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Marshall Space Flight Center’s (MSFC) director, Dr. Wernher von Braun (right), inspects a component of a laser...
LASER EXPERIMENT IN REAR PORTION OF CE-13 IN ENGINE RESEARCH BUILDING
AS11-37-5551 (20 July 1969) --- Two components of the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP) are seen...
A brief laser flash at the center of the frame was part of an experiment conducted by two NASA CubeSats. In it, one...
How might lasers revolutionize deep space communications? NASA will test high-bandwidth laser (or optical)...
B-roll for media and public use. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment marked a historic...
Arctic Ozone Expedition Stavanger Norway: Arlin Carter, NASA Langley Research Center, is shown here with colleague...
AS11-40-5948 (20 July 1969) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo...
Two sets of laser pulses transmitted from Earth to a spacecraft over a distance of 1.4 million kilometers 870,000...
This timelapse video shows the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California,...
The STS-52 insignia, designed by the mission’s crew members, features a large gold star to symbolize the crew's...
The Diode Laser Hygrometer, or DLH is an instrument uses a laser sensor to detect concentrations of water vapor in...
The Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-52) thunders off Launch Pad 39B, embarking on a 10-day flight and carrying a crew of...
The Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-52) thunders off Launch Pad 39B, embarking on a 10-day flight and carrying a crew of...
The Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-52) thunders off Launch Pad 39B, embarking on a 10-day flight and carrying a crew of...
S65-61777 (8 Dec. 1965) --- Close-up view of a laser transmitter unit which is being used for the Gemini-7 Optical...
Particle-image velocimetry (PIV) is performed on the upper surface of a pitching airfoil in the NASA Glenn Icing...
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver is shown at NASA's...
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver can be easily...
Deena Dombrosky (Zin Technologies Engineer) is shown here filling a Procter & Gamble (P & G) sample that will be...
DC-8 NAMMA MISSION TO CAPE VERDE, AFRICA: Glenn Diskin (l) Bruce Anderson (c) & Ed Winstead (r) examine data on...
Ground testing for the first confocal Light Microscopy Microscope (LMM) Experiment. Procter and Gamble is working...
The purpose of the experiments for the Advanced Automated Directional Solidification Furnace (AADSF) is to determine...
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS - Man's first landing on the Moon was accomplished at 4:17 p.m. today as Lunar...