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STS-93 Commander Eileen M. Collins waves to her family nearby, a last meeting before launch of mission STS-93 on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the early morning, the payload canister containing the Chandra X-ray Observatory,...
STS-93 Catherine G. Coleman (Ph.D.) sits inside the orbiter Columbia during Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test...
Inside the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Neutron star...
In the Vertical Processing Facility, the Chandra X-ray Observatory is lifted from its workstand in order to move it...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Pad 39-B, the Chandra X-ray Observatory sits inside the payload bay on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Columbia sits on Launch Pad 39B less than two weeks after liftoff of...
This animation gives an X-ray view of the Juno spacecraft's Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) star camera (left) as it is...
This graph shows the ratio of concentrations of several elements in four different pairs of targets examined by...
NICER’s X-ray concentrator optics are inspected under a black light for dust and foreign object debris that could...
Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning...
NASA image release August 17, 2010 Astronomers using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have found the first...
NICER engineer Steven Kenyon prepares seven of the 56 X-ray concentrators for installation in the NICER instrument....
Optics Lead Takashi Okajima prepares to align NICER’s X-ray optics. The payload’s 56 mirror assemblies concentrate...
NICER Optics Lead Takashi Okajima installs one of NICER’s 56 X-ray “concentrators,” each consisting of 24 concentric...
This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the...
Many of NICER’s 56 X-ray “concentrators” seen from within the instrument optical bench. Light reflected from the...
NICER team members Takashi Okajima, Yang Soong, and Steven Kenyon apply epoxy to the X-ray concentrator mounts after...
NICER Optics Lead Takashi Okajima makes a fine adjustment to the orientation of one X-ray “concentrator” optic. The...
Release date: July 1, 2008 This image is a composite of visible (or optical), radio, and X-ray data of the full...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Pegasus XL rocket that will...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the first, second and third stages...
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer was launched on April 28, 2003. Its mission is to study the shape, brightness, size...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the third stage of the Pegasus XL...