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Kepler activities at Smithsonian Institution; Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Mt Hopkins AZ for Kepler input...
Jim Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, discusses NASA’s Mars missions with visitors during the...
Visitors explore Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum’s Mars Day, an annual event celebrating the...
Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum Senior Curator in the Division of Space History Dr. Roger...
Visitors operate robotic arms at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum Mars Day, an annual...
Jim Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, discusses NASA’s Mars missions with visitors during the...
Visitors view a piece of Mars at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum Mars Day, an annual...
S89-48714 (18 Oct 1989) --- This photograph was taken by the STS-34 crew aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis and shows...
From left to right, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Webb Deputy Observatory Project Scientist, Erin Smith, NASA’s...
From left to right, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Webb Deputy Observatory Project Scientist, Erin Smith, NASA’s...
From left to right, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Webb Optical Telescope Element Manager, Lee Feinberg, NASA...
From left to right, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Webb Deputy Observatory Project Scientist, Erin Smith, NASA’s...
Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), is seen as it takes off for New...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, United Space Alliance employee Harrell Watts...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, United Space Alliance employee Dave Sanborn (left)...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, United Space Alliance employee Dave Sanborn...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, United Space Alliance employee Mike Cote works on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, United Space Alliance employee Harrell Watts...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, United Space Alliance employee Mike Cote installs...
NASA and The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory discuss the first space-based instrument to observe major air...
Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Lower Drag, or Prandtl-D1, will be displayed in an upcoming Innovations...
Kepler News Briefing, held in the Syvertson auditorium at the NASA Ames Research Center. The briefing presented...
Mike Seibert, rover driver for NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars talks with visitors about navigating the surface of...
Robert H. Goddard with vacuum tube apparatus he built in 1916 to research rocket efficiency. Dr. Robert Hutchings...