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The Sun goes through regular cycles of activity approximately every 11 years, and tracking these cycles is a key...
HQ-194 - 1969 - Color - 28.5 minutes. This film tells the story of the historic first landing of men on the Moon in...
Official portrait, Waleed Abdalati, NASA Chief Scientist, NASA Headquarters, Thursday Jan. 6, 2011 in Washington....
Official portrait, Leland Melvin, NASA Headquarters, Thursday Jan. 6, 2011 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill...
Portrait, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Washington,...
NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck, official portrait, taken at NASA Headquarters on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 in...
Official portrait, Laurie Leshin, NASA Headquarters, Thursday Jan. 6, 2011 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill...
Portrait, Lori B. Garver, Deputy Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Washington,...
Brad Doorn, SMAP applications lead, Science Mission Directorate’s Applied Sciences Program at NASA Headquarters...
Kent Kellogg, SMAP project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA, speaks during a...
Dara Entekhabi, SMAP science team lead, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks during a briefing about the...
Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive with the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division at NASA...
Dara Entekhabi, SMAP science team lead, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, center, speaks during a briefing...
Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive with the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division, NASA...
Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive with the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division, NASA...
S72-55170 (11 Dec. 1972) --- These five men in the Mission Control Center ponder the solution to the problem of the...