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Preparing for a more powerful space station, building a more fuel-efficient aircraft, and a way to possibly predict...
Researchers prepare for a test of the Chemistry and Camera ChemCam instrument that will fly on NASA Mars Science...
Technicians prepare NASA Juno spacecraft for a functional test of its main engine cover.
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility prepare the heat shield that will be attached to the backshell,...
Solar scientists Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy, Nelson Reginal, Eric Christian, and Sarah Jaeggli discuss the 2016 eclipse...
Natasha Cloud, a professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the WNBA, and Nayi Castro, a mission...
Orbital Sciences team members move the second half of the payload fairing before it is placed over NASA's IRIS...
Engineers and technicians manually deployed the secondary mirror support structure (SMSS) of the James Webb Space...
ISS040-E-013827 (17 June 2014) --- This is the Orlan spacesuit of Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, Expedition...
ISS040-E-013826 (17 June 2014) --- This is the Orlan spacesuit of Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, Expedition...
Rover engineers prepare a mixture of sandy and powdery materials to simulate some difficult Mars driving conditions...
Mike Seibert and Sharon Laubach, engineers on NASA Mars Exploration Rover team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,...
In advance of a testing flight at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, members of the test team prepare the...
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 61 Soyuz Commander Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, NASA Flight...
NASA's Mars InSight lander recently moved its robotic arm closer to the heat probe's digging device, called the...
Beginning April 2021, the window opens for the first flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. It will be...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Discovery moves along the crawlerway from the Vehicle Assembly Building...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Discovery, atop a mobile launch platform, moves through the doors of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Discovery begins moving through the doors of the Vehicle Assembly...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers monitor the progress of Space Shuttle Discovery as it moves through the doors...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Discovery Flow Director Stephanie Stilson poses with the orbiter in the...
A planetary protection engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepares samples for analysis on March 20, 2024....
Members of NASA's Mars Helicopter team prepare the flight model (vehicle going to Mars) for a test in the Space...
This image taken March 25, 2010 shows preparations for radar testing for NASA Mars Science Laboratory. This day work...