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The Army Ballistic Missile Agency incorporated the von Braun team in key positions with Dr. von Braun as a head of...
The ringed planet sits in repose, the center of its own macrocosm of many rings and moons and one artificial NASA...
jsc2021e066968 (8/27/2021) --- A preflight view of materialtesting for the design of wooden artificial satellites...
The first known proposal for a marned-satellite appeared in a story by Edward Everett Hale entitled "The Brick...
Artist concept shows the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite E (TDRS-E) augmenting a sophisticated TDRS system (TDRSS)...
This annotated view of a portion of Pluto's Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), named for Earth's first artificial...
Aeronautics and Space Report_69_71-75_77-79 teleoperators (exo-skeletal systems), the walking truck, possible...
41D-32-067 (31 Aug 1984) --- The Atlantic Oceans coastline of Angola forms the backdrop for this scene of the Syncom...
Science fiction writers, like Jules Verne in France and Edward Everett Hale in America, had discovered one of the...
S94-30392 (16 Feb 1994) --- The Space Radar Laboratory-1 (SRL-1) is being transferred from the payload canister...
Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight...
In July 1990, the Marshall Space Flight Center, in a joint project with the Department of Defense/Air Force Space...
At night, a satellite's view of Earth lights up in bright strings of roads dotted with pearl-like cities and towns...
STS044-71-011 (25 Nov. 1991) --- A 70mm frame shows pre-deployment view of the Defense Support Payload (DSP),...
One of the STS-51 astronauts used a "fish-eye" lens on a 35mm cmaera to photograph this view of Hurricane Kenneth in...
Astronauts Frank L. Culbertson Jr., STS-51 mission commander, and Daniel W. Bursch, mission specialist, are seen on...
STS052-80-030 (23 Oct 1992) --- One of a series of three views of the deployment of the Laser Geodynamic Satellite...
At center left of Pluto vast heart-shaped feature "Tombaugh Regio" -- lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to...
Lunar Take Off Simulator: This simulator is used by scientists at the Langley Research Center ... to help determine...
On Jan. 24, 2017, the Hyperion Imager on NASA's Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) spacecraft observed a new eruption at...
NASA image acquired April 18 - October 23, 2012 This image of North and South America at night is a composite...
ISS029-E-012564 (29 Sept. 2011) --- The Midwestern United States at night with Aurora Borealis is featured in this...
Houston, We Have a Podcast! Welcome to the official podcast of NASA Johnson Space Center, Episode 404: CHAPEA...