This week in 2012, the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager was launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Composed of seven grazing-incidence telescope modules, FOXSI examined barely visible solar nanoflares. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center built the FOXSI mirrors in a collaboration between the Astrophysics Office and the Sensors, Imaging and Optics Branch with support from Jacobs Technology in Huntsville. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological, and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage. (NASA)