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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers begin to offload the next section of the...
Located on the arm of NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer uses alpha particles...
These two images illustrate just how far Cassini traveled to get to Saturn. On the left is one of the earliest...
NASA’s F/A-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle, also known as the “Silk Purse,” performs a thrust vectoring test in...
Outlined with gold stripes are the hinged nose strakes, modifications made to NASA's F-18 HARV (High Alpha Research...
During the final phase of tests with the HARV, Dryden technicians installed nose strakes, which were panels that...
Expedition 61 AMS Spacewalk Briefing - November 12, 2019 At the Johnson Space Center, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer...
The modified F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV) carries out air flow studies on a flight from the Dryden Flight...
Expedition 61 AMS Overview Briefing - November 12, 2019 EXPERTS BRIEF SPACE STATION ACTIVITY AND SCIENCE AHEAD OF...
The sensor head on the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer instrument was installed during testing at NASA Jet...
This NASA Voyager 2 image of the Uranian rings delta, gamma, eta, beta and alpha from top was taken Jan. 23, 1986.
A close up of NASA Sojourner as it placed its Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer APXS upon the surface of the rock...
NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found this image of a meteorite. The science team used two tools on...
Grad student Nicholas Boyd left and Principal Investigator Ralf Gellert, both of the University of Guelph, Ontario,...
This image shows the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer APXS on NASA Curiosity rover, with the Martian landscape in...
This 1997 image from NASA Mars Pathfinder shows a close up of Sojourner as it placed its Alpha Proton X-Ray...
NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found and examined this meteorite. The science team used two tools on...
ISS016-E-010001 (9 Nov. 2007) --- Astronaut Peggy A. Whitson, Expedition 16 commander, participates in a session of...
ISS016-E-009989 (9 Nov. 2007) --- Astronaut Peggy A. Whitson, Expedition 16 commander, participates in a session of...
ISS016-E-009981 (9 Nov. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's...
STS075-351-022 (22 Feb.- 9 March 1996) --- The space shuttle Columbia's vertical stabilizer appears to point to the...
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NASA and Firefly Aerospace engineers review the integration plan for the agency’s CubeSat R5 Spacecraft 4 (R5-S4) at...
A NASA engineer installs the agency’s CubeSat R5 Spacecraft 4 (R5-S4) into the dispenser at Firefly Aerospace's...