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John Glenn in the Mercury Procedures Trainer
John Glenn in the Mercury Procedures Trainer

John H. Glenn, one of the Mercury Seven Astronauts, runs through a training exercise in the Mercury Procedures Trainer simulator…

APOD: 2014 March 21 – Star Trails over El Capitan
APOD: 2014 March 21 – Star Trails over El Capitan

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2014 March 21 – Star… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss…

Steve Swanson Reviews Rendezvous Procedures
Steve Swanson Reviews Rendezvous Procedures

Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA reviews rendezvous procedures with a training instructor.

Expedition 39/40 Rehearses Rendezvous Procedures
Expedition 39/40 Rehearses Rendezvous Procedures

Expedition 39/40 rehearse rendezvous procedures on a laptop simulator.

X-1
X-1

The first generation X-1 aircraft changed aviation history in numerous ways, and not simply because they were the first aircraft…

Building A Big Rocket Fuel Tank
Building A Big Rocket Fuel Tank

Technicians prepare the 18-foot-diameter (5.5-meter) tank during manufacturing at the Boeing Developmental Center in Tukwila, Wash.

Hardy Star Survives Supernova Blast
Hardy Star Survives Supernova Blast

This hardy star within a supernova remnant is located in a region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small companion…

Tank Manufacturing
Tank Manufacturing

A robot heats advanced composite materials to form the skin of a composite tank designed to hold super cold propellants.

Getting Ready To Ride Inside The Super Guppy
Getting Ready To Ride Inside The Super Guppy

One of the largest composite rocket propellant tanks ever manufactured is prepared for transport on NASA’s Super Guppy airplane.

Coastal Flooding in New Zealand, Early March
Coastal Flooding in New Zealand, Early March

By March 6, 2014, skies over New Zealand's South Island had cleared enough after a powerful storm for the Moderate…