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ISS035-E-020086 (15 April 2013) --- NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Expedition 35 flight engineer, conducts routine...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- As the sun was rising over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an early morning rain...
art002e000180 (April 1, 2026) - This black and white image of Earth was captured by the optical navigation sensor on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The fixture is set up for collimation on the newly installed five-meter focal length...
iss065e033969 (May 12, 2021) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Shane Kimbrough sets up...
jsc2025e067422 97/9/2025) --- Agar plates for the GULBI investigation. This research uses special optical fibers to...
The X-37 advanced technology demonstrator flaperon unit was one of the first ever thermal and mechanical...
NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN LISTENS AS BALL AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION PRINCIPLE OPTICAL ENGINEER DAVE...
iss053e238919 (Nov. 21, 2017) --- Cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin (foreground) and Sergey Ryazanskiy participate in a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- As the sun was rising over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an early morning rain...
art001e003069 (Dec. 11, 2022) On the day of its return to Earth, Orion’s optical navigation camera captured this...
Engineering technician Jeff Howell removes tape from the Mock Truss-Braced Wing 10-foot model at NASA’s Armstrong...
Seen from inside the dome, a new five-meter telescope is lowered into place. The tracking telescope is part of the...
ISS070E110532 - NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara poses in front of the Destiny laboratory’s Microgravity Science Glovebox...
An optical illusion places Lady Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, under an external tank in...
Anthony piazza, a researcher at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research center in Edwards, California, works with...
STS-61 astronauts practice installing the corrective optics module on a Hubble Space Telescope mockup in Marshall...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This storyboard shows a diagram of the telescope design and photos for a new five-meter...
art001e003070 (Dec. 11, 2022) On the day of its return to Earth, Orion’s optical navigation camera captured this...
STS105-707-055 (20 August 2001) --- This view of the International Space Station (ISS) was captured with a 70mm...
NASA's DC-8 in flight for the NASA Student Airborne Research Project (SARP) to measure aerosols with the Langley...
Steven Grantham (NIST) and John Woodward (NIST) contemplate cable management for air-LUSI’s Irradiance Instrument...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The thermolite level is in place on a newly installed five-meter focal length telescope...
iss056e130654 (Aug. 10, 2018) --- The Combustion Integration Rack (CIR), pictured in its open configuration, is...