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Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from...
Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from...
This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples of rocks and soil...
In this 30 minute exposure, star trails are seen above Michael Army Air Field and Dugway Proving Ground, Sunday,...
S69-40110 (25 July 1969) --- The first Apollo 11 sample return container, containing lunar surface material, is...
iss069e088358 (9/14/2023) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa is seen...
NASA's Perseverance rover deposited the first of several sample tubes onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022, the...
Engineers react with surprise while testing how NASA's Perseverance rover will deposit its sample tubes on the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A member of the recovery team examines with a magnifier the Growth of Bacterial Biofilm...
NASA's Perseverance rover deposited the first of several samples onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022, the...
Recovery team members load a container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission onto a C-17...
iss054e006421 912/21/2017) --- NASA astronaut Joe Acaba conducts fluid exchange and sampling for the Synthetic Bone...
Recovery and curation teams join a container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission aboard a C-17...
Recovery team members load a container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission onto a C-17...
jsc2023e055874 (10/5/2023) --- The Testing Contaminant Rejection of Aquaporin Inside® HFFO Module (Aquamembrane-3)...
Recovery team members load a container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission onto a C-17...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Valerie Cassanto holds a piece of the Commercial ITA Biomedical Experiments payload...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - John Cassanto of ITA points to an area of the Growth of Bacterial Biofilm on Surfaces...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - John Cassanto of ITA moves part of the Growth of Bacterial Biofilm on Surfaces during...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - John Cassanto of ITA takes photos of the Growth of Bacterial Biofilm on Surfaces during...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - John Cassanto of ITA and his daughter Valerie stand next to the table holding the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - John Cassanto of ITA looks at the Growth of Bacterial Biofilm on Surfaces during...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take this panorama of a proposed landing site...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take this image of flat terrain in Jezero...