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OCO-2 Gets Ready for a Lift
OCO-2 Gets Ready for a Lift

NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2, was connected to a 20-ton crane at a mobile service tower at Vandenberg Air…

OCO-2 Moves Up
OCO-2 Moves Up

On June 14, NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2, was lifted up the side of a mobile service tower.

NASA Officials Mark Six Months and Counting to First Orion Flight
NASA Officials Mark Six Months and Counting to First Orion Flight

At the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA marks T-6 months and counting to…

M2-F1
M2-F1

In 1962, FRC Director Paul Bikle approved a program to build a lightweight, unpowered lifting body as a prototype to…

Apollo 15: Interplanetary Mountaineers
Apollo 15: Interplanetary Mountaineers

This LRO image shows the area surrounding Apollo 15’s landing site, annotated with the traverse plots of the mission’s first…

I Spy a Little Asteroid With My Infrared Eye
I Spy a Little Asteroid With My Infrared Eye

This image of asteroid 2011 MD was taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in Feb. 2014, over a period of…

How to Measure the Size of an Asteroid
How to Measure the Size of an Asteroid

Observations of infrared light coming from asteroids provide a better estimate of their true sizes than visible-light measurements. This diagram…

Storm Cell Over the Southern Appalachian Mountains
Storm Cell Over the Southern Appalachian Mountains

This storm cell photo was taken from NASA’s high-altitude ER-2 aircraft on May 23, 2014, during a study aimed at…

Rosetta Closing In
Rosetta Closing In

This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the Onboard Scientific Imaging System (OSIRIS) on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta…

Space Launch System Model Undergoes Wind Tunnel Testing at NASA Langley
Space Launch System Model Undergoes Wind Tunnel Testing at NASA Langley

The aerodynamics team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia tested a model of the 70-metric-ton Space Launch System in…