Nuclear Testing And Equipment

Historical images related to nuclear testing, featuring various experimental setups and equipment in test facilities in Nevada and Texas.

Young female scientist working at biological laboratory pushing trolley
Young female scientist working at biological laboratory pushing trolley
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JSC2004-E-37689 (18 August 2004) --- Astronaut Steven W. Lindsey, STS-121 commander, uses a climbing apparatus to lower himself from a simulated trouble-plagued shuttle in an emergency egress training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Lindsey is wearing a training version of the shuttle launch and entry suit. United Space Alliance (USA) crew trainer David Pogue assisted Lindsey.
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XV-5A airplane installed in 40x80ft Subsonic Wind Tunnel at NASA Ames Research Center with Tom Mills. The propulsive lift system was tested to determine power-on performance characteristics in preparation for flight tests.
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VANDENBERG AFB, Calif.-- Technicians position the transport container with NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission, or LDCM, satellite at the prelaunch processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.The Landsat Data Continuity Mission LDCM is the future of Landsat satellites. It will continue to obtain valuable data and imagery to be used in agriculture, education, business, science, and government. The Landsat Program provides repetitive acquisition of high resolution multispectral data of the Earth's surface on a global basis. The data from the Landsat spacecraft constitute the longest record of the Earth's continental surfaces as seen from space. It is a record unmatched in quality, detail, coverage, and value. Launch is planned for Feb. 11, 2013.
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VANDENBERG AFB, Calif.-- Technicians monitor activity as the transport container delivering NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission, or LDCM, satellite is lowered to the floor at the prelaunch processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.The Landsat Data Continuity Mission LDCM is the future of Landsat satellites. It will continue to obtain valuable data and imagery to be used in agriculture, education, business, science, and government. The Landsat Program provides repetitive acquisition of high resolution multispectral data of the Earth's surface on a global basis. The data from the Landsat spacecraft constitute the longest record of the Earth's continental surfaces as seen from space. It is a record unmatched in quality, detail, coverage, and value. Launch is planned for Feb. 11, 2013.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Bob Cabana talks to a guest about the Mercury Project's Atlas rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building. At the space center in Florida, Cabana is helping John Glenn mark the 50th anniversary of being the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth inside the NASA Mercury Project's Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn later returned to space in October 1998 as a payload specialist aboard space shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission. Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apol
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N-258 NAS (Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation) Faciltiy, Aerials of Construction Site, Framing
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NASA Langley engineer, Clinton Duncan maintains controls of the tethered Multi Mission Earth Entry Vehicle model while being tested in the Vertical Spin Tunnel.
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Rover-team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., check slight movements by a test rover during tests simulating the challenge of getting NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit out of a sand trap on Mars.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At Astrotech in Titusville, Fla., workers prepare forward fifth segment simulator of the Ares I-X for cork application. Ares I-X is the test vehicle for the Ares I, which is part of the Constellation Program to return men to the moon and beyond. Ares I is the essential core of a safe, reliable, cost-effective space transportation system that eventually will carry crewed missions back to the moon, on to Mars and out into the solar system. Ares I may also use its 25-ton payload capacity to deliver resources and supplies to the International Space Station, or to "park" payloads in orbit for retrieval by other spacecraft bound for the moon or other destinations. The Ares I-X is targeted for launch in July 2009.
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HAMPTON, Va. - NASA technician Ricky Hall works inside the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia to affix grains of sand to a precise scale model of the Dream Chaser spacecraft. Sierra Nevada Corporation is developing the Dream Chaser in partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The sand creates turbulence at key points to simulate the conditions the real spacecraft will encounter during its return to Earth. The data gathered from the wind tunnel was used to further test the design through the company's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability agreement with NASA.
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A820769 U12N HURON LANDING ALCOVE 1-7 EXTRA SUPPORTS BURKE, MIKE MAY 26 82 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 5/26/1982 ALCOVE 1-7; BURKE, MIKE; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EXTRA SUPPORTS; HURON LANDING TEST; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; SUPPORTS; TEST SITES; TESTING; U12N; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPON EFFECTS; WEAPONS RELATED; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY; WIRE & CABLES; WIRES; U12N ALCOVE 1-7 EXTRA SUPPORTS historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Two laser engineering technicians conduct an experiment with an electric discharge laser beam in the laser laboratory of the Air Force Weapons Laboratory. The lasers are used in laboratory experiments to determine the laser interaction with various types of materials. Base: Kirtland Air Force Base State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Yuri's Night at Ames a celebration of the first human in space
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Thermal Protection System Facility NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, agency astronaut candidates are briefed on thermal blankets being manufactured for agency spacecraft. Looking at sample thermal blankets are, from the left, Nicole Mann, Andrew Morgan, Christina Hammock, Josh Cassada, Jessica Meir, Tyler Nick’ Hague, and Anne McClain. Plans call for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Exploration Flight Test EFT-1 later this year. The astronaut class of 2013 was selected by NASA after an extensive year-and-a-half search. The new group will help the agency push the boundaries of exploration and travel to new destinations in the solar system.
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12/20/2011 Madrid. Equipment to make magnetic resonances. Christmas memories. Reina Sofía Alzheimer Foundation. Photo. Isabel Permuy ARCHDC.
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Interior view of the Thermal Ptroctection System facility
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National Lab Day
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Common Chimpanzee in a research laboratory in Japan
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Testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in August 2009 is assessing possible maneuvers that the Mars rover Spirit might use for escaping from a patch of soft soil where it is embedded at a Martian site called 'Troy.'
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The grid on the floor of the RLV Hangar is filling up with pieces of Columbia debris that have been collected by workers in the field. The blue lines reflect the outline of the orbiter. The Columbia Reconstruction Project Team is attempting to reconstruct the bottom of the orbiter as part of the investigation into the accident that caused the destruction of Columbia and loss of its crew as it returned to Earth on mission STS-107. To date, more than 35,000 pieces have been shipped to KSC; at least 1,218 are identified.
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Group of young medical students doing research together in chemistry laboratory,teamwork by college student indoors
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X-59 Low Boom Flight Demonstrator, LBFD Probe Calibration Test
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Juno testing in Glenn Extreme Environments Rig, GEER Laboratory. Juno testing in Glenn Extreme Environments Rig, GEER Laboratory. Juno is a solar-powered NASA spacecraft that spans the width of a basketball court and makes long, looping orbits around giant planet Jupiter
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Inspection tour of NASA installations: Houston, Texas, NASA Rich Building, departure, 11:10AM. White House Secret Service agent, Arthur L. Art Godfrey, crouches on the stairs to view a mock-up of an Apollo command module, during President John F. Kennedys visit to the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. President Kennedy visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- United Space Alliance technician Don Pataky prepares to enter a tented area around the external tank of Space Shuttle Discovery in order to repair hail-inflicted damage in the foam insulation. The Shuttle was rolled back from Pad 39B to the Vehicle Assemby Building for repairs because access to all of the damaged areas was not possible at the pad. The work is expected to take two to three days, allowing Discovery to roll back to the pad late this week for launch of mission STS-96, the 94th launch in the Space Shuttle Program. Liftoff will occur no earlier than May 27. STS-96 is a logistics and resupply mission for the International Space Station, carrying such payloads as a Russian crane, the Strela; a U.S.-built crane; the Spacehab Oceaneering Space System Box (SHOSS), a logistics items carrier; and STARSHINE, a student-shared experiment
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X-59 Low Boom Flight Demonstrator, LBFD Probe Calibration Test
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Chemistry Laboratory for water testing, nuclear bunker, Kall-Urft, Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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Interior view of the Space Station Processing Facility
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Michel Fornasier will be one of the presenters of the Cybathlon. He has a bionic hand prosthesis and demonstrates one of the Cybathlon disciplines for the media. It took Michel more than a year to master the use of his bionic hand.
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Mars Exploration Rover team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., prepare an experiment on July 13, 2009, for assessing how a test rover moves when embedded in loose soil and commanded to drive backward with wheels turned.
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NASA astronaut gym, circa mid 1960's, NASA Johnson Space Center, formerly the Manned Spacecraft Center.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overview of the RLV Hangar floor shows pieces of Columbia that have been identified and placed within the outline of the orbiter. The Columbia Reconstruction Project Team is attempting to reconstruct the bottom of the orbiter as part of the investigation into the accident that caused the destruction of Columbia and loss of its crew as it returned to Earth on mission STS-107.
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AiroCide Ti02, an anthrax-killing air scrubber manufactured by KES Science and Technology Inc., in Kernesaw, Georgia, looks like a square metal box when it is installed on an office wall. Its fans draw in airborne spores and airflow forces them through a maze of tubes. Inside, hydroxyl radicals (OH-) attack and kill pathogens. Most remaining spores are destroyed by high-energy ultraviolet photons. Building miniature greenhouses for experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) has led to the invention of this device that annihilates anthrax-a bacteria that can be deadly when inhaled. The research enabling the invention started at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) Center for Space Automation and Robotics (WCSAR), one of 17 NASA Commercial Space Centers. A special coating technology used in the anthrax-killing invention is also being used inside WCSAR-built plant growth units on the ISS. This commercial research is managed by the Space Product Development Program at the Marsha
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The vehicle carrying the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) arrives at the Multi-Payload Processing Facility. The primary payload on mission STS-99, the SRTM consists of a specially modified radar system that will fly onboard the Space Shuttle during the 11-day mission scheduled for September 1999. This radar system will gather data that will result in the most accurate and complete topographic map of the Earth's surface that has ever been assembled. SRTM is an international project spearheaded by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency and NASA, with participation of the German Aerospace Center DLR. Its objective is to obtain the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of the Earth
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Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana (center pointing to the left) provides a tour for cast and crew members of the upcoming motion picture "Hidden Figures." The group is walking thought the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building. 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 John Glenn’s orbital flight aboard Friendship 7 in 1962. The film is due in theaters in January 2017.
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S125-E-009190 (17 May 2009) --- A computer monitor showing animation of an extravehicular activity (EVA) is visible in this image photographed by a STS-125 crewmember in a darkened flight deck on the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis.
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A technician standing next to a crash test car
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Dr Steven Senger and Alexander Kwombly at Immersive Workbench N-239 Rm160 with human head (skull) to simulate reconstructive surgery
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Barbie Doll testing.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A fish-eye view in the RLV Hangar shows the growing number of pieces of Columbia debris shipped from Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, La. Barksdale continues to be the receiving and shipping point for Columbia materials being sent to KSC for final identification. The Columbia Reconstruction Project Team is attempting to reconstruct the orbiter as part of the investigation into the accident that caused the destruction of Columbia and loss of its crew as it returned to Earth on mission STS-107.
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A person photographing a crime scene
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Nolii: Benjamin Hubert and LAYER at London Design Festival 2017. London Design Festival 2017, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Various architects, 2018.
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0.4 Percent Scale Space Launch System Wind Tunnel Test 0.4 Percent Scale SLS model installed in the NASA Langley Research Center Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel Test Section 1 for aerodynamic force and movement testing.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the RLV Hangar at KSC, pieces of debris from Columbia lie across the grid on the floor. Members of the Columbia Restoration Project Team are examining pieces and attempting to reconstruct the orbiter as part of the investigation into the accident that caused the destruction of Columbia on its return to Earth from mission STS-107. To date, four shipments have arrived from Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, La., the collection point for debris.
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Artist's concept depicting the floor plan of the Crew Reception Area of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL), bldg 37.
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Scientist in the cold room at 4 degrees in the genetic engineering department in the faculty of biology at the University of Duisburg-Essen