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A fourth and final Solid Rocket Booster, to be mated with a Boeing Delta II rocket, starts its lift up the tower at...
A Boeing Delta II rocket sits on Launch Pad 17A (left), Cape Canaveral Air Station, before mating with its final...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers prepare to open the Stardust Sample Return Capsule (SRC)...
iss066e113865 (Jan. 15, 2022) --- A sample site is denoted for the SQuARE archaeological investigation with pieces...
Clark University student Christie Wood lowers a water sampler into a borehole on July 4, 2010, to collect water...
iss074e0711160 (June 11, 2026) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 flight engineer Chris Williams conducts research...
On August 5, 2012 (PDT), NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on the Red Planet. Aboard was the Sample Analysis at...
On Earth, cataracts represent regions where a river's gradient increases enough to create so much turbulence, that...
Ian Clark walks past mission countdown clocks in the Perseverance offices at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
jsc2011e118362 - Panorama view of Apollo 16 lunar surface photos of the Station 10 and Sample 381 Rock taken during...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Karen Holloway-Adkins, KSC wildlife specialist, shows a sample of the sea grass she...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Karen Holloway-Adkins, KSC wildlife specialist, holds a sample of the sea grass she...
This image shows a cylinder of rock the size of a piece of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...
S73-15171 (4 Jan. 1973) --- These orange glass spheres and fragments are the finest particles ever brought back from...
On Saturday, November 26, NASA is scheduled to launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission featuring Curiosity,...
After 1,000 Martian days of exploration, NASA’s Perseverance rover is studying rocks that show several eras in the...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is using its self-driving capabilities as it treks across Jezero Crater seeking signs...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama of at the "Avanavero"...
A planetary protection engineer in full-body protective gear carefully collects samples from NASA's Europa Clipper...
STS79-E-5018 (17 September 1996) --- Astronaut Jerome (Jay) Apt prepares experiment, a rod-like device for insertion...
ISS018-E-043434 (28 March 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 18...
Perched on a rippled Martian plain, a dark rock not much bigger than a basketball was the target of interest for...
ISS018-E-040949 (18 March 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 18...
Inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United Launch Alliance (ULA)...