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Steve Swanson of NASA Suits Up
Steve Swanson of NASA Suits Up

Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA suits up March 14 for a fit check dress rehearsal exercise that…

Steve Swanson and Oleg Artemyev and During a Fit Check
Steve Swanson and Oleg Artemyev and During a Fit Check

Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA shares a word with crewmate and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of the…

X-1A
X-1A

The second generation X-1s used the same wing, horizontal tail, and XLR-11 rocket engine as the first generation aircraft, with…

Detector Suspended in Free Space
Detector Suspended in Free Space

This image shows one of the NASA detectors from the BICEP2 project, developed in collaboration with the National Science Foundation.…

Detectors See Gravitational Waves from Dawn of Universe
Detectors See Gravitational Waves from Dawn of Universe

This image shows an array of the 512 superconducting detectors used on the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole. The…

Superconducting Detectors for Study of Infant Universe
Superconducting Detectors for Study of Infant Universe

The BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole uses novel technology developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The…

Crescent Saturn
Crescent Saturn

Saturn, which appears as only a thin, lit crescent, broken only by the shadows of its rings, poses gracefully for…

X-1B
X-1B

The second generation X-1s used the same wing, horizontal tail, and XLR-11 rocket engine as the first generation aircraft, with…

Cassini Spacecraft Uses “Pi Transfer” to Navigate Path Around Saturn
Cassini Spacecraft Uses “Pi Transfer” to Navigate Path Around Saturn

On Jan. 19, 2007, the Cassini spacecraft took this view of Saturn and its rings — the visible documentation of…

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. With Mercury ‘Friendship 7’ Spacecraft
Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. With Mercury ‘Friendship 7’ Spacecraft

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., pilot of the Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) spaceflight, poses for a photo with the Mercury…