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STS105-E-5306 (16 August 2001) --- Astronaut Patrick G. Forrester works with the first external experiment on the...
jsc2018e059572_alt (5/29/2018) --- The miniPCR platform, used for the amplification of nucleic acids, from the Genes...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Beach House, Congressman Tom Feeney (right) greets William Sample, president of...
OSIRIS-REx Launch Event at Goddard Visitor Center. NASA's first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at...
iss050e012907 (11/29/2016) --- European Space Agency (ESA) Thomas Pesquet (only leg - wearing electrodes) during the...
jsc2021e037882 (4/26/2021) --- A preflight photo of the contents of the seed packages of the Seeds and Martian Yeast...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39A, technicians check the clearance of the payload bay door as it closes...
A lightweight simulator version of NASA's Resource Prospector undergoes a mobility test in a regolith bin at the...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
iss064e005049 (Nov. 20, 2020) --- Radish plants are pictured growing inside the Columbus laboratory module's...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, enclosed in a payload fairing, is lifted at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, enclosed in a payload fairing, is positioned atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket...
jsc2021e033555 (5/12/2021) --- A prefliight view of Ice Cubes #9 - Project Maleth. The Maltese Biocube, based on ICE...
STS073-356-029 (20 October - 5 November 1995) --- Astronaut Catherine G. Coleman, STS-73 mission specialist, checks...
iss070e003139 (Oct. 12, 2023) --- Expedition 70 Commander Andreas Mogensen of ESA (European Space Agency)...
OSIRIS-REx curator Nicole Lunning, left, and deputy curator Christopher Snead stand inside the OSIRIS-REx cleanroom...
Photo (part of time lapse) taken during Celestial Immunity Plate Second Sampling in the Japanese Experiment Module...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
iss073e0865452 (Oct. 7, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Zena Cardman inspects sample...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
The ATom mission aboard NASA’s DC-8 aircraft and flying laboratory is sampling world-wide in one of the most...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
iss068e012558 (10/7/2022) --- A view of the Rhodium Space Microbiome Isolates sample aboard the International space...
Research scientist Gary Stutte displays a wheat sample that is part of ground testing for the first International...