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Through Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Education Department, over 400 MSFC employees have volunteered to...
This is an orthographic projection with color-coded elevation contours and shaded relief based on data from the Mars...
Howard University graduate student LaRay Hare discusses his CubeRover project in the Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory...
These maps are global false-color topographic views of Mars at different orientations from NASA Mars Orbiter Laser...
The SELENE Optics project was designed to send powerful laser beams into space to repower satellites and to recharge...
NASA Dryden project engineer Dave Bushman carefully aims the optics of a laser device at a solar cell panel on a...
Autonomous Perception Vision project - Intelligent Systems - Machine Vision, Fusing Photonics and A.I. - Fiber-Optic...
Scientists from NASA's Space Geodesy Project discuss the techniques they use to precisely measure the Earth's...
KEN COOPER, TEAM LEAD OF MSFC’S ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TEAM, WITH NICKEL ALLOY 718 PARTS FABRICATED USING THE M1...
Howard University graduate student LaRay Hare discusses his CubeRover project in the Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory...
Particle-image velocimetry (PIV) is performed on the upper surface of a pitching airfoil in the NASA Glenn Icing...
How might lasers revolutionize deep space communications? NASA will test high-bandwidth laser (or optical)...
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) at NASA Jet Propulsion...
Dr. Joseph Randall, a laser expert at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), explains one of the projects he is...
Dr. Jan Rogers, project scientist for the Electrostatic Levitator (ESL) at NASA's Marshall Space Flight...
JOHNNIE CLARK, BRIAN WEST, AND ZACK JONES OF MSFC’S ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TEAM, WITH MSFC’S XLINE SELECTIVE LASER...
This infrared photograph shows the uplink laser beacon for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)...
AS11-37-5551 (20 July 1969) --- Two components of the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP) are seen...
Interior of the Equipment Module for the Laminar Soot Processes (LSP-2) experiment that fly in the STS-107 Research...
The Laminar Soot Processes (LSP) experiment under way during the Microgravity Sciences Lab-1 mission in 1997. LSP-2...
Image of soot (smoke) plume made for the Laminar Soot Processes (LSP) experiment during the Microgravity Sciences...
Scheduled to launch on Oct. 5, 2023, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Psyche mission is a journey to...
STS052-S-001 (July 1992) --- The insignia, designed by the STS-52 crew members, features a large gold star to...
This simulated image shows how a cloud of glitter in geostationary orbit would be illuminated and controlled by two...