Astronauts in Space Operations

Astronauts conducting various tasks aboard spacecraft, using equipment and cameras, highlighting life in microgravity and space exploration.

Man using a reflectometer to test circuit connectors.

S93-E-5011 (23 July 1999) --- Astronaut Steven A. Hawley, mission specialist,looks over a checklist on Columbia'smiddeck during Flight Day 1 activity.The image was recorded with an electronic still camera (ESC).

ISS038-E-031969 (12 Jan. 2014) --- At the windows in the International Space Station's Cupola, NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38 flight engineer, uses a laser range finder during rendezvous, capture and berthing operations with the Orbital Sciences Corp. Cygnus commercial cargo craft.

STS098-352-021 (7-20 February 2001) --- Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, Expedition One flight engineer, photographs astronaut Kenneth D. Cockrell, STS-98 mission commander, using an IMAX camera aboard the newly-attached Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). Krikalev represents Rosaviakosmos.

Mark Nurge, a physicist in Kennedy Space Centers Applied Physics Lab, stands near a laser interferometer, which is used to determine if there are acceptable levels of distortion and imperfections in windows. Nurge recently completed optical metrology testing and evaluation of all flight windows on the Orion capsule for Artemis 1. The interferometer uses a laser source to do wavefront and transmission measurements, as well as evaluation of the color balance. Artemis 1 is an uncrewed flight that will pave the way for future crewed missions and enable future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

PHOTO DATE: 07-13-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 26 crew members Cady Coleman and Dmitri Kondratyev during their docking timeline training.

An intelligence specialist aboard the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) evaluates aerial photographs taken over a target by one of the KENNEDY'S strike aircraft during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Red Sea

Dan Carter and Charles Sisk center a Lysozyme Protein crystal grown aboard the USML-2 shuttle mission. Protein isolated from hen egg-white and functions as a bacteriostatic enzyme by degrading bacterial cell walls. First enzyme ever characterized by protein crystallography. It is used as an excellent model system for better understanding parameters involved in microgravity crystal growth experiments. The goal is to compare kinetic data from microgravity experiments with data from laboratory experiments to study the equilibrium.

Atmospheric Scientist

Man using a reflectometer to test circuit connectors.

PHOTO DATE: 07-13-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 26 crew members Cady Coleman and Dmitri Kondratyev during their docking timeline training.

ISS035-E-018277 (11 April 2013) --- Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield, astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency, installs the redundant Ku Communications 1 unit in Destiny to complete the refurbishment of the Ku system aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn (out of frame), Expedition 35 flight engineer, joined Hadfield for this work.

LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite) Near InfraRed Spectrometer shake test in Ames N-244 high bay EEL Lab - with Kimberly Ennico, Anthony Colaprete and Lynn Hofland

JSC2008-E-033766 (14 April 2008) --- Astronauts Stephen G. Bowen (foreground) and Robert S. (Shane) Kimbrough, both STS-126 mission specialists, use virtual reality hardware in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center to rehearse some of their duties on the upcoming mission to the International Space Station. This type of virtual reality training allows the astronauts to wear special gloves and other gear while looking at computer displays simulating actual movements around the various locations on the station hardware with which they will be working. David J. Homan assisted Bowen and Kimbrough.

PULSE PLASMA THRUSTER TRIPLE LANGMUIR PROBE EQUIPMENT

220720-N-CM812-096Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division Electronic Protection Systems Branch Senior Electronics Engineer Dr. Joseph Friedel prepares a test station for an electromagnetic compatibility radiated immunity test in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Departments Anechoic Chamber, July 20.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - John Cassanto of ITA takes photos of the Growth of Bacterial Biofilm on Surfaces during Spaceflight (GOBBSS) experiment that was carried on mission STS-107 as part of the Commercial ITA Biomedical Experiments payload. He is part of a recovery team transferring experiments to alternate containers. GOBBSS was a Planetary Society-sponsored astrobiology experiment developed by the Israeli Aerospace Medical Institute and the Johnson Space Center Astrobiology Center, with joint participation of an Israeli and a Palestinian student. The recovery team also includes Eran Schenker of the Israeli Aerospace Medical Institute; David Warmflash of JSC, and Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society. The GOBBSS material will be sent to JSC where the science team will analyze the samples, studying the effects of spaceflight on bacterial growth.

MOJAVE DESERT, Calif. - In the Mojave Desert in California, final checkouts are completed on the Garvey Spacecraft Corporation's Prospector P-18D rocket positioned for launch with the RUBICS-1 payload on a high-altitude, suborbital flight. The rocket will carry four satellites made from four-inch cube sections.The rocket reached a peak altitude of about 9,000 feet, however the parachute deployed prematurely and the vehicle continued on its trajectory, coasting and tumbling to a hard landing on its side. In spite of the rough ride, all four CubeSats were recovered. PhoneSat and RUBICS received data in flight, but sustained structural damage. CP-9 and StangSat fared better, and their teams are working to recover as much information as possible. Collectively known as CubeSats, the satellites were designed to record shock, vibrations and heat inside the rocket. The results will be used to prove or strengthen their designs before they are carried into orbit in 2014 on a much larger rocke

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PHOTO DATE: 07-13-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 26 crew members Cady Coleman and Dmitri Kondratyev during their docking timeline training.

An engineer watches robots perform DNA sequencing at a pharmaceutical plant.

Atmospheric Scientist

In the Orbiter Processing Facility, Harrell Watts, with United Space Alliance, removes a tile from the thermal barrier around the umbilical areas, the external tank attach points, on the underside of Atlantis. The umbilical areas are closed off after ET separation by a door, seen here. The exposed area of each closed door is covered with reusable surface insulation.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the News Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Trent Smith of the agency's International Space Station Research and Utilization Office, discusses the Vegetable Production System "VEGGIE" experiment being launched to the ISS. This investigation will focus on the growth and development of "Outredgeous" Lettuce seedlings in the microgravity environment of space and its effects on composition of microbial flora in the Veggie facility. Plans call for lettuce plants to be harvested in-orbit, frozen and returned to the ground for post-flight evaluation.Scheduled for launch on April 14, 2014 atop a Falcon 9 rocket, Dragon spacecraft will be marking its fourth trip to the space station. The SpaceX-3 mission carrying almost 2.5 tons of supplies, technology and science experiments is the third of 12 flights contracted by NASA to resupply the orbiting laboratory.

A student at the Air Training Command undergraduate navigator school takes a reading through a simulated sextant port mounted on the ceiling. Base: Mather Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

An engineer at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) observes a model of the Space Shuttle Orbiter being tested in the MSFC's 14x14-Inch Trisonic Wind Tunnel. The 14-Inch Wind Tunnel is a trisonic wind tunnel. This means it is capable of running subsonic, below the speed of sound; transonic, at or near the speed of sound (Mach 1,760 miles per hour at sea level); or supersonic, greater than Mach 1 up to Mach 5. It is an intermittent blowdown tunnel that operates by high pressure air flowing from storage to either vacuum or atmospheric conditions. The MSFC 14x14-Inch Trisonic Wind Tunnel has been an integral part of the development of the United States space program Rocket and launch vehicles from the Jupiter-C in 1958, through the Saturn family up to the current Space Shuttle and beyond have been tested in this Wind Tunnel. MSFC's 14x14-Inch Trisonic Wind Tunnel, as with most other wind tunnels, is named after the size of the test section. The 14-Inch Wind Tunnel, as in the past, will

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - Jim Kinney, a NASA mentor for the student launch team of the StangSat, works inside the CubeSat lab facility at California Polytechnic Institute, or CalPoly. The payload, which includes sensors and equipment carefully packaged into 4-inch cubes, will ride in the body of a Garvey Spacecraft Corporation's Prospector P-18D rocket during a June 15 launch on a high-altitude, suborbital flight. Known as a CubeSat, the StangSat will record shock, vibrations and heat inside the rocket. It will not be released during the test flight, but the results will be used to prove or strengthen the design before it is carried into orbit in 2014 on a much larger rocket. A new, lightweight carrier is also being tested for use on future missions to deploy the small spacecraft. The flight also is being watched closely as a model for trying out new or off-the-shelf technologies quickly before putting them in the pipeline for use on NASA's largest launchers. Built by several different

$Edward Snell, a National Research Council research fellow at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), prepares a protein crystal for analysis by x-ray crystallography as part of NASA's structural biology program. The small, individual crystals are bombarded with x-rays to produce diffraction patterns, a map of the intensity of the x-rays as they reflect through the crystal.$

CEV model with pressure sensitive paint (PSP) test 11-0148 in the 11ft Ames wind tunnel. Shown here with Danny Ompoc (l), Bruce Stroms (m) and James Bell (r).

Engineer working with robotic equipment in a laboratory office

Gary Hamilton (left) and James Stickley, both with United Space Alliance, check out a spare four-inch diameter LH2 recirculation line that will be used to replace a damaged LH2 line in the orbiter Discovery. The line recirculates hydrogen from the Shuttle main engines back to the external tank during prelaunch engine conditioning. Workers noted a dent in the line during routine aft compartment inspections Tuesday, Dec. 7. The dent measures 12 inches long and about ½-inch deep. Managers expect the replacement work to take about 3 days, followed by system retests and final aft compartment close-outs. Preliminary assessments reflect a launch date of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-103 no earlier than Dec. 16. STS-103 is the third servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope

DATE: 3-15-11LOCATION: Building 9 - ISS MockupSUBJECT: Expedition 28/29 crew members during Docking Timeline Training.

Reportage at ISIR (Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems) in Paris, France. Exoskeleton prototype used for neuro-motor rehabilitation and physical therapy. ABLE is an arm exoskeleton which is in contact with the human arm in multiple locations in order to control joint synergy during hemiplegia rehabilitation.

astronomical observatory telescope indoor night sky

Scientific microscope in professional research laboratory

Middle-aged man looking through telescope

seeing through a telescope

JSC2011-E-028130 (23 March 2011) --- NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson (right background), STS-135 commander; Doug Hurley (center), pilot; and Sandy Magnus, mission specialist, participate in an exercise in the systems engineering simulator in the Avionics Systems Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center. The facility includes moving scenes of full-sized International Space Station components over a simulated Earth.

Crew Exploration Vehicle CEV-26AA with service module in 11_foot NASA Ames Transonic Wind Tunnel with Jesse Carpenter, Planners Inc., Ames Video Crew Test-11-0197

Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) vocalization readouts and sound looked at by Peter Tyack, senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts

JSC2006-E-41640 (25 Sept. 2006) --- Cosmonaut Fyodor N. Yurchikhin, Expedition 15 commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, participates in a camera review training session in the virtual reality lab in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at Johnson Space Center.

Jumping Spider (Phiale formosa) researchers using computer to simulate spider courtship dance, Cincinnati, Ohio

JSC2002-E-30478 (29 July 2002) --- Astronauts Jeffrey S. Ashby (left) and David A. Wolf, STS-112 mission commander and mission specialist, respectively, inspect flight hardware during a crew equipment bench review in an offsite facility near the Johnson Space Center (JSC).

Armstrong videographer Mike Agnew operates spectrograph instrument on the 20th to prepare for eclipse day, the 21st.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- STS-107 Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, of Israel, trains on equipment in the training module at SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral. Ramon and other crew members Commander Rick D. Husband, Pilot William C. McCool, Payload Commander Michael P. Anderson; and Mission Specialists Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Blair Salton Clark and David M. Brown are at SPACEHAB to take part in Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) activities. The CEIT enables the crew to perform certain flight operations, operate experiments in a flight-like environment, evaluate stowage locations and obtain additional exposure to specific experiment operations. As a research mission, STS-107 will carry the SPACEHAB Double Module in its first research flight into space and a broad collection of experiments ranging from material science to life science. STS-107 is scheduled for launch May 23, 2002

Stephen Dalton With Butterfly And Hi-Speed Photography Setup In Studio

NASA Physical Oceanography Program Scientist Eric Lindstrom inspects an autonomous wave glider onboard the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research vessel Knorr on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, in Woods Hole, Mass. The autonomous gliders will be deployed in the Atlantic Ocean as part of the Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS) which is set to sail on Sept. 6. The NASA-sponsored expedition will sail to the North Atlantic's saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean's upper layers and how these variations are related to shifts in rainfall patterns around the planet.

PHOTO DATE: 05-03-13LOCATION: Bldg. 16, DomeSUBJECT: Expedition 39/40 and Soyuz 38 crew member Steve Swanson during ROBO T&C refresher class.

Matt Stinemetze, test pilot for Scaled Composites, sits in the simulator for White Knight II and SpaceShipTwo, which he helped designed and build with Peter Siebold. He was the co-pilot of White Knight in the X-Prize flight and was responsible for pulling the control which released SpaceShipOne from the mother ship. Scaled Composites is a small but well-known experimental aircraft design and manufacturing company founded by Burt Rutan, located in Mojave, California.

Robert Youngquist, Ph.D., tests a sample disk with a "Solar White" cryogenic selective surface coating with a flash light, demonstrating the coatings reflective properties. The innovative coating is predicted to reflect more than 99.9 percent of the simulated solar infrared radiation. This technology could enable storing super-cold, or cryogenic, liquids and support systems that shield astronauts against radiation during the Journey to Mars.

PHOTO DATE: 11-03-10LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - TPST Training AreaSUBJECT: STS-335 crew training, EVA TPS Overview with instructor John RayWORK ORDER: 03247-BS__STS335TILEREPAIR_11-03-10

PHOTO DATE: 11-27-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 40 crew members (Soyuz 39) Reid Wiseman and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst with Soyuz 38 crew member Steve Swanson during ROUTINE OPS MS 1

Buzz Aldrin Piloting X-48B

A Virginia student works with a bottle and its cap in a mockup of the Middeck Glovebox used by astronauts on a number of space shuttle research missions. The activity was part of the Space Research and You education event held by NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research on June 25, 2002, in Arlington, VA, to highlight the research that will be conducted on STS-107.

Close-up of a theodolite

Artist Photographer in Dark Room & Studio Portrait photographic artist inside his studio and darkroom with his vintage Durst Magnifier and Optical Printer to Process Analog Photography and Analog Photographic Images. Tilburg, Netherlands. MRYES Tilburg Carre 28 Noord-Brabant Nederland Copyright: xGuidoxKoppesx

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A member of the Columbia Reconstruction Project team photographs a piece of Columbia debris delivered to the RLV Hangar. Shipped from Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport, La., more than 70,000 items, weighing 78,000 pounds, about 36 percent of the Shuttle by weight, have been delivered to KSC for use in the mishap investigation. Ground teams have completed 78 percent of their primary search area, and airborne crews finished 80 percent of their assigned area. Search teams have completed 98 percent of the underwater searches in Lake Nacogdoches and Toledo Bend Reservoir.

A pilot trains in an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft simulator. Base: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base State: Ohio (OH) Country: United States Of America (USA)

'Life from other Worlds' with McNair Middle School TROV robot explores under Antarctic ice - image of Bob Hines controlling the TROV

H. Julian 'Harvey' Allen in front of the NASA Ames 8_x_7 foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel test section. A blunt body model mounted in the test section is ready for testing . The 8_X_7_foot is part of the Unitary Plan WInd Tunnel Complex Note printed in 60 year at NASA Ames Research Center by Glenn Bugos NASA SP-2000-4314

Photographer Stephen Dalton with butterfly

Benjamin Reed (right), deputy program manager of NASAs Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office, shows Dr. Holdren the technologies that NASA is developing for the Restore-L satellite servicing mission. NASA will launch the Restore-L servicer in 2020 to refuel a live satellite and demonstrate that a suite of satellite-servicing technologies are operational. More info Asteroid Redirect Mission Update - On Sept. 14, 2016, NASA provided an update on the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) and how it contributes to the agencys journey to Mars and protection of Earth. The presentation took place in the Robotic Operations Center at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Dr. John P. Holdren, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and NASAs ARM Program Director, Dr. Michele Gates discussed the latest update regarding the mission. They explained the missions scientific and technological benefits and how ARM will demonstrate tec

Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and P.I. at NASA Ames Research Center Dana Lynch looking at Total Luminance Photometer lens durnig shake testing in the EEL laboratory.

Janis Niedra (RPT/Thermal Energy Conversion Branch) is using a Helmholtz coil to measure the approximate remanence of a magnet segment. The magnet segment being measured is similar to the ones used in the linear alternator of the Advanced Stirling Convertor (ASC) which was designed and built by Sunpower, Inc. The magnet (not shown in this view) is positioned in the slot cut along the top of the aluminum block which is positioned at the center of the coil in the region of uniform sensitivity. The ASC is the type of free-piston Stirling convertor that is used in the Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator (ASRG) currently being developed by Lockheed-Martin for the Department of Energy and NASA.

Stardust sample analysis @ UC Berkeley clean room - mission samples provided to UC Berkeley for analysis by NASA Dr Andrew Westphal, Berkeley Physicist with Dr Scott Sandford, NASA Ames Astrophysicist holding a (aerogel) sample (Dr Sandford reports that 'My Colleagues Andrew Westphal, Christopher Snead and Zack Gainsforth have produced over 100 keystones from the Stardust comet aerogel

CLV ascent model test 11-0179 11ft. supersonic wind tunnel with Amela Zanacic removal of model

Dr. Richard Grugel, a materials scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Ala., examines the furnace used to conduct his Pore Formation and Mobility Investigation -- one of the first two materials science experiments to be conducted on the International Space Station. This experiment studies materials processes similar to those used to make components used in jet engines. Grugel's furnace was installed in the Microgravity Science Glovebox through the circular port on the side. In space, crewmembers are able to change out samples using the gloves on the front of the facility's work area.

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Flexible Canopy Test

NASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via sophisticated new telescopes. The Optics Center's goal is to develop low-cost, advanced space optics technologies to the NASA program in the 21st century - including the long-term goal of imaging Earth-like planets in distant solar systems. To reduce the cost of mirror fabrication, Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has developed replication techniques, the machinery, and materials to replicate electro-formed nickel mirrors. The process allows fabricating precisely shaped mandrels to be used and reused as masters for replicating high-quality mirrors. Photograph shows J.R. Griffith inspecting a replicated x-ray mirror mandrel.

Middle aged caucasian rocket scientist standing in front of astronomy drawings on wall department of rocket science

Crew Module Water Landing Model Assessment (CMWLMA)Test site photos at Aberdeen Test Center Aberdeen Maryland

STS079-365-009 (16-26 Sept. 1996) --- Astronaut Thomas D. Akers, mission specialist, continues his busy task of supply transfer. Akers referred to this corner of the Spacehab Module as "transfer headquarters," where he was responsible for keeping up with a large supply of food, batteries, flight gear and a number of other supplies. This flight marked the first for the double module Spacehab configuration.

Yuri's Night at Ames a celebration of the first human in space. Overview of hyperwall by Chris Henze, NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division

Reportage on the E-nable project. The project concept is to put volunteers with a 3D printer in touch with handicapped children who need a hand prosthesis. E-nable puts a website at the users disposal which allows the dimensions of the prosthesis, as well as the design the child wishes for, to be uploaded. The volunteers deal with printing and assembly of the prosthesis. The 3D plans for the prosthesis are open source which means everyone has access to them and can improve them. The prosthesis is printed and sent free of charge. Thierry joined the community of volunteers in 2014. He received his first request for a prosthesis from a 5-year old girl who lives in England. He is working on producing the prosthesis.

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ANDRÉ PASEUR (WELD TECHNICIAN, JACOBS ESTS GROUP/ERC) DISPLAYS A HEXAGON THAT WAS FABRICATED FROM FRICTION STIR WELDED PLATES OF 6AL-4V TITANIUM (ELI) USING THERMAL STIR WELDING. THIS WORK WAS PERFORMED FOR A NASA TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER INDUSTRIAL PARTNER (KEYSTONE SYNERGETIC ENTERPRISES, INC.) IN SUPPORT OF A PROJECT FOR THE U.S. NAVY

Views of Sen. Jake Garn and Charles Walker during STS-51B, Medical Experiment Training, 1-G Trainer, Bldg. 9A. 1. Senator Jake Garn - STS-51B Training 2. Charles Walker - STS-51B Training JSC, Houston, TX

Astronaut Christina Koch assists with a hardware upgrade for NASA's Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station in January 2020.

Octavia Spencer, who portrays Dorothy Vaughan in the upcoming motion picture "Hidden Figures," looks through a periscope in the blockhouse at Launch Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The pad which was the location of the launch of John Glenn and three other astronauts who flew orbital missions during Project Mercury. The movie is based on the book of the same title, by Margot Lee Shetterly. It chronicles the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, three African-American women who worked for NASA as human "computers. Their mathematical calculations were crucial to the success of Project Mercury missions including Glenn’s orbital flight aboard Friendship 7 in 1962. The film is due in theaters in January 2017.

Low-boom Model Mach II in Unitary Tunnel with Christine Darden

CLV (Crew Launch Vehicle) model test in the 11x11ft. W.T. Test-11-0152 with Steve Bucholz

man and lenses

Assembly of a 20kW Electric Kokomotor for the SUbsonic Single Aft eNgine, SUSAN, 25% Flight Research Vehicle. Assembly of a 20kW Electric Kokomotor for the SUbsonic Single Aft eNgine, SUSAN, 25% Flight Research Vehicle

Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and P.I. at NASA Ames Research Center Dana Lynch looking at Total Luminance Photometer lens durnig shake testing in the EEL laboratory.

Cynthia Goldsmith, a CDC research biologist and electron microscopist, is sitting in front of a transmission electron microscope. During the last 20 years at CDC, Ms. Goldsmith's work as an electron microscopist has repeatedly played a key role in the rapid identification of emerging pathogens, including hantavirus, Nipah virus, and SARS-coronavirus. Photo by James Gathany.

Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments, Engineering Model, EM, E-Field Subassembly; ACME EM Cube Subassembly

DF-ST-87-12360. Subject Operation/Series: RECONNAISSANCE AIR MEET '86 Base: Bergstrom Air Force Base State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Europe, Germany, Rhineland Palatinate, Mature man looking through theodolite

STS-34 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Pilot Michael J. McCulley squints while looking through ARRIFLEX camera eye piece during camera briefing at JSC. McCulley rests part of the camera on his shoulder as he operates it.

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REASSEMBLY OF DUCT LAB SWT MACH 4-5 NOZZLE WITH MACH 2.0 INJECTION

Using the Solar Vector Magnetograph, a solar observation facility at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), scientists from the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) in Huntsville, Alabama, are monitoring the explosive potential of magnetic areas of the Sun. This effort could someday lead to better prediction of severe space weather, a phenomenon that occurs when blasts of particles and magnetic fields from the Sun impact the magnetosphere, the magnetic bubble around the Earth. When massive solar explosions, known as coronal mass ejections, blast through the Sun's outer atmosphere and plow toward Earth at speeds of thousands of miles per second, the resulting effects can be harmful to communication satellites and astronauts outside the Earth's magnetosphere. Like severe weather on Earth, severe space weather can be costly. On the ground, magnetic storms wrought by these solar particles can knock out electric power. Photographed are a group of contributing researcher

In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1, STS-96 Mission Specialist Julie Payette, with the Canadian Space Agency, maneuvers a foot restraint used during space walks. The STS-96 crew is at KSC to take part in a Crew Equipment Interface Test. The other crew members are Commander Kent V. Rominger, Pilot Rick Douglas Husband and Mission Specialists Ellen Ochoa (Ph.D.), Tamara E. Jernigan (Ph.D.), Daniel Barry (M.D., Ph.D.), and Valery Ivanovich Tokarev, who represents the Russian Space Agency. The primary payload of STS-96 is the SPACEHAB Double Module. In addition, the Space Shuttle will carry unpressurized cargo such as the external Russian cargo crane known as STRELA; the Spacehab Oceaneering Space System Box (SHOSS), which is a logistics items carrier; and an ORU Transfer Device (OTD), a U.S.-built crane that will be stowed on the station for use during future ISS assembly missions. These cargo items will be stowed on the International Cargo Carrier, fitted inside the payload bay behi

Instrument maker dismounting a saxophone during a repair

. Patrick Chan, electronics engineer, and NASA Armstrongs FOSS portfolio project manager, closely examines an optic fiber inside of a protective sleeve. Armstrongs Fiber Optic Sensing System recently supported tests in which oxygen was turned into liquid oxygen at minus 297 degrees Fahrenheit. Testing was aimed at developing technologies could allow future astronauts to manufacture rocket fuel on the Moon.

Mars Science Laboratory, MSL, Rotor Dynamics Model Analysis

Man looking through spyglasses

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - John Grotzinger, project scientist for Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., demonstrates the operation of MSL's rover, Curiosity, during a science briefing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, part of preflight activities for the MSL mission. Michael Malin, principal investigator for the Mast Camera and Mars Descent Imager investigations on Curiosity from Malin Space Science Systems, looks on at right.MSLs components include a car-sized rover, Curiosity, which has 10 science instruments designed to search for signs of life, including methane, and help determine if the gas is from a biological or geological source. Launch of MSL aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled for Nov. 26 from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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