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Loads Lab technician Ted Powers positioned a load cell atop a hydraulic jack beneath the wing of NASA’s G-III research…

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The Cassini spacecraft captures a glimpse of the moon Atlas shortly after emerging from Saturn's shadow.
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Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., in his Mercury flight suit.