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Test tubes to hold different types of fluids while in free-fall were among the student-designed items for the second...
Colored oil flow toy was part of a student-designed apparatus used in the second Dropping in a Microgravity...
Student-designed and -built apparatus for the second Dropping in a Microgravity Environment (DIME) competition held...
iss071e403564 (July 22, 2024) --- (From left) NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Mike Barratt, both Expedition 71...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, an overhead crane lowers the external...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, an overhead crane moves the external stowage...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, workers are ready to attach the overhead...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, the external stowage platform 3 is ready to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, workers check the placement of the external...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, an overhead crane moves into place above the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, workers maneuver an overhead crane lowering...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The orbiter Ku-band antenna looms large in this view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis'...
Titan Cassini Remote Sensing Platform installation in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility
Titan Cassini Remote Sensing Platform installation in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility
iss048e050816 (8/5/2016) --- A view of the NanoRacks External Platform (NREP), containing the NanoRacks-Gumstix and...
In the late 1970s, NASA, the Marshall Space Flight Center, and its contractors began focusing on designs for...
Orbiter Processing Facility High Bay No. 3, 13 platforms and payload bay, looking northeast, July 31, 2006
iss042e015943 (11/26/2014) --- Commander Barry Wilmore unpacks the Cyclops launch platform for installation on the...
jsc2022e072966 (8/12/2022) --- A view of the OVOSPACE payload during a functional test. The science of the payload...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Hubble Space Telescope Orbiting Systems Test Platform (HOST) is lifted off its...
iss048e049789 (8/5/2016) --- A view of the NanoRacks External Platform (NREP) grappled by the Japanese Experiment...
iss048e049803 (8/5/2016) --- The Japanese Experiment Module Remote Manipulator System (JEMRMS) moves to install the...
Airbus workers unpack the Bartolomeo platform in the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at NASA’s Kennedy...
Airbus workers unpack the Bartolomeo platform in the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at NASA’s Kennedy...