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jsc2019e062137 (10/24/2019) --- Loading of the nematodes into the sample tubes. Microgravity Effect on...
ISS010-E-24980 (18 April 2005) --- Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, Expedition 11 commander representing Russia's...
S69-55362 (6 Oct. 1969) --- The two assigned moon-walking crew members for the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Fred W. Haise Jr., Apollo 13 lunar module pilot, inspects the sampling tube to be used to...
iss064e035033 (2/19/2021) --- A view at the cupola window of collects tubes containing swab samples of microbes for...
Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong works with an Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container during a two-and-a-half-hour...
Composite of Marshall Space Flight Center's Low-Gravity Free Fall Facilities.These facilities include a 100-meter...
This image of Martian regolith – broken rock and dust – was captured Dec. 2, 2022, by the Sampling and Caching...
This image shows a core, about 2.8 inches (71.1 millimeters) in length, collected from a basaltic rock during a test...
High school students screen crystals of various proteins that are part of the ground-based work that supports...
High school students screen crystals of various proteins that are part of the ground-based work that supports...
High school students screen crystals of various proteins that are part of the ground-based work that supports...
NASA's Perseverance rover deposited the first of several samples onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022, the...
jsc2019e062136 (10/24/2019) --- Dr. Karl Shiller presents the loaded nematode tube samples. Microgravity Effect on...
NASA Glenn’s Propulsion Systems Lab (PSL) is conducting research to characterize ice crystal clouds that can create...
A portion of a cored-rock sample is ejected from the rotary percussive drill on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The...
This image shows the rocky outcrop the Perseverance science team calls "Berea" after the NASA Mars rover extracted a...
This image shows a cylinder of rock the size of a piece of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...
On Saturday, November 26, NASA is scheduled to launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission featuring Curiosity,...
A close-up view of an engineering model of SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for...
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is sponsoring research with Bioreactors, rotating wall vessels designed...
Research with plants in microgravity offers many exciting opportunities to gain new insights and could improve...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on July 23, 2024, the 1,218th Martian day, or sol, of the mission....
This pair of images shows two cylinders of rock the size of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...