basaltic rock during a test...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Technicians at the Space Station Processing Facility lower a Thermal Protection System...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Technicians at the Space Station Processing Facility prepare to lift and move a Thermal...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers at left check instruments during a lighting test on the solar...
Generic: 14318. Mission: Apollo 14. Station: H. Landmark: NORTH BOULDER FIELD. BagNumber: Bag 1038. OriginalWeight:...
Gaseous Nitrogen Dewar apparatus developed by Dr. Alex McPherson of the University of California, Irvine for use...
Perseverance's Sampling and Caching System Camera, or CacheCam, captured this time-lapse series of images of the...
Shown here is an annotated representation of the 13 sample tubes containing rock-core samples that are being carried...
ISS020-E-014193 (FOR RELEASE 21 JULY 2009) --- A moon rock brought to Earth by Apollo 11, humans? first landing on...