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jsc2025e064334 (7/22/2025) --- This hands-on demonstration illustrated how different materials respond to different...
An AH-64 (Apache) Longbow fire control full size radar photographed during icing tests in the Icing Research wind...
NASA’s Virtual Glovebox (VGX) was developed to allow astronauts on Earth to train for complex biology research tasks...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Tracey Kickbusch, chief of computational sciences at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
jsc2025e064335 (7/22/2025) --- This hands-on demonstration illustrated how different materials respond to different...
More than 1,500 individual pieces of carbon fiber, flight-grade aluminum, silicon, copper, foil and foam go into a...
A few months before New Horizons was due to reach Pluto, a community of scientists came together to determine just...
S72-30694 (28 Jan. 1972) --- Astronauts John W. Young, left, Apollo 16 commander, and Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Former NASA astronaut Tom Jones, left, presses the button on a simulated model of an asteroid...
Engineers in a Mars-like test area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory try possible strategies to aid the Heat Flow...
This image shows an experiment conducted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory re-creating the processes that form...
This visualization is based on the first three-dimensional numerical model of melting snowflakes in the atmosphere,...
In this video NASA solar physicist Holly Gilbert narrates a visualization of the slow changes in the sun's magnetic...
STS-99 Mission Specialist Janet Lynn Kavandi (Ph.D.) settles into her seat inside Space Shuttle Endeavour during...
STS-99 Commander Kevin Kregel goes through countdown procedures on the flight deck aboard the Space Shuttle...
STS-99 Mission Specialist Gerhard Thiele, who is with the European Space Agency, goes through countdown procedures...
Researchers check the setup of a multi-nozzle base flow model in the 10- by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the...
STS-99 Pilot Dominic Gorie goes through countdown procedures on the flight deck aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour...
Oct. 29, 2012 – A day before landfall, Sandy intensified into a Category 2 superstorm nearly 1,000 miles wide....
NASA Researchers view a demonstration of the moon dust simulator in the 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel facility...
HAMPTON, Va. – NASA technician Ricky Hall works inside the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at NASA's Langley Research...
jsc2021e052202 (3/11/2021) --- A view of the Binar-1 flight model undergoing routine vibration testing for flight...
**Note also copied and numbered as L90-3749. -- L57-4827 caption: Take off of a five-stage missile research rocket...
HAMPTON, Va. – NASA technician Ricky Hall works inside the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at NASA's Langley Research...