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The Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) mechanical team aligns the instrument on a transportation sled and slowly pushes...
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Webb Optical Telescope Element Manager, Lee Feinberg, autographs a piece of mail...
ISS036-E-035198 (22 Aug. 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, attired in a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,...
Andrew Rush, president and chief executive officer of Made in Space, discusses his company's Fiber Optics payload,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Hangar AE, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, technicians install the blankets around...
S125-E-007867 (16 May 2009) --- Astronaut John Grunsfeld, STS-125 mission specialist, participates in the mission?s...
The Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) team transports the instrument on its dolly to a cleanroom at Goddard Space Flight...
The first optical quality testing on a full window stack that is ready for installation in the docking hatch of...
FROM RIGHT, MARSHALL RESEARCHER DR. DAVID SMITH, U.S. ARMY RESEARCHER KRISHNA MYNENI AND ARMY CONTRACTOR HONGROK...
S125-E-008007 (16 May 2009) --- Astronauts Andrew Feustel and John Grunsfeld (partially obscured at bottom), both...
Mechanical technicians and thermal engineers work together to carefully feed the lines of a Loop Heat Pipe onto the...
The Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) mechanical technician team pose in front of the instrument after successfully...
S125-E-007864 (16 May 2009) --- With the Hubble Space Telescope in the background, astronaut Andrew Feustel, STS-125...
Mechanical Technicians, Daniel Dizon and Joseph Eddy, install the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) Earth Shade into a...
Engineer, Joe Thomes, disconnects the Multi-Lens Array fibers from the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) in the thermal...
Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) team members pose with the flight hardware after successful instrument integration to...
jsc2022e004236 (1/28/2022) --- A Optical coherence tomography (OCT) image of the posterior segement of the eye...
Bright green sources of high-energy X-ray light captured by NASA's NuSTAR mission are overlaid on an optical-light...
51F-42-069 (29 July-6 Aug 1985) --- The solar optical universal polarimeter (SOUP) experiment is visible among the...
A 2 week observation through the optic eye of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory revealed this sturning explosion...
The flight Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) is connected to flex lines and other alignment calibration hardware in a...
The Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) is integrated on the Tilt Mechanism prior to environmental testing in the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Wrapped inside a protective cover, the Swift spacecraft arrives at Launch Pad 17-A on...