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Anthony piazza, a researcher at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research center in Edwards, California, works with...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A film camera is set in place on a newly installed five-meter focal length telescope in...
The High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) instrument head, which houses the lidar instrument, is installed onto the...
This image is of the Crab Nebula in visible light photographed by the Hale Observatory optical telescope in 1959....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The focus barrel is installed on a newly installed five-meter focal length telescope in...
iss053e130267 (Oct. 24, 2017) --- The Kestrel Eye IIM (KE2M) CubeSat is deployed from the tip of the Dextre attached...
jsc2025e067423 (8/5/20250 --- Germicidal UV light is emitted by an optical fiber running through the center of an...
The 29th SpaceX commercial resupply services (CRS) mission for NASA carries scientific experiments and technology...
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center’s FOSS, Fiber Optic Sensing System, recently supported tests of a system...
STS106-375-022 (17 September 2000) --- This view of the International Space Station (ISS) was captured with a 35mm...
An optical illusion places Lady Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, under an external tank in...
iss053e130267 (Oct. 24, 2017) --- The Kestrel Eye IIM (KE2M) CubeSat is pictured shortly after it was deployed from...
iss065e045357 (May 12, 2021) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei peers into...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A worker calibrates the thermolite level on a newly installed five-meter focal length...
iss064e024075 (Jan. 18, 2021) --- The International Space Station was orbiting 264 miles above the North Atlantic...
Technician Kyle Guzek installs a connector on the Laser Optical Module for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna...
jsc2026e034352 (April 28, 2026) --- STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s...
jsc2026e034353 (April 28, 2026) --- STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s...
This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Dust particles are readied for an experiment for the Electrodynamic Dust Shield for Dust...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Patrick Air Force Base in Cocoa Beach, Fla., the WB-57F aircraft takes off on a test...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Patrick Air Force Base in Cocoa Beach, Fla., the WB-57F aircraft taxis on the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA aerospace engineer Brian Barnett suits up before a test flight of the WB-57F...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...