Scientific Research Environments

Images depict scientists engaged in various research activities including data analysis, laboratory work, and collaborative discussions in professional settings.

Vintage Photograph. Researcher using advanced electron microscope in laboratory setting.

During a Spacelab flight, the hub of activity was the Payload Operations Control Center (POCC) at the Johnson Space Flight Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. The POCC became home to the management and science teams who worked around the clock to guide and support the mission. All Spacelab principal investigators and their teams of scientists and engineers set up work areas in the POCC. Through the use of computers, they could send commands to their instruments and receive and analyze experiment data. Instantaneous video and audio communications made it possible for scientists on the ground to follow the progress of their research almost as if they were in space with the crew. This real-time interaction between investigators on the ground and the crew in space was probably the most exciting of Spacelab's many capabilities. As principal investigators talked to the payload specialists during the mission, they consulted on experiment operations, made decisions, and shared in the thrill of gai

Scientist analyzing data on computer screen ca. 1996.

Vintage Photograph. Researcher using advanced electron microscope in laboratory setting.

Office of the Secretary - NIST Site Visit

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-95 crew members look over the Osteoporosis Experiment in Orbit (OSTEO) during a SPACEHAB familiarization tour and briefing in the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility in Cape Canaveral. Seated from left are Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski, Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai of the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), and Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., who also is a senator from Ohio. Standing, from left, are STS-95 Commander Curtis L. Brown and Canadian Space Agency representative Duncan Burnside. STS-95 will feature a variety of research payloads, including the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, and experiments on space flight and the aging process. STS-95 is targeted for an Oct. 29 launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery

Testing the 'Gunn Effect'

This simulator, five feet in diameter, had three degrees of rotational freedom, and simulated the motion of space vehicle attitude control systems. The simulator's control torque-to-inertia ratios, or angular accelerations, are adjustable.

Engineers from NASA's Glen Research Center demonstrate the access to one of the experiment racks plarned for the U.S. Destiny laboratory module on the International Space Station (ISS). This mockup has the full diameter, full corridor width, and half the length of the module. The mockup includes engineering mockups of the Fluids and Combustion Facility being developed by NASA's Glenn Research Center. (The full module will be six racks long; the mockup is three racks long).

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington, where she joined other officials for tour and briefing from Geological Survey scientists, including seismologist Seth Moran, rear left, on the status of Mount St. Helens, focal point of concern after steam-and-ash emission

A technician monitors a computer printout while testing the electrical circuits of an MGM-118 Peacekeeper (formerly MX) intercontinental ballistic missile control guidance system..

Aviation Structural Mechanic S (Structures) 2nd Class Bobby E. Burt checks over an x-ray image of an aircraft part, looking for any hidden flaws. Burt works in an Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD) shop. Base: Naval Air Station, Jacksonville State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

William M. Callicott, computer specialist at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with an image of Hurricane Emily on screen. Washington, DC. (model released)

Apex wing section undergoing loading test preparation by Mark Nunnelee and Eliseo Sanchez

Life Sceince Division Facilities, Labs and Personnel (Code-SL) Kevin Montgomery

Dr. Nagarajan Pattabiraman checks a reference manual while sitting beside a pair of graphics work stations in the Molecular Modeling and Computer Graphics Facility at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The work stations are used for the molecular modeling of bimolecules and for fitting the models into electron density maps. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Matthew Koss (forground) and Martin Glicksman (rear), principal investigator and lead scientist (respectively), review plans for the next step in the Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (IDGE) during the U.S. Microgravity Payload-4 (USMP-4) mission (STS-87, Nov. 19 - Dec. 5, 1997). Remote Operations Control Center (ROCC) like this one, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, will become more common during operations with the International Space Station. IDGE, flown on three Space Shuttle missions, is yielding new insights into virtually all industrially relavent metal and alloy forming operations.

Dr Heinz Erzberger, Ames Fellow (1999) in the Air Traffic Control (ATC). Dr Erzberger displays the complicated algorithms he devised as part of Ames' work to improve air traffic safety.

Electronics Technician 3rd Class Dellacroce receives training on the SSR-117 machine in the Electronics Repair Shop of the Naval Communication Area MASTER Station, Atlantic. Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

JSC2003-E-01126 (10 January 2003) --- Astronaut Soichi Noguchi (center), STS-114 mission specialist, participates in an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit fit check in the Space Station Airlock Test Article (SSATA) in the Crew Systems Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Astronaut Eileen M. Collins, mission commander, and suit technician Richard S. Kohn with FCE assisted Noguchi, who represents the Japanese Space Agency.

The primary payload for Space Shuttle Mission STS-42, launched January 22, 1992, was the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 (IML-1), a pressurized manned Spacelab module. The goal of IML-1 was to explore in depth the complex effects of weightlessness of living organisms and materials processing. Around-the-clock research was performed on the human nervous system's adaptation to low gravity and effects of microgravity on other life forms such as shrimp eggs, lentil seedlings, fruit fly eggs, and bacteria. Materials processing experiments were also conducted, including crystal growth from a variety of substances such as enzymes, mercury iodide, and a virus. The Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) Spacelab Payload Operations Control Center (SL POCC) at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) was the air/ground communication channel used between the astronauts and ground control teams during the Spacelab missions. Featured is the Vapor Crystal Growth System (VCGS) team in SL P

S83-32822 (5 May 1983) --- Astronaut Sally K. Ride (left) participates in a mission sequence test in preparation for STS-7, in the Kennedy Space Center s (KSC) vertical processing facility (VPF). Dr. Ride is a mission specialist for the flight. She is joined here by Anna L. Fisher, a physician and astronaut from the 1978 group of 35, which also included Dr. Ride.

A female chemist conducts a test at the U.S. Army Mobility Equipment Research and Development Command Energy and Water Resources Laboratory. Base: Fort Belvoir State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

'Life from other Worlds' with McNair Middle School TROV robot explores under Antarctic ice - image shows Eric James during video setup

Weather technicians operate data processing and video equipment connected with the Solar Optical Observing Network (SOON) to record sunspot activity. Base: Holloman Air Force Base State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA)

CAPILLARY DRIVEN HEAT TRANSFER EXPERIMENT MSL-1 MICROGRAVITY SCIENCE LABORATORY SHUTTLE FLIGHT STS-83 CREW TRAINING

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Volcanoes - After Mount St. Helens Eruption - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

At Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a worker adjusts a bracket around the camera he is attaching to the second stage of the Delta II rocket for the Mars Odyssey launch. The orbiter carries three science instruments THEMIS, the Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS), and the Mars Radiation Environment Experiment (MARIE) that will map the mineralogy and morphology of the Martian surface. The Mars Odyssey Orbiter is scheduled for launch on April 7, 2001

Ray Bradbury at NASA control room, 1979.

Advanced Stirling Converter

The primary payload for Space Shuttle Mission STS-42, launched January 22, 1992, was the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 (IML-1), a pressurized manned Spacelab module. The goal of IML-1 was to explore in depth the complex effects of weightlessness of living organisms and materials processing. Around-the-clock research was performed on the human nervous system's adaptation to low gravity and effects of microgravity on other life forms such as shrimp eggs, lentil seedlings, fruit fly eggs, and bacteria. Materials processing experiments were also conducted, including crystal growth from a variety of substances such as enzymes, mercury iodide, and a virus. The Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) Spacelab Payload Operations Control Center (SL POCC) at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) was the air/ground communication channel used between the astronauts and ground control teams during the Spacelab missions. Featured is the Mental Workload and Performance Experiment (MWP

Ames Life Sciences Experiments Craig VonWaaden, plant growth lab

'Life from other Worlds' with McNair Middle School TROV robot explores under Antarctic ice - image during demo with students, Don James and Bob Hines.

Assessing X-rays in the Central Sickboot (CZB) in April 1990.

S83-30193 (8 April 1983) --- Vice President George Bush, left, is briefed by JSC Director Gerald D. Griffin, right, during a visit to the mission operations control room (MOCR) in the Johnson Space Center s mission control center. James Beggs, NASA administrator, center, accompanied the Vice President on his visit. Flight Director Gary E. Coen is partial visible at right edge of frame, The photograph was taken by Otis Imboden.

GS-11 Charles A. Bruce, shift supervisor, 47th Information Services Group, NORAD, Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, diagnoses faults on digital and analog circuits using a GENRAD Automatic Test Equipment System. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Country: Unknown

Astronauts Stuart A. Roosa, and Alfred M. Worden training a tRendezvous Docking Simulator NASA Langley. Worden was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight and as backup command module pilot for the Apollo 12 flight.Colonel Roosa was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight.

Checking Ocean Depth. Mr. J. J. McConnell of the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office in Washington, D.C., checks the ocean depth with the precision graph recorder at left. While E. J. Murphy, Electronics Technician Third Class, USCG, Checks the position using Loran "C" at right, on board the Coast Guard icebreaker Northwind. During the Northwind's oceanographic surveys data was obtained from 75 ocean stations in the Gulf of Anadyr and Northern Bering Sea. The icebreaker also measured the Oyashio Current and gathered scientific data from the far northern Arctic waters of Alaska. These surveys will provide important information on the development of marine life vital to the Alaskan fisheries. Members of the oceanographic team which the Northwind carried included various representatives from the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, from the Universities of Washington and Oregon State, the members of the Icebreaker's crew.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At SPACEHAB, STS-107 Mission Specialist Laurel Clark practices on a piece of equipment while Mission Specialist Michael Anderson (right) looks on. They and other crew members are at the facility to learn more about the equipment that will be part of their mission. . Identified as a research mission, STS-107 is scheduled for launch July 19, 2001

Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) researcher, Richard Sears and others analyze data and photographs, North America

JSC2000-04743 (13 June 2000) --- Astronauts Marc Garneau (left) and Joseph R. Tanner, STS-97 mission specialists, familiarize themselves withan IMAX 3D motion picture camera during a training session in the Flight Operations Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Garneau represents theCanadian Space Agency (CSA).

Candid views of the STS-33/51L Crew during study periods in their offices on 09/09/1985. Astronauts Michael J. Smith (right), STS 51L Pilot, and Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, 51L Mission Commander, are photographed in conversation while in training. JSC, HOUSTON, TX

(2 - 9 Dec 1992) --- Astronaut Robert Cabana, pilot, uses a tonometer to check the intraocular pressure of astronaut Michael Rich Clifford, mission specialist. (Discovery).

Life Sceince Division Facilities, Labs and Personnel (Code-SL) Karen Hutchinson

Apollo 17 Mission commander Eugene A. Cernan, left, reviews flight plan with crewmates Ronald E. Evans, center, and Harrison H. Schmitt in the astronaut's quarters. Evans will pilot the command module alone in lunar orbit while Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Schmitt explore the Taurus-Littrow region of the Moon's surface. The launch of Apollo 17 is scheduled for December 6, 1972 at 9 53 p.m.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- At SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral, Fla., members of the STS-107 crew look over experiments for their mission. Pilot William "Willie" McCool (left) displays a glove box experiment for the trainers (right). STS-107 has two payload elements, the Double Module in its first flight into space and a Hitchhiker payload. The experiments range from material sciences to life sciences (many rats). The Hitchhiker carrier system is modular and expandable in accordance with payload requirements. Hitchhiker experiments are housed in canisters or attached to mounting plates. The Hitchhiker canister comes in two varieties--the Hitchhiker Motorized Door Canister and the Sealed Canisters. STS-107 is scheduled to launch in June 2002

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility (SPPF), Cape Canaveral, STS-95 Payload Specialist John Glenn (left), who is a senator from Ohio, checks out equipment with Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai (right), M.D., Ph.D., who represents the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) while KSC workers watch. STS-95 crew members have been participating in SPACEHAB familiarization in the SPPF. Scheduled to launch Oct. 29, the mission includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in the KSC Launch Control Center watch the taping operation involving Columbia's Orbiter Experiment Support System (OEX) recorder. After duplication the tape will be reviewed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and other facilities. No actual sensor data on that tape has been reviewed at this time. Search teams near Hemphill, Texas recovered the recorder, which stores sensor information about temperature, aerodynamic pressure, vibrations and other data from dozens of sensor locations on the orbiter, operating only during launch and re-entry. The OEX uses magnetic tape to record data that is not sent to the ground by telemetry.

Astronauts Stuart A. Roosa, and Alfred M. Worden training a tRendezvous Docking Simulator NASA Langley. Worden was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight and as backup command module pilot for the Apollo 12 flight.Colonel Roosa was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight.

EXPLANCE 1609 (1954-1983)

Three members of the STS-60 crew and an alternate crew member discuss their upcoming mission with the news media in JSC's public affairs facility. Seated from the left are Charles F. Bolden Jr., mission commander; Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, mission specialist; Russian Cosmonaut Vladimir Titov, alternate mission specialist; interpreter Vladimir Fischel and Astronaut Kenneth S. Reightler, pilot.

'Life from other Worlds' with McNair Middle School TROV robot explores under Antarctic ice - image of Wade Sisler, Jay Schiebe, Ken Saba and

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At SPACEHAB, STS-107 crew members become acquainted with equipment that will be on the mission. From left are Mission Specialists David Brown, Ilan Ramon (from Israel), Michael Anderson and Kalpana Chawla; seated in front is Mission Specialist Laurel Clark. Identified as a research mission, STS-107 is scheduled for launch July 19, 2001

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S86-28889 (14 Feb. 1986) --- Kennedy Space Center Director Richard Smith points out a portion of a solid rocket booster segment to astronaut Sally Ride and to the chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, William P. Rogers. The commission was taken to various booster storage and handling facilities at KSC on Feb. 14, 1986 as part of the failure investigation.

S85-40668 (18 Sept. 1985) --- The two teachers, Sharon Christa McAuliffe (left) and Barbara R. Morgan have hands-on experience with an Arriflex motion picture camera following a briefing on space photography. The two began training Sept. 10, 1985 with the STS-51L crew and learning basic procedures for space travelers. The second week of training included camera training, aircraft familiarization and other activities.

Volcanoes - After Mount St. Helens Eruption - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

The primary payload for Space Shuttle Mission STS-42, launched January 22, 1992, was the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 (IML-1), a pressurized manned Spacelab module. The goal of IML-1 was to explore in depth the complex effects of weightlessness of living organisms and materials processing. Around-the-clock research was performed on the human nervous system's adaptation to low gravity and effects of microgravity on other life forms such as shrimp eggs, lentil seedlings, fruit fly eggs, and bacteria. Materials processing experiments were also conducted, including crystal growth from a variety of substances such as enzymes, mercury iodide, and a virus. The Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) Spacelab Payload Operations Control Center (SL POCC) at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) was the air/ground communication channel used between the astronauts and ground control teams during the Spacelab missions. Featured are activities in the SL POCC during STS-42, IML-1 mis

S93-45364 (29 Sept 1993) --- Astronaut David A. Wolf, mission specialist, participates in pre-flight data collection for the cardiovascular experiments scheduled to fly aboard Columbia for the Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS-2) mission.

The attention of Lady Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, is directed to one of the modules in the Space Station Processing Facility. Lady Thatcher is touring KSC. Accompanying her is JoAnn H. Morgan (left), director, External Relations and Business Development, at the Center

In the Image Analysis Facility in the Vehicle Assembly Building, Brad Lawrence (second from left, standing) participates in a presentation to news media representatives on the improved tracking cameras and long-range optical tracking systems that will be used to capture ascent imagery during the return to flight of the Space Shuttle. The press opportunity also includes tours of the launch pad perimeter camera site at Launch Complex 39B and two Playalinda Beach optical tracking sites at the Cape Canaveral National Seashore and the Merritt Island National Refuge.

A technician performs breach lock thread preparation of an advanced maneuvering re-entry vehicle (AMARV) for a preassembly test in the AMARV control section. Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Christopher Kraft, flight director during Project Mercury, works at his console inside the Flight Control area at Mercury Mission Control.

JSC2007-E-27765 (6 June 2007) --- Astronauts John M. Grunsfeld (right, partially obscured), Michael J. Massimino (third right, partially obscured) and Andrew J. Feustel (left foreground), STS-125 mission specialists, participate in a training session with a Hubble Space Telescope mockup in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near Johnson Space Center.

S99-09460 (11 August 1999) --- Astronauts Janet L. Kavandi and Gerhard P.J. Thiele, mission specialists, participate in a flight crew equipment (FCE) bench review of STS-99 hardware. The two are preparing for amission aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour later this year. Thiele, who represents the European Space Agency (ESA), is one of two international mission specialists on the crew.

An experiment in predicting and/or influencing screen imagery, at Benson Herbert's Paraphysical Laboratory, Downton photo 2 Date: 1989

51G-S-213 (June 1985) --- Public Affairs Office (PAO) commentator Janet K. Ross is pictured at her console in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center during the STS-51G mission.

S93-45076 (22 Sept 1993) --- Payload specialist Martin J. Fettman listens to an amateur radio instruction by crew trainer John J. Maca. Members of the STS-58 crew were training with amateur radio equipment at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). The STS-58 flight will carry the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) payload, configuration C, which includes FM voice and packet. Three of the seven crew members are licensed amateur radio operators. Fettman's call letters are KC5AXA; William S. McArthur, mission specialist, KC5ACR; and Richard A. Searfoss, pilot, KC5CKM. Licensed students at a number of schools around the country will have the opportunity to talk directly with the astronauts during the 14-day flight.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility (SPPF), STS-95 Mission Specialist Scott Parazynski, M.D., (left) and Payload Specialist John Glenn (right), who is a senator from Ohio, share a light moment while checking out equipment for the mission, scheduled to launch Oct. 29. STS-95 crew members have been participating in SPACEHAB familiarization in the SPPF. The mission includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process

Electromagnetic radiation. Radiation measurement on rat in an anechoic chamber

Astronauts Jerry L. Ross (left) and Sherwood Springer (center), look over a foot restraint like that on the currently orbiting Shuttle Discovery. At right is Astronaut Bruce McCandless II. Activities, Bldg. 29, Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) for the STS-23/51D Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Simulation for Syncom IV, 04/14/1985. 1. SHUTTLE - SIMULATION (SYNCOM IV) 2. ASTRONAUT ROSS, JERRY L. - SIMULATION (SYNCOM) 3. ASTRONAUT SPRING, SHERWOOD C. - SIMULATION (SYNCOM IV) JSC, HOUSTON, TX

Atmospheric Scientist

The primary objective of the STS-35 mission was round the clock observation of the celestial sphere in ultraviolet and X-Ray astronomy with the Astro-1 observatory which consisted of four telescopes the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT); the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE); the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT); and the Broad Band X-Ray Telescope (BBXRT). The Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) Spacelab Payload Operations Control Center (SL POCC) at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) was the air/ground communication channel used between the astronauts and ground control teams during the Spacelab missions. Teams of controllers and researchers directed on-orbit science operations, sent commands to the spacecraft, received data from experiments aboard the Space Shuttle, adjusted mission schedules to take advantage of unexpected science opportunities or unexpected results, and worked with crew members to resolve problems with their experiments. D

NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin (second from right) visits the control room of the Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (IDGE) in Remote Operations Control Center (ROCC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)in Troy, NY, during RPI's 175th arniversary. IDGE, flown on three Space Shuttle missions, is yielding new insights into virtually all industrially relevant metal and alloy forming operations.

Gerry Timms, a Technical Engineer, adjusts the flight motion table during a simulated test of in-flight aircraft movement during research on the LOCAAS (low-cost autonomous attack system) weapon system. Exact Date Shot Unknown Published in AIRMAN Magazine September 1996. Base: Eglin Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Quakefinder CEO Tom Bleier.

Dwarf Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) researchers Alistair Birtles, Monique Matthews and Peter Arnold compare research notes, Australia

S85-40670 (18 Sept. 1985) --- The two teachers, Sharon Christa McAuliffe and Barbara R. Morgan (out of frame) have hands-on experience with an Arriflex motion picture camera following a briefing on space photography. The two began training Sept. 10, 1985 with the STS-51L crew and learning basic procedures for space travelers. The second week of training included camera training, aircraft familiarization and other activities. McAuliffe zeroes in on a test subject during a practice session with the Arriflex.

Astronauts Sally Ride and Terry Hart prepare for remote manipulator system (RMS) training for STS-2 in bldg 9A. Views include Ride, Hart and Robert R. Kain of the Flight Activites Branch reviewing procedures for RMS training (34262); Ride and Hart stand beside the RMS control center looking down at the payload bay mock-up (34263).

The arnual conference for the Educator Resource Center Network (ERCN) Coordinators was held at Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio. The conference included participants from NASA's Educator Resource Centers located throughout the country. The Microgravity Science Division at Glenn sponsored a Microgravity Day for all the conference participants. Dr. Wil Roberson and Marge Lehky prepare a demonstration with the mini-drop tower. This image is from a digital still camera; higher resolution is not available.

Astronauts Stuart A. Roosa, and Alfred M. Worden training a tRendezvous Docking Simulator NASA Langley. Worden was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight and as backup command module pilot for the Apollo 12 flight.Colonel Roosa was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-106 Mission Specialist Yuri I. Malenchenko (right) examines equipment at SPACEHAB, part of the payload on the mission to the International Space Station. He and the other crew members Commander Terrence W. Wilcutt, Pilot Scott D. Altman, and Mission Specialists Edward T. Lu, Daniel C. Burbank, Boris V. Morukov and Richard A. Mastracchio are taking part in Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) activities at SPACEHAB. Malenchenko and Morukov represent the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. On the 11-day mission, the seven-member crew will perform support tasks on orbit, transfer supplies and prepare the living quarters in the newly arrived Zvezda Service Module for the first long-duration crew, dubbed "Expedition One," which is due to arrive at the Station in late fall. STS-106 is scheduled to launch Sept. 8, 2000, at 8:31 a.m. EDT from Launch Pad 39B

the heat pipe stack, Fuel Cell Laboratory

Environmental Portrait of Christine M. Darden. Supersonic Aerodynamics Branch

Steve Culivan, aerospace education specialist at Stennis Space Center, conducts a professional development workshop for fourth- through ninth-grade educators. During the Nov. 4 'Learning with the Stars' workshop, educators spent time learning about different aspects of the universe and enjoying a presentation of Stennis' portable planetarium.

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Using a computer for the electrical stimulation of paralyzed muscle, the researchers at Wright State University helped a paraplegic to walk.

Susan P. Rainwater monitors an extravehicular activity (EVA) simulation from the EVA console at JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) during joint integrated simulations for the STS-61 mission. Astronauts assigned to extravehicular activity (EVA) tasks with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) were simultaneously rehearsing in a neutral buoyancy tank at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Alabama.

S69-39601 (20 July 1969) --- Spacecraft communicators are pictured as they keep in contact with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their lunar landing mission on July 20, 1969. From left to right are astronauts Charles M. Duke Jr., James A. Lovell Jr. and Fred W. Haise Jr.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong examines a Vertical and Short Takeoff and Landing test setup in the 9- by 15-Foot Low Speed Wind Tunnel at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

A photographer processes film in the photographic lab at the Pacific Fleet Audio Visual Facility. Base: Naval Air Station, Fallon State: Nevada (NV) Country: United States Of America (USA)

S98-08733 (9 April 1998) --- Looking through the view finder on a camera, U.S. Sen. John H. Glenn Jr. (D.-Ohio) gets a refresher course in photography from a JSC crew trainer (out of frame, right). The STS-95 payload specialist carried a 35mm camera on his historic MA-6 flight over 36 years ago. The photo was taken by Joe McNally, National Geographic, for NASA.

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe comes to Ames for employee briefing and tour.

Mission Specialist George (Pinky) D. Nelson uses a 35 mm camera to photograph a protein crystal grown during the STS-26 Protein Crystal Growth (PCG-II-01) experiment. The protein crystal growth (PCG) carrier is shown deployed from the PCG Refrigerator/Incubator Mocule (R/IM) located in the middeck forward locker. The R/IM contained three Vapor Diffusion Apparatus (VDS) trays (one of which is shown). A total of sixty protein crystal samples were processed during the STS-26 mission.

Van Sant, creator of the GeoSphere Project, the first electronic, cloud-free, 3D mosaic of Earth composed of thousands of satellite images. Tom Van Sant is a sculptor, painter, and conceptual artist. In his professional work he has executed over sixty major sculpture and mural commissions for public spaces around the world. His professional skills and intellectual interests range to architectural design, city planning, art education and advanced technical invention. His large scale conceptual art projects of the 1980s led to the creation of The GeoSphere Project, an ambitious environmental display system designed to illustrate the issues of Earth resource management. The GeoSphere Image marks a milestone in cartographic history. It is the first satellite map of the Earth, showing the real world it appears from space. The work required one year of effort on the world's most powerful graphics computers by Van Sant, technical director Van Warren of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and assisted

JSC2000-01454 (16 February 2000)---Scott D. Vangen "talks topography" at the Crew Interface Console (CIC) in the Payload Operations Control Center (POCC) at JSC's Mission Control Center.

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