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NASA astronaut and Artemis II backup crew member Andre Douglas uses a rock hammer and chisel to break a sample off a...
Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-50) astronaut Bornie Dunbar wears protective goggles to assemble a zeolite sample...
ISS041-E-042459 (30 Sept. 2014) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev, Expedition 41 flight engineer, works...
Space Station crew returns safely to Earth, practice for our asteroid sample return mission, and a new discovery...
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas examines a geology sample he collected during a simulated moonwalk in the San Francisco...
DATE: 6-9-14 LOCATION: Bldg. 9, PDL (Life Sciences) SUBJECT: Instructors and crewmember Scott Kelly during...
S71-21619 (1 March 1971) --- Dan Anderson works with Apollo 14 lunar samples in the Lunar Receiving Lab (LRL) during...
jsc2019e054895 (09-16-19) --- 2017 NASA astronaut candidates Raja Chari and Kayla Barron examines samples during...
ISS031-E-157791 (15 May 2012) --- European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, Expedition 31 flight engineer,...
This lunar map shows the traverse plans for the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission. Areas marked include Lunar module...
jsc2023e010166 (2/28/2023) --- Representation of the APHRODITE analytical system, comprising the disposable...
DATE: 6-9-14 LOCATION: Bldg. 9, PDL (Life Sciences) SUBJECT: Instructors and crewmember Scott Kelly during...
jsc2019e063626 (Nov. 5, 2019) --- Sample 73002 after being extruded Nov. 5, 2019 from its Apollo 17 drive tube...
iss065e017781 (April 28, 2021) --- Expedition 65 Flight Engineers (from top) Mark Vande Hei and Megan McArthur, both...
jsc2010e080356 (5/10/2010) --- A preflight photo of the Ferulate Samples installed in the Holders. The Ferulate...
iss064e004997 (Nov. 20, 2020) --- Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA shows off radish plants growing...
jsc2019e054780 (09-15-19) --- 2017 NASA astronaut candidate Raja Chari examines samples with field instructors...
iss068e038130 (Jan. 6, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration...
iss064e016824 (Dec. 30, 2020) --- NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is pictured conducting science operations inside the...
The first stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket is lifted to its vertical position on the tower at Launch Complex 17,...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility watch as the Stardust spacecraft is rotated and lowered before...
STS042-05-006 (22-30 Jan 1992) --- Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, payload commander, performs the Fluids Experiment...
S73-36162 (November 1973) --- Dr. Robert S. Clark changes magnetic tape on the Radiation Counting Laboratory's...
S69-32243 (22 April 1969) --- Two members of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission participate in a simulation of...