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The `once upon a time' science fiction concept of a space elevator has been envisioned and studied as a real mass...
The giant Mars antenna at NASA Deep Space Network Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex replaced four...
Work began on March 11, 2010 to replace a set of elevation bearings on the giant Mars antenna at NASA Deep Space...
Cape Town and the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, appear in the foreground of this perspective view generated from...
NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission SRTM, flown aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in February 2000, acquired...
Tom Neumann, ICESat-2 Deputy Project Scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is seen during a NASA Ice, Cloud...
Cathy Richardson, Deputy Program Manager, Earth Science Projects Division, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is...
Tim Dunn, Launch Director, NASA's Kennedy Space Center, is seen during a NASA Ice, Cloud and land Elevation...
Tom Wagner, ICESat-2 Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters, left, and Doug McLennan, ICESat-2 Project Manager, NASA's...
1st Lt. Daniel Smith, Weather Officer, 30th Space Wing, Vandenberg Air Force Base, is seen during a NASA Ice, Cloud...
Doug McLennan, ICESat-2 Project Manager, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is seen during a NASA Ice, Cloud and...
Bill Barnhart, ICESat-2 Program Manager, Northrop Grumman, left, Doug McLennan, ICESat-2 Project Manager, NASA's...
Lori Magruder, ICESat-2 Science Definition Team Lead, University of Texas, left, Tom Neumann, ICESat-2 Deputy...
For the second straight year, NASA researchers endured low temperatures, biting winds, and high altitude to conduct...
The floor buttons are in view for one of the elevators in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space...
S65-61848 (4 Dec. 1965) --- Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., pilot for the National Aeronautics and Space...
Doug McLennan, ICESat-2 project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, speaks to members of the news media...
Tim Dunn, launch director, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, speaks to members of the news media and social...
Tom Neumann, ICESat-2 deputy project scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, speaks to members of the news...
1st Lt. Daniel Smith, launch weather officer, 30th Space Wing, Vandenberg Air Force Base, speaks to members of the...
Tom Neumann, ICESat-2 deputy project scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, speaks to members of the news...
Cathy Richardson, Deputy Program Manager, Earth Science Projects Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, speaks...
Tim Dunn, launch director, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, speaks to members of the news media and social...
With extreme cold-weather gear, scientific instruments, and two tank-like snow machines called PistenBullys, they...