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Research scientist Gary Stutte displays a wheat sample that is part of ground testing for the first International...
iss050e013146 (12/1/2016) --- NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas...
iss065e093499 (June 7, 2021) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Megan McArthur installs a new...
iss047e055613 (4/11/2016) --- A view of the JAXA Protein Crystal Growth (PCG) Demo Sample, in the Japanese...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
Engineers from NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, and Marshall Space Flight Center in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Pad 39B, a worker pries a sample from the leaking ground support liquid...
jsc2021e019954 (5/20/2021) --- A preflight Ice Brick group photo. Ice Bricks are flat rectangular packs for use in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, workers prepare to lift the tile box from the...
A close-up image of a 2-inch-deep hole produced using a new drilling technique for NASA's Curiosity rover. The hole...
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) President, Hiroshi...
jsc2023e053548 (3/3/2023) --- Granular Sound: inside surface of a sample cell wall, covered with foam for acoustic...
Dr. Richard Grugel, a materials scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Ala., examines the furnace...
jsc2019e062137 (10/24/2019) --- Loading of the nematodes into the sample tubes. Microgravity Effect on...
iss060e015476 --- (7/29/2019) Photo documentation aboard the International space Station (ISS) of the The United...
jsc2019m001199 - Now that our researchers’ experiment is on the International Space Station, it’s time to test how...
iss065e084906 (June 1, 2021) --- Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) swaps...
A video clip recorded on Earth using the Extant Live Volumetric Imaging System (ELVIS) to track swimming patterns of...
iss072e217998 (Nov. 18, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore swaps sample...
iss067e189976 (July 19, 2022) --- Expedition 67 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Bob Hines processes samples...
In the Payload Hazardous Service Facility, the Stardust spacecraft sits wrapped in plastic covering. Built by...
jsc2025e065391 (1/15/2025) --- A six-well BioCell, the hardware that holds samples for the International Space...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
iss057e074528 (Nov. 9, 2018) --- NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor is pictured in the Japanese Kibo lab module...