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Hydro Impact Basin Drop Test
Hydro Impact Basin Drop Test

This week engineers at the Gantry dropped a 2,300 pound (1,043 kg) piece of foam-wrapped steel into the Hydro Impact…

Flight Test
Flight Test

In this image from November 2010, the U.S. Air Force's ACAT F-16D flew through Sierra Nevada canyons and past peaks…

Last Shuttle Payload to the Pad
Last Shuttle Payload to the Pad

The transportation canister carrying the STS-135 payload is lifted toward the payload changeout room on Launch Pad 39A's rotating service…

Last Shuttle Payload to the Pad
Last Shuttle Payload to the Pad

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the transportation canister carrying the STS-135 payload is lifted toward the payload changeout…

Prototype Capsule of Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Guided onto Lowboy Trailer
Prototype Capsule of Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Guided onto Lowboy Trailer

As a tug pushed from behind, NASA Dryden technicians guided the transport dolly carrying the Orion prototype capsule of NASA's…

First Leg of Orion’s Overland Journey
First Leg of Orion’s Overland Journey

Mounted securely on a lowboy tractor-trailer, the Orion capsule used in the pad abort launch test in 2010 headed out…

A Balancing Act
A Balancing Act

NASA Dryden technicians carefully leveled and balanced the transport fixture carrying the Orion prototype capsule of the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle…

Portrait of Shuttle and Station
Portrait of Shuttle and Station

Newly released portraits show the International Space Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex…

A Green Ring Fit for a Superhero
A Green Ring Fit for a Superhero

This glowing emerald nebula seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is reminiscent of the glowing ring wielded by the superhero…

SOFIA
SOFIA

Visitors are briefed on the operation of the telescope simulator with the High-Speed Imaging Photometer for Occultations, or HIPO, instrument…