Scientific Research Environments

Images depict scientists engaged in various research activities including data analysis, laboratory work, and collaborative discussions in professional settings.

Vintage Photograph. Researcher using advanced electron microscope in laboratory setting.
Vintage Photograph. Researcher using advanced electron microscope in laboratory setting.
142 assets in this story
6145-58962440
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Excitement builds among the news media gathered in the NASA Newsroom the night before launch. The countdown for the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on Return to Flight mission STS-114 is under way for an anticipated liftoff at 3 51 p.m. EDT July 13. During its 12-day mission, Discoverys seven-person crew will test new hardware and techniques to improve Shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies to the International Space Station.
6145-44740189
Ames Aerospace Encounter (AAE) Dedication and Ribbon Cutting with Dale Compton, (Larry Milov and R. Dean in background)
6145-44540472
61A-S-016 (30 Oct 1985) --- Standing near their pre-flight breakfast table are the eight crewmembers for the STS 61-A/Spacelab D1 mission. L.-R., Guion S. Bluford, Wubbo J. Ockels, Steven R. Nagel, Henry W. Hartsfield, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Ernst Messerschmid, Reinhard Furrer and James F. Buchli, discuss their upcoming week in space.
6145-44879725
Bill Nye and Dr. Jim Garvin at the Science on a Sphere during a tour of Goddard Space Flight Center on September 8, 2011
6145-58962017
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Gathered in the NASA News Center, the media ask Public Information Officer Bruce Buckingham about the landing of Space Shuttle Discovery at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Due to weather concerns, the landing was deferred to the alternate site. The 13-day, 21-hour Return to Flight STS-114 mission ended on Runway 22 at 8 11 22 a.m. EDT with Mission Commander Eileen Collins on the controls. Discovery spent two weeks in space, where the crew demonstrated new methods to inspect and repair the Shuttle in orbit. The crew also delivered supplies, outfitted and performed maintenance on the International Space Station. A number of these tasks were conducted during three spacewalks.
6145-44742265
1996 'STELLAR' program commencement with special guest Mrs. Gayle Wilson (CA governor's wife) as she tours the STELLAR project displays with STELLAR students and teachers
6145-45241028
DC-8 (NASA-717) Onboard experiment analysis Antarctic Ozone Experiment
6145-44736971
Jules Bergman, ABC Science Newscaster stands by a NASA Ames press room for the continuing information being returned by the Pioneer spacecraft during it's encounter with the planet Saturn and it's rings.
6145-44573361
In the KSC Life Sciences Building, Hangar L, Cape Canaveral Air Station, Mark Rupert, with BioServe Space Technologies, checks the canisters, or incubators, that will hold an experiment to fly on mission STS-93. The incubators will hold a mix of fruit fly embryos and larvae to examine the effects of microgravity and space flight on the development of neural connections between specific motor neurons and their targets in muscle fibers. The incubators are part of a Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA), which can start bioprocessing reactions by mixing or heating a sample and can also initiate multiple-step, sequential reactions in a technique called phased processing. The primary payload of mission STS-93 is the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which will allow scientists from around the world to see previously invisible black holes and high-temperature gas clouds, giving the observatory the potential to rewrite the books on the structure and evolution of our universe. The target
6145-44542259
NASA Staff Dr.Darden, Matthew Overhold, Kathy Needleman, Robert Mack.Mach 3 Sonic Boom Model Wind Tunnel
6145-54368809
Volcanoes - After Mount St. Helens Eruption - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
6145-44532582
NASA Director Sean O'Keefe comes to Ames for employee briefing and tour. On tour in ATC labs , briefing by Dr. Heinz Erzberger
6145-44566676
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-95 Payload Specialist John Glenn, who is a senator from Ohio, looks over documentation under the watchful eyes of KSC workers during SPACEHAB familiarization at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility, Cape Canaveral. The mission, scheduled to launch Oct. 29, includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process
6145-44514767
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Astronaut John Herrington (right) helps Norm Abram try on a tool carrier used in space. Abram is the master carpenter on televisions "This Old House." He is at KSC to film an episode of the series
6145-45231089
University of Alabama engineer Stacey Giles briefs NASA astronaut Dr. Bornie Dunbar about the design and capabilities of the X-ray Crystallography Facility under development at the Center for Macromolecular Crystallography of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, April 21, 1999. The X-ray Crystallography Facility is designed to speed the collection of protein structure information from crystals grown aboard the International Space Station. By measuring and mapping the protein crystal structure in space, researchers will avoid exposing the delicate crystals to the rigors of space travel and make important research data available to scientists much faster. The X-ray Crystallography facility is being designed and developed by the Center for Macromolecular Crystallography of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a NASA Commercial Space Center.
6145-44600606
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, the processing team applaud the successful power-up of the orbiter Discovery. The vehicle has been undergoing Orbiter Major Modifications in the past year, ranging from wiring, control panels and black boxes to gaseous and fluid systems tubing and components. These systems were deserviced, disassembled, inspected, modified, reassembled, checked out and reserviced, as were most other systems onboard. The work includes the installation of the Multifunction Electronic Display Subsystem (MEDS) - a state-of-the-art glass cockpit.”
6145-44722149
S85-40172 (5 Sept. 1985) --- Astronauts Ronald E. McNair (left), mission specialist, and Michael J. Smith, pilot, talk about their upcoming space mission in JSC's astronaut office. SINCE THIS
6145-44552572
Apollo 7 Commander Walter M. "Wally" Schirra and his wife, Josephine, were among the many special NASA STS-83 launch guests who witnessed the liftoff of the Space Shuttle Columbia April 4 at the Banana Creek VIP Viewing Site at KSC. Columbia took off from Launch Pad 39A at 2:20:32 p.m. EST to begin the 16-day Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) mission
6145-45141678
work order 153425Solar Eclipse at JPL 21 Aug, 2017photog: Dutch Slager
6145-48809070
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference
6177-V53837855
6145-45240019
SL3-111-1519 (6 Aug. 1973) --- Scientist-astronaut Owen K. Garriott, Skylab 3 science pilot, reconstitutes a pre-packaged container of food at the crew quarters ward room table of the Orbital Workshop (OWS) of the Skylab Space Station cluster. This picture was taken with a hand-held 35mm Nikon camera. Astronauts Garriott, Alan L. Bean and Jack R. Lousma remained with the Skylab Space Station in Earth orbit for a total of 59 days conducting numerous medical, scientific and technological experiments. Note the knife and fork on the food tray and the utensil with which Garriott stirs the food mixed with water. Skylab is the first manned space program by NASA which affords the crew men an opportunity to eat with the same type utensils used on Earth.
6145-44511717
JSC2000-E-26589 (October 2000) --- Astronauts Michael J. Bloomfield (left), STS-97 pilot, looks on as astronautMarc Garneau, mission specialist representing the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), rehearses assigned duties for the upcoming Endeavour mission. The training took place in the Johnson Space Center's virtual reality laboratory.
6145-44582303
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Pete Engel, an engineering specialist in Wyle Laboratory's Nondestructive Testing Laboratory at KSC, explains the testing being performed on a 100-pound Mundrabilla meteorite sample. The one-of-a-kind meteorite was found 36 years ago in Australia and is on loan to Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Dr. Donald Gillies, discipline scientist for materials science at MSFC's Microgravity Science and Applications Department, is the Principal Investigator. The studies may help provide the science community and industry with fundamental knowledge for use in the design of advanced materials.
6145-44889136
Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Sergei Revin performs the tradition of signing one of the doors at the Cosmonaut Hotel on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft with Revin, Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, and NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba aboard launched at 9:01 a.m. Kazakhstan time on Tuesday, May 15.
6145-44671435
Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Deser , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education department personnel Brian Day, Barbara Bazar and a accompaning (learning for the the classroom) team of teachers will be studying side-by-side with NASA scientists who search for life in extreme environments, closely approximating what they expect to find on other planets. Why the Mojave -- an inhospitable, sun-drenched spot in the California Desert This natural setting presents scientists with opportunities to study environments that are analogous to what explorers will find on the Moon and Mars. Teachers and scientists will perform scientific fieldwork in lunar geology, Mars astrobiology, Mars geology, and issues of temperature and solar inundation and radiation. for additional information and Outreach projects see http //quest.arc.nasa.gov/
6145-44541202
S88-52470 (8 Nov 1988) --- James P. Bagian, STS-29 mission specialist, gets in some training on the operation of one of the payloads for his upcoming spaceflight aboard Discovery. The crew met with Imax personnel, some of whom are pictured here, on the JSC grounds to practice using the motion-picture camera, making its first post-Challenger trip into space. The payload flew on a number of earlier STS flights.
6145-45245388
Glovebox Systems Engineer, Sam Ortega, explains how the microgravity glovebox works to 2 young MSFC Open House visitors.
6145-45244597
Marshall's fifth Center Director, James R. Thompson (1986-1989), in the control room of the Solid Rocket Booster (SRB)automated thermal protection system (TPS) removal facility. Under Dr. Thompson's leadership, the shuttle program was rekindled after the Challenger explosion. Return to Flight kept NASA 's future programs alive.
6145-48809075
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference
6223-66640171
Van Sant, creator of the GeoSphere Project, the first electronic, cloud-free, 3D mosaic of Earth composed of thousands of satellite images. Tom Van Sant is a sculptor, painter, and conceptual artist. In his professional work he has executed over sixty major sculpture and mural commissions for public spaces around the world. His professional skills and intellectual interests range to architectural design, city planning, art education and advanced technical invention. His large scale conceptual art projects of the 1980s led to the creation of The GeoSphere Project, an ambitious environmental display system designed to illustrate the issues of Earth resource management. The GeoSphere Image marks a milestone in cartographic history. It is the first satellite map of the Earth, showing the real world it appears from space. The work required one year of effort on the world's most powerful graphics computers by Van Sant, technical director Van Warren of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and assisted
6145-29531763
Anefo photo collection. Tubantia command: Shell laboratory technician. January 17, 1978
4409-17230503
La Biblioteca del Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales de Bellaterra, lleva el nombre del físico Manuel Cardona debido a la gran aportación en libros y revistas hecha por él.
6145-45248750
ISS003-E-7087 (23-31 October 2001) --- Flight Engineer Konstantin Kozeev, of the Soyuz Taxi crew, adds his name to the list of the International Space Station (ISS) visitors in the ship’s log in the Unity node. Kozeev represents Rosaviakosmos. This image was taken with a digital still camera.
6145-45110042
Nobel Laureate and James Webb Space Telescope project scientist Dr. John Mather takes a selfie with the telescope. May 4, 2016 was a rare day for JWST, as it briefly faced the cleanroom observation window. The telescope was eventually rotated face-down in prep for the installation of the flight instruments.
6145-45175586
Dr. Eugene Parker, a pioneer in heliophysics and S. Chandrasekhar distinguished service professor emeritus for the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, watches the launch of NASA's Parker Solar Probe. This is the first agency mission named for a living person. The liftoff took place at 3:31 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. The spacecraft was built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.
6145-44736457
C-141 Circular Variable Filter Spectrometer & Yerkes Infrared (Group Photo)
6145-45243580
Paula Crawford (assisted by an American Sign Language interpreter) lectures students about materials science research in space during the U.S. Microgravity Payload-4 mission (STS-87, Nov. 19 - Dec. 5, 1997) in the visitor's center set up by the Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (IDGE) team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. IDGE, flown on three Space Shuttle mission, is yielding new insights into virtually all industrially relevant metal and alloy forming operation.
6145-44617561
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, Jay Feaster, general manager of the National Hockey League 2004 Champions Tampa Bay Lightning, sits next to the Stanley Cup in front of the open hatch into Discovery. The cup was also briefly available for viewing by employees in the KSC Training Auditorium. Feaster brought the cup to KSC while on a tour. The Stanley Cup weighs 35 pounds and is more than 100 years old. The Lightning will be added to the cup in September.
6145-44598793
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox happily signs autographs for KSC employees after his presentation about his mission and residence on the International Space Station from November 25, 2002, to May 3, 2003.
6145-44722439
S86-30338 (4 April 1986) --- Carolyn Watson of Lockheed recieves a hard copy print-out of data from the MADS recorder as it is being sent form the termainal in JSC's central data office
1899-18984929
(20 July 1991) --- Astronaut Stephen S. Oswald, STS-42 pilot, uses the IMAX camera system (ICS) during training session held at Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Manned Space Flight Exhibit Complex Bldg 90 (Rocket Park). Oswald squints as he looks through the ICS eyepiece..