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Still photographs taken over 16 hours on Nov. 13, 2001, on the International Space Station have been condensed into...
Preparations are underway to offload the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover from the...
NASA’s C-130 aircraft cargo hold is open for offloading of the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars...
The first United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1) was one of NASA's science and technology programs that...
Workers begin to offload the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover from the agency’s...
In September 2023, scientists with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will gather in the Utah desert for the arrival of the...
NASA's Perseverance rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this enhanced color view of the eroded eastern edge...
Workers use a special handling device to offload the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars Perseverance...
NASA’s C-130 aircraft arrives at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch and Landing Facility in Florida on May 11, 2020,...
This graph shows the relative elevation of various sampling sites visited by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Colored...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission presented the science results gained during the spacecraft’s approach toward the asteroid...
In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to...
On Nov. 11, 2019, while the REXIS instrument was performing detailed science observations of Bennu, it captured...
This series of pie charts shows similarities and differences in the mineral compositions of mudstones at 10 sites...
GRC engineer Heather Oravec explains space tires and the STEM path that led to her NASA career. Sample of longer...
NACA Photographer/Graphic Supersonic Research: Schlieren photograph of the flow around airplane models showing...
jsc2019e055001 (09-16-19) --- 2017 NASA astronaut candidate Loral O’Hara scans her sample during data collection...
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas uses a hammer and chisel to break off a small sample during a¬¬ nighttime simulated...
iss070e091765 (Feb. 12, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli is pictured...
iss068e018995 (Oct. 24, 2022) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Josh Cassada stows blood samples...
jsc2019e055036 (09-17-19) --- 2017 NASA astronaut candidate Warren Hoburg examines samples during geology training...
jsc2022e083568 (11/2/2022) --- An example of the silicone skins that will contain and shape the liquid extrusion...
iss069e085932_alt (Sept. 4, 2023) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli collects...
iss060e073348 (Sept. 18, 2019) --- NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan stow biological research samples...