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Researchers examine the Space Plasma-High Voltage Interaction Experiment (SPHINX) satellite in the Electric...
KSC-2012-6320 – CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Stephen Anthony works with an experimental reactor as part of the...
S82-26315 (4 Feb. 1982) --- This is the insignia for NASA's third flight (STS-3) of the Space Transportation...
This photograph shows the U.S. Laboratory Module (also called Destiny) for the International Space Station (ISS), in...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) pilot Cliff Crabbs and the flight operations crew prepare a...
NASA's hypersonic X-43A scramjet, short for supersonic combustion ramjet, makes a historic test flight this week....
NASA research pilot John A. Manke is seen here in front of the M2-F3 Lifting Body. Manke was hired by NASA on May...
The NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) Shields-1 CubeSat will demonstrate a research payload with materials...
This vehicle served as a mobile terminal for the Communications Technology Satellite. The Communications Technology...
A new, world-class laboratory for research into future space transportation technologies is under construction at...
The X-57 Maxwell, NASA’s first all-electric experimental aircraft, or X-plane – and the agency’s first crewed...
STS109-315-005 (8 March 2002) --- Barely visible within the Hubble Space Telescope's heavily shadowed shroud doors,...
The first NASA Dropping In a Microgravity Environment (DIME) student competition pilot project came to a conclusion...
The Pathfinder aircraft has set a new unofficial world record for high-altitude flight of over 71,500 feet for...
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), with its normal routine temporarily interrupted, is about to be captured by the...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), a highly modified F-18 jet...
In preparation for the Artemis I flight test, teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida prepare the Matroshka...
The crew assigned to the STS-61B mission included Bryan D. O’Conner, pilot; Brewster H. Shaw, commander; Charles D....
After five days of service and upgrade work on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the STS-109 crew photographed the...
The crew assigned to the STS-61B mission included Bryan D. O’Conner, pilot; Brewster H. Shaw, commander; Charles D....
Two members of the U.S. Navy's Mobile Diving Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1 Explosive Ordnance Detachment work on recovering...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Spaceperson poses for a photo with Carver Middle...
This illustration is a schematic of the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)-2 and its experiments. It shows the...
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission approaches the Moon as it enters its science orbit in this artist's concept. The...