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The Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) is prepared for testing in the Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) chamber showing...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is interviewed by NASA public affairs specialist Jasmine Hopkins before the launch of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Technician Grace Miller-Swales does touch-up work on the Swift spacecraft in Hangar AE...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Project managers Mike Miller and Rex Eberhardt stand in front of the Swift spacecraft...
In late October, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will navigate to asteroid Bennu’s surface for its first sample collection...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, technicians take a final look at the...
Mechanical technicians, Nicholas Kwiatkowski and Thomas Huber, guide the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) as it is...
The Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) team reviews test plans and inspects the instrument in the thermal vacuum chamber...
Inside a laboratory in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Hangar AE, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a technician works on a blanket...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Swift spacecraft is in Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Swift has...
Marshall Space Flight Center's researchers have conducted suborbital experiments with ZBLAN, an optical material...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This view shows the 32-inch-ball turret system mounted on the nose of a WB-57 aircraft...
Optical prots ring the Electrostatic Levitator (ESL) vacuum chamber to admit light from the heating laser (the beam...
Clark University's Karen Frey and Luke Trusel work amid sea ice in the Chukchi Sea on July 4, 2010, setting up an...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a technician performs blanket...
NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is moments away from lift off from Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral...
The Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) is configured for vibration testing. OCI is bagged with Dun-Shield to protect the...
AS14-64-9193 (5 Feb. 1971) --- A close-up view of the forward section of the Apollo 14 Lunar Module (LM) ascent...
Aerospace Engineer, Daniel Senai, inspects the Solar Calibration Assembly (SCA) Life Test Unit mechanism for the...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Laurie Leshin, left, speaks with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson prior to the...
Test conductor, Lucas Tucker, monitors thermal vacuum testing operations in the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) control...
Thermal blanket technicians, Aldine Joseph-pierre and Paula Cain, adjust blankets on the Ocean Color Instrument...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center are...