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Leonard Schiff and Birth of Gravity Probe B
Leonard Schiff and Birth of Gravity Probe B

For decades following its initial verification by a 1919 eclipse expedition which observed the deflection of starlight by the Sun…

Four Gyroscopes
Four Gyroscopes

Critical to Gravity Probe B were four gyroscopes consisting of spinning spheres of solid fused quartz encased within a quartz…

Superconductivity and SQUIDs
Superconductivity and SQUIDs

Reading the spin direction of a perfectly round object presented experimenters at Stanford with a complex and critical problem. Solving…

Russia’s Progress 74 cargo craft above Iraq
Russia’s Progress 74 cargo craft above Iraq

Russia’s Progress 74 cargo craft is pictured docked to the International Space Station’s Pirs docking compartment as the orbital complex…

Aft Skirts for Artemis I Move Out of Booster Fabrication Facility
Aft Skirts for Artemis I Move Out of Booster Fabrication Facility

Artemis I Aft Skirts for Space Launch System Solid Rocket Boosters Moved Out of Booster Fabrication Facility at Kennedy Space…

Stacking the Space Launch System Solid Rocket Boosters
Stacking the Space Launch System Solid Rocket Boosters

Two 177-foot-tall solid rocket boosters help launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on the Artemis missions to the Moon.…

Fires On Grounds of Camp Pendleton, California
Fires On Grounds of Camp Pendleton, California

Fires on Camp Pendletons grounds in Southern California continue to blaze and smoke is reaching nearby cities and towns.

Grand Finale: One of Cassini’s Last Dives
Grand Finale: One of Cassini’s Last Dives

This illustration imagines the view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during one of its final dives between Saturn and its innermost…

This Week in NASA History: STS-117 Launches to Space Station– June 8, 2007
This Week in NASA History: STS-117 Launches to Space Station– June 8, 2007

This week in 2007, space shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-117, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station.

The Space In-between: Aurora Australis
The Space In-between: Aurora Australis

Like a wisp of green smoke, the aurora australis seemingly intersects with the Earth’s airglow as the International Space Station…