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Neera Martin, a NASA Glenn student intern, works on a drop package for the 'Dropping in Microgravity Environment...
Tear-drop Volcano
Engineers dropped an 14,000-pound test version of the Orion spacecraft into the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA's Langley...
A short version of the Zero-G Drop Tower capabilities documenting the unique experiment package drop process.
Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, dropped a full-scale aircraft body, modeled...
Water drop and recovery from shore-based crane at Langley's back river.
Water drop and recovery from shore-based crane at Langley's back river.
Water drop and recovery from shore-based crane at Langley's back river.
Photographed on: 12 09 58. -- Mercury capsule details, capsule in cargo bay of C-130 airplane prior to drop test,...
Photographed on: 12 09 58. -- Mercury capsule details, capsule in cargo bay of C-130 airplane prior to drop test,...
(February 19, 2025) -- NASA astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates electrostatic forces using charged water droplets and...
Composite of Marshall Space Flight Center's Low-Gravity Free Fall Facilities.These facilities include a 100-meter...
Goddard Technicians Tony Kiem (left) and George Mooney (right) guide the craned structure holding the Webb...
The water-world Enceladus appears here to sit atop Saturn rings like a drop of dew upon a leaf in this view from...
A Drop Tube is a long vertical shaft used for dropping experiment packages, enabling them to achieve microgravity...
Inside view from the back of an aircraft cabin. The Lift Plus Cruise #2: eVTOL swing and drop test held at the...
Low Gravity Drop Facility
On July 12, 2011, crew from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy retrieved a canister dropped by parachute from a...
iss064e002379 (1/15/2017) --- Photo documentation of Inertial Spreading with Vibration and Water Coalescence (Drop...
iss064e002375 (1/15/2017) --- Photo documentation of Inertial Spreading with Vibration and Water Coalescence (Drop...
An experiment vehicle plunges into the deceleration pit at the end of a 5.18-second drop in the Zero-Gravity...
An experiment vehicle plunges into the deceleration pit at the end of a 5.18-second drop in the Zero-Gravity...
An experiment vehicle plunges into the deceleration at the end of a 5.18-second drop in the Zero-Gravity Research...
An experiment vehicle plunges into the deceleration pit at the end of a 5.18-second drop in the Zero-Gravity...