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NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID, arrives by cargo truck at Vandenberg...
Technicians work on installing ejectable data recorders onto NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable...
Inside Building 836 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, a worker inspects and prepares hardware used...
Irene Parker, deputy assistant administrator, NOAA Systems, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Services,...
NASA held a prelaunch news conference for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar...
Omar Baez, launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program, participates in a prelaunch news conference for the...
Tim Walsh, director, NOAA’s JPSS Program Office, NOAA, participates in a prelaunch news conference for the National...
Gary Wentz, vice president, Government and Commercial Programs, ULA, participates in a prelaunch news conference for...
John Gagosian, director, NASA’s Joint Agency Satellite Division, participates in a prelaunch news conference for the...
Omar Baez, launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program, participates in a prelaunch news conference for the...
NASA held a prelaunch news conference for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar...
Capt. Zack Zounes, launch weather officer, U.S. Space Force, participates in a prelaunch news conference for the...
Megan Cruz, NASA Communications, moderates a prelaunch news conference for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, participates in a prelaunch...
NASA Aqua satellite carries six state-of-the-art instruments in a near-polar low-Earth orbit. Aqua is seen in this...
These North Polar layered deposits, composed of ice, captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, show...
NASA held a prelaunch news conference for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar...
NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) arrives for processing inside Building 836...
NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) arrives for processing inside Building 836...
Inside the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, technicians secure the...
Inside the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, technicians monitor the...
Technicians lower the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V boattail onto the rocket’s Centaur upper stage inside the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This logo for the Gravity Probe B mission portrays the theory of curved spacetime and...
Behold one of the more detailed images of the Earth yet created. This Blue Marble Earth montage shown above --...