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This image, taken in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shows sample tube number 266, which was used...
Just like drivers sometimes use snow to clean their car mirrors in winter, two Exelis Inc. engineers are practicing...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the Super...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - At the Astrotech payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
jsc2022e042615 (1/16/2022) --- The EMIT instrument after completion of all pre-launch environmental testing. The...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the middeck of Endeavour, in the Orbiter Processing Facility, Center Director Jim...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The payload canister moves back into the environmentally controlled high bay of the Payload...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - At the Astrotech payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Dust Atmospheric Recovery Technology, or DART, spacecraft is being assembled in a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Researchers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida check readings on the Dust Atmospheric...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A researcher at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida checks a reading on the Dust...
This photograph shows the Skylab Materials Processing Facility (M512) and the Multipurpose Furnace System (M518)....
iss050e037906 (02/02/2017) --- NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (left) and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The payload canister moves back into the environmentally controlled high bay of the Payload...
iss053e238931 (Nov. 22, 2017) --- Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin from Roscosmos works with the JPL Electronic...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Dust Atmospheric Recovery Technology, or DART, spacecraft is being assembled in a...
The dart and associated launching system was developed by engineers at MSFC to collect a sample of the aluminum...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Researchers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida check readings on the Dust Atmospheric...
iss059e034463 (April 23, 2019) --- NASA astronaut Anne McClain installs the MVP-2 platform onto Express Rack 4 and...
Athela Frandsen, an aerospace technologist with Kennedy Space Center’s analytical laboratories, presents her...
U.S. and Canadian Patent plaques were awarded to, second from left, Phillip Maloney, Robert Devor and Jacqueline...
This 1970 photograph shows Skylab's Multispectral Scanner, one of the major components of an Earth Resources...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The payload canister moves back into the environmentally controlled high bay of the Payload...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - At the Astrotech payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...