The super star cluster Westerlund 1, only 15,000 light-years away in our Milky Way neighborhood, hosts…
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NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Parachute Tested at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground
Engineers Successfully Test the Parachutes for NASA's Orion Spacecraft at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground
NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Parachutes Tested at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground
Engineers Successfully Test the Parachutes for NASA's Orion Spacecraft at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground
Women Scientists at NASA in January 1959
January 1959. Women Scientists Lucille Coltrane, Jean Clark Keating, Katherine Cullie Speegle, Doris 'Dot' Lee, Ruth…
A Mass of Viscous Flow Features
Viscous, lobate flow features are commonly found at the bases of slopes in the mid-latitudes of…
Technicians Secure the Protective Covering Around CYGNUS
In the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the…
Hubble Showcases a Remarkable Galactic Hybrid
UGC 12591's classification straddles somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral galaxy. It lies just under…
Pearl Young at Langley’s Flight Instrumentation Facility, March 1929
In this March 29, 1929 photograph, Pearl I. Young is working in the Langley Memorial Aeronautical…
Glaciers Ebb on South Georgia Island
Frequent cloud cover in the southern Atlantic Ocean often obscures satellite images of South Georgia and…
Full-Circle Vista With a Linear Shaped Martian Sand Dune
The left side of this 360-degree panorama from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the long rows…