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The first optical quality testing on a full window stack that is ready for installation in the docking hatch of...
Mark Nurge, Ph.D., a physicist in the Applied Physics Lab with the Exploration Research and Technology Programs at...
A 3 mm-diameter droplet of aluminum oxide, heated to 2371 deg. C (4,300 deg. F), is suspended in midair by six...
Inside a laboratory in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
Marshall Space Flight Center's researchers have conducted suborbital experiments with ZBLAN, an optical material...
A NASA team studying the causes of electrical storms and their effects on our home planet achieved a milestone on...
S72-49482 (November 1972) --- The Optical Recorder of the Lunar Sounder Experiment (S-209) which will be mounted in...
This patch represents the essential elements associated with pressurized Earth science research aboard the...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center researcher Americo Forestieri aims a ruby...
In this photograph, Vince Huegele of the Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC's) Space Optics Manufacturing...
On Nov. 7, 2018 for just under an hour, SDO viewed a lunar transit, when the Moon partially blocked SDO's view of...
The live launch broadcast for NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, a mission to a unique metal-rich asteroid. Psyche will...
The live launch broadcast for NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, a mission to a unique metal-rich asteroid. Psyche will...
Through Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Education Department, over 400 MSFC employees have volunteered to...
The live launch broadcast for NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, a mission to a unique metal-rich asteroid. Psyche will...
Observation Date: 1 pointing on Dec 4, 2000 and 9 pointings between Nov 18 and Dec 5, 2008. Distance Estimate: About...
Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy....
The world's largest active volcano – Hawaii's Mauna Loa – had been quiet for 38 years. But in 2022, the volcano...
Professor Gerold Willing from the University of Louisville speaks about Colloidal Crystals possible use in the...
The Prelaunch News Conference ahead of launch for NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, a mission to a unique metal-rich...
NASA's Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room on Dec. 8, 2022, at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the...
The science briefing ahead of launch for NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, a mission to a unique metal-rich asteroid. Psyche...
S48-E-013 (15 Sept 1991) --- The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) in the payload bay of the earth-...
The primary objective of the STS-35 mission was round the clock observation of the celestial sphere in ultraviolet...