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NASA image: GRC-2019-C-00536
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Mar 18, 2019

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Flow Boiling Condensation Experiment, FBCE Micro Gravity Payload, Condensation Module – Heat Transfer (CM-HT) Test...

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NASA image: Flow Boiling Condensation Experiment, FBCE Micro Gravity Payl...
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Feb 19, 2019

Flow Boiling Condensation Experiment, FBCE Micro Gravity Payl...

A technician in the Instrumentation Shop during the buildup of Flow Boiling Condensation Experiment, FBCE Micro...

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NASA image: Combustion Science
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Aug 7, 2002

Combustion Science

Interior of a combustion experiment apparatus used in the 2.2-second drop tower at NASA's Glenn Research Center....

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NASA image: Testing of software with ground hardware for the Structue and Response of Spherical Diffusion Flames, s-Flame, experiment in the Telescience Support Center, TSC, also known as the Glenn ISS Payload Operations Center, GIPOC
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Jan 14, 2020

Testing of software with ground hardware for the Structue and Response of Spherical Diffusion Flames, s-Flame, experiment in the Telescience Support Center, TSC, also known as the Glenn ISS Payload Operations Center, GIPOC

Testing of software with ground hardware for the Structue and Response of Spherical Diffusion Flames, s-Flame,...

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NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is installed into the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia in Orbiter Processing Facility 1. The Spacelab long crew transfer tunnel that leads from the orbiter's crew airlock to the module is also aboard, as well as the Hitchhiker Cryogenic Flexible Diode (CRYOFD) experiment payload, which is attached to the right side of Columbia's payload bay. During the scheduled 16-day STS-83 mission, the MSL-1 will be used to test some of the hardware, facilities and procedures that are planned for use on the International Space Station while the flight crew conducts combustion, protein crystal growth and materials processing experiments.
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Feb 13, 1997

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is installed into the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia in Orbiter Processing Facility 1. The Spacelab long crew transfer tunnel that leads from the orbiter's crew airlock to the module is also aboard, as well as the Hitchhiker Cryogenic Flexible Diode (CRYOFD) experiment payload, which is attached to the right side of Columbia's payload bay. During the scheduled 16-day STS-83 mission, the MSL-1 will be used to test some of the hardware, facilities and procedures that are planned for use on the International Space Station while the flight crew conducts combustion, protein crystal growth and materials processing experiments.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is installed into the...

NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is installed into the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia in Orbiter Processing Facility 1. The Spacelab long crew transfer tunnel that leads from the orbiter's crew airlock to the module is also aboard, as well as the Hitchhiker Cryogenic Flexible Diode (CRYOFD) experiment payload, which is attached to the right side of Columbia's payload bay. During the scheduled 16-day STS-83 mission, the MSL-1 will be used to test some of the hardware, facilities and procedures that are planned for use on the International Space Station while the flight crew conducts combustion, protein crystal growth and materials processing experiments.
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Feb 13, 1997

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is installed into the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia in Orbiter Processing Facility 1. The Spacelab long crew transfer tunnel that leads from the orbiter's crew airlock to the module is also aboard, as well as the Hitchhiker Cryogenic Flexible Diode (CRYOFD) experiment payload, which is attached to the right side of Columbia's payload bay. During the scheduled 16-day STS-83 mission, the MSL-1 will be used to test some of the hardware, facilities and procedures that are planned for use on the International Space Station while the flight crew conducts combustion, protein crystal growth and materials processing experiments.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is installed into the...

NASA image: Vice President Pence Visits Marshall Space Flight Center
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Sep 25, 2017

Vice President Pence Visits Marshall Space Flight Center

Air Force Two lands with Vice President Mike Pence along with Congressman Robert Aderholt at the Redstone Army...

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NASA image: ARC-2009-ACD10-0062-012
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Nov 7, 2009

ARC-2009-ACD10-0062-012

STS-131 payload; Ames Space Bio-Sciences Lab, Dr Eduardo Almeida P. I.; Assembly of Space Tissue Loss hardware

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NASA image: ARC-2009-ACD10-0062-019
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Nov 8, 2009

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STS-131 payload; Ames Space Bio-Sciences Lab, Dr Eduardo Almeida P. I.; Assembly of Space Tissue Loss Hardware

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NASA image: ARC-2009-ACD10-0062-008
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Nov 6, 2009

ARC-2009-ACD10-0062-008

STS-131 payload; Ames Space Bio-Sciences Lab, Dr Eduardo Almeida P. I.; Media Bags: part of Space Tissue Loss hardware.

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NASA image: KSC-05-S-00212
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Jul 18, 2005

KSC-05-S-00212

MS. STILSON: Discovery will be carrying several payloads to the International Space Station, including Raffaello,...

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NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The apparatus shown was designed to hold microcapsules for research on mission STS-107. It is one over several included in the Commercial ITA Biomedical Experiments payload. The box was recently recovered during the search for Columbia debris. The drug delivery system and spaceflight hardware was developed jointly by JSC, the Institute for Research Inc. and Instrumentation Technology Associates Inc. to conduct microencapsulation experiments under microgravity conditions.
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May 6, 2003

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The apparatus shown was designed to hold microcapsules for research on mission STS-107. It is one over several included in the Commercial ITA Biomedical Experiments payload. The box was recently recovered during the search for Columbia debris. The drug delivery system and spaceflight hardware was developed jointly by JSC, the Institute for Research Inc. and Instrumentation Technology Associates Inc. to conduct microencapsulation experiments under microgravity conditions.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The apparatus shown was designed to hold microcapsules for research on mission STS-107....

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NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in KSC's Vertical Processing Facility make final adjustments to the Flight Support System (FSS) for STS-82, the second Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. The FSS is reusable flight hardware that provides the mechanical, structural and electrical interfaces between HST, the space support equipment and the orbiter for payload retrieval and on-orbit servicing. Liftoff aboard Discovery is targeted Feb. 11 with a crew of seven.
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Jan 16, 1997

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in KSC's Vertical Processing Facility make final adjustments to the Flight Support System (FSS) for STS-82, the second Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. The FSS is reusable flight hardware that provides the mechanical, structural and electrical interfaces between HST, the space support equipment and the orbiter for payload retrieval and on-orbit servicing. Liftoff aboard Discovery is targeted Feb. 11 with a crew of seven.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in KSC's Vertical Processing Facility make final adjustments to the Flight...

KSC
NASA image: KSC-08pd1991
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Jul 16, 2008

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The first major flight hardware for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to NASA's Hubble...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd2001
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Jul 16, 2008

KSC-08pd2001

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A container with flight hardware for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to NASA's Hubble...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd2002
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Jul 16, 2008

KSC-08pd2002

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A container with flight hardware for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to NASA's Hubble...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd1995
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Jul 16, 2008

KSC-08pd1995

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Canister Rotation Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers steam clean the...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd1994
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Jul 16, 2008

KSC-08pd1994

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Canister Rotation Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers steam clean the...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd1996
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Jul 16, 2008

KSC-08pd1996

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Canister Rotation Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers steam clean the...

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NASA image: KSC-08pd1993
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Jul 16, 2008

KSC-08pd1993

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Canister Rotation Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers steam clean the...

KSC
NASA image: KSC-08pd1999
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Jul 16, 2008

KSC-08pd1999

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Another container with flight hardware for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to NASA's...

KSC
NASA image: KSC-08pd1992
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Jul 16, 2008

KSC-08pd1992

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Canister Rotation Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers steam clean the...

KSC
NASA image: KSC-08pd1998
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Jul 16, 2008

KSC-08pd1998

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A container with flight hardware for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to NASA's Hubble...

KSC
NASA image: KSC-08pd1997
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Jul 16, 2008

KSC-08pd1997

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Canister Rotation Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers steam clean the...

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Yes, most NASA images are in the public domain and are free to use for educational, informational, and personal purposes. NASA's media usage guidelines state that NASA material is not copyrighted unless otherwise noted. However, the NASA logo and certain insignia are protected. Some images may include identifiable individuals or third-party content that requires additional permissions. Always check the specific image's usage rights and credit NASA as the source.
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NASA's Image and Video Library contains over 140,000 publicly accessible images, videos, and audio files spanning the agency's entire history, from the Mercury program of the 1960s to the latest James Webb Space Telescope discoveries. The collection grows daily as new missions capture imagery and archival materials are digitized. Individual mission archives, such as Mars rover photos, contain hundreds of thousands of additional images.
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