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Skylab-3 was the second marned mission in the skylab project. The crew spent 59 days in orbit. In this photo,...
NASA's SPHEREx mission will study the universe's early expansion, the history of galaxies, and the composition of...
Betsy Congdon of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab is the Lead Thermal Engineer on the heat shield that NASA's Solar...
Sara Susca, deputy payload manager and payload systems engineer for the NASA's SPHEREx mission, looks up at one of...
NASA's SPHEREx mission will operate in low Earth orbit, detecting hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies and...
Shortly after liftoff on May 14, 1973, atmospheric drag tore off the thin metallic shield of Skylab that was...
The Saturn V vehicle, carrying the unmarned orbital workshop for the Skylab-1 mission, lifted off successfully and...
S82-39796 (11-16 Nov. 1982) --- A ?night? scene of the STS-5 space shuttle Columbia in orbit over Earth?s glowing...
THE SOLAR PROBE PLUS CUP INSTRUMENT WILL BE PART OF THE SOLAR PROBE PLUS MISSION TO STUDY THE SUN. THE CUP WILL FLY...
This poster artfully depicts Solar Surfing, an early stage NASA study to support potential future missions that...
Two seamstresses stitch together a sun-shade for Skylab Orbital Workshop (OWS), the first U.S. experimental space...
61C-39-002 (12-17 Jan 1986) --- This view of the cargo bay of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia reveals some...
iss072e371351 (Dec. 17, 2024) --- The NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray telescope is pictured...
iss072e371305 (Dec. 17, 2024) --- The NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray telescope is pictured...
The Saturn V vehicle, carrying the unmarned orbital workshop for the Skylab-1 mission, lifted off successfully and...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Wednesday, June...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Wednesday, June...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Wednesday, June...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Wednesday, June...
The Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM), designed and developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center, served as the primary...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Wednesday, June...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Wednesday, June...
The Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM), designed and developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center, served as the primary...
S73-26773 (26 May 1973) --- The deployment of the ?parasol? solar shield, a sunshade to help cool the overheated...