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In the high bay of Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, Chris Hardcastle, left, of...
In the high bay of Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, Chris Hardcastle of Stinger-Ghaffarian...
STS055-233-019 (26 April-6 May 1993) --- Terence T. (Tom) Henricks, STS-55 pilot, wears a special collar for a space...
In the high bay of Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, Chris Hardcastle of Stinger-Ghaffarian...
STS047-204-006 (12 - 20 Sept 1992) --- Dr. Mamoru Mohri, payload specialist representing Japan's National Space...
An imaging spectrometer designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory captured its first data over Karachi, Pakistan,...
This drawing illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) High Speed Photometer (HSP). The HSP measures the...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has successfully passed the center of curvature test, an important optical...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the farthest spectroscopically confirmed galaxy observed to date (inset)....
A fine spray of small, icy particles emanating from the warm, geologically unique province surrounding the south...
Lights shine on the umbilical tower shortly after a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launched with the...
iss068e021547 (11/10/2022) --- A view of the ISSET-Nanoracks-UWS 1 investigation shown in the cupola module aboard...
In October of 2017, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) celebrates one hundred days of collecting scientific data at...
ISS027-E-017243 (23 April 2011) --- European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Expedition 27 flight engineer,...
iss049e006037 (Sep. 17, 2016) --- Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) mounted on the Japanese Experiment Module's...
STS039-23-036 (28 April-6 May 1991) --- A 35mm frame of the Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights,...
There are 2 instruments on Landsat 9 to collect all the science data. The Operational Land Imager 2 collects light,...
STS039-25-006 (28 April-6 May 1991) --- A 35mm frame of the Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights,...
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE, is a space observatory built to discover the secrets of some of...
STS039-23-020 (28 April-6 May 1991) --- A 35mm frame of the Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights,...
S73-16007 (December 1972) --- A "mug shot" of Apollo 17 lunar sample no. 72255 which was brought back from the lunar...
jsc2013e090265 (Sep. 26, 2013) --- Cloud Aerosol Transport System (CATS) at NASA's Johnson Space Center undergoing...
ISS027-E-017245 (23 April 2011) --- European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Expedition 27 flight engineer,...
ISS027-E-017249 (23 April 2011) --- European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Expedition 27 flight engineer,...