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Scientists Ryan Boyd (left) and Vladislav Sevostianov (right) attend to the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science...
NASA astronaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Victor Glover performs a sample exchange in the Microgravity...
This graph depicts the increased signal quality possible with optical fibers made from ZBLAN, a family of...
iss064e011648 (Dec. 10, 2020) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins conducts research...
ISS070E110532 - NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara poses in front of the Destiny laboratory’s Microgravity Science Glovebox...
NASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via sophisticated new...
NASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via sophisticated new...
NASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Technology Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via...
NASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Technology Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via...
New Delhi, India's capital city, is currently suffering though a period of particularly poor air quality. In early...
Quality engineer, John Tota, poses with a magnifying glass and stands close to the textured wall in the Electro...
Scarning electron microscope images of the surface of ZBLAN fibers pulled in microgravity (ug) and on Earth (1g)...
NASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via sophisticated new...
NASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via sophisticated new...
NASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via sophisticated new...
Megan MacDonald, left, leads NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Victor J. Glover, right, on a tour of the Laser...
Megan MacDonald, left, leads NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Victor J. Glover, right, on a tour of the Laser...
Sections of ZBLAN fibers pulled in a conventional 1-g process (right) and in experiments aboard NASA's KC-135...
The first optical quality testing on a full window stack that is ready for installation in the docking hatch of...
Mark Nurge, Ph.D., a physicist in the Applied Physics Lab with the Exploration Research and Technology Programs at...
Inside a laboratory in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
The Aerosciences Evaluation and Test Capabilities (AETC) Portfolio implemented the Capability Challenge “Optical...
Mark Nurge, a physicist in Kennedy Space Center’s Applied Physics Lab, stands near a laser interferometer, which is...
Mark Nurge, a physicist in Kennedy Space Center’s Applied Physics Lab, stands near a laser interferometer, which is...