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FROM RIGHT, MARSHALL RESEARCHER DR. DAVID SMITH, U.S. ARMY RESEARCHER KRISHNA MYNENI AND ARMY CONTRACTOR HONGROK...
A red light confirms that the fiber of the Fiber Optic Sensing System installed on the Mock Truss-Braced Wing...
Patrick Chan, electronics engineer, and NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s FOSS portfolio project manager,...
iss073e0028436 (May 12, 2025) --- NASA astronaut Jonny Kim conducts research activities for the ADvanced Space...
View of the Glenn Research Center Hangar from the Cleveland Hopkins Airport Runway during a testing flight on June...
Aerial Photograph of Glenn Research Center With Downtown Cleveland in the Distance taken from the PC-12 on June 13,...
At Glenn Research Center, the PC-12 is Prepped for a flight and ready to takeoff on June 12, 2024. A team at NASA’s...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...
Adam Wroblewski and Shaun McKeehan Working In PC-12 Aircraft during in flight testing on June 13, 2024. A team at...
Kurt Blankenship and James Demers Fly PC-12 Aircraft During Testing on June 13, 2024. A team at NASA’s Glenn...
Clark University's Karen Frey and Luke Trusel work amid sea ice in the Chukchi Sea on July 4, 2010, setting up an...
The National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC), located in Huntsville, Alabama, is a laboratory for...
The National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC), located in Huntsville, Alabama, is a laboratory for...
NASA research Dr. Donald Frazier uses a blue laser shining through a quartz window into a special mix of chemicals...
Sections of ZBLAN fibers pulled in a conventional 1-g process (right) and in experiments aboard NASA's KC-135...
A virtual tour of the JSC Lighting Lab that provides internal and external lighting requirements verification for...
STS075-310-002 (22 Feb.-9 March 1996) --- Astronaut Maurizio Cheli, STS-75 mission specialist, works with the Tether...
The optical bench for the Fluids Integrated Rack section of the Fluids and Combustion Facility (FCF) is shown...
iss073e0548503 (Aug. 28, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedtion 73 Flight Engineer Mike Fincke displays the...
jsc2023e054753 (9/27/2023) --- Optical Coherence tomography image demonstrating the retinal ultrastructure of the...
ISS038-E-042754 (5 Feb. 2014) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight...
iss073e0118391 (May 20, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Anne McClain assembles research...
jsc2023e038732 (6/9/2023) --- The MaRVIn system is shown as it will be housed in the Microgravity Glovebox (MSG)...
The Center for Advanced Microgravity Materials Processing (CAMMP), a NASA-sponsored Research Partnership Center, is...