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A prototype of Organic Processor Assembly (OPA) – technology capable of treating mixed organic wastes – arrives at...
Team members assemble the flight hardware for NASA’s Orbital Syngas Commodity Augmentation Reactor, or OSCAR, on...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s R5-S7 (Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project Spacecraft...
Team members Malay Shah, left, and Evan Bell assemble the flight hardware for NASA’s Orbital Syngas Commodity...
A close-up photo of the spin chute mounted on the rear fuselage of the AFTI F-16, a safety device designed to...
A team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida tests small- and medium-sized bucket drums July 16, 2021, in the...
Jaime Toro assembles the flight hardware for NASA’s Orbital Syngas Commodity Augmentation Reactor, or OSCAR, on Oct....
This wine barrel-size chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California is used to simulate the...
From left, team members Annie Meier, Malay Shah and Jamie Toro assemble the flight hardware for NASA’s Orbital...
From left, team members Malay Shah, Gino Carro and Evan Bell assemble the flight hardware for NASA’s Orbital Syngas...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s R5-S7 (Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project Spacecraft...
The X-38 prototype of the Crew Return Vehicle for the International Space Station drops away from its launch pylon...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA Kennedy Space Center Lead Engineer David Bush works on a prototype of a Cryogenic Refuge...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A 28-day-old Outredgeous red romaine lettuce plant grows in a prototype VEGGIE flight pillow....
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and Amy Ross, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, left,...
A team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida tests small- and medium-sized bucket drums July 16, 2021, in the...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s R5-S7 (Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project Spacecraft...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s R5-S7 (Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project Spacecraft...
The second free-flight test of an evolving series of X-38 prototypes took place July 10, 2001 when the X-38 was...
A team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida tests small- and medium-sized bucket drums July 16, 2021, in the...
Power Pads, shown here, were designed to support and cushion horses' hooves while walking, rurning, and jumping,...
A prototype of Organic Processor Assembly (OPA) – technology capable of treating mixed organic wastes – arrives at...
Prototypes of the crew transportation vehicle (CTV) for Artemis crewed missions are driven out to Launch Complex 39B...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s R5-S7 (Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project Spacecraft...