Spacecraft Manufacturing Process

Historic scenes of technicians performing assembly and testing tasks for various spacecraft components and scientific experiments, capturing the essence of space exploration development.

Man uses microscope in bio-medical lab

Scientist performing a bacteria count, Membrane filtration method, laboratory

Aviation Fire Control Technician 1ST Class Gregory E. Timmons solders an integrated circuit chip onto a circuit board in an Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD) repair shop aboard the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) during Fleet Ex 1-90. Subject Operation/Series: FLEET EX 1-90 Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Eye of Rat is Examined

Marshall's 1992 Inventor of the Year demonstrates his multi-layer water window imaging x-ray microscope.

Man uses microscope in bio-medical lab

Criminal Investigation Division, Training Facility in Brunswick, Georgia , Environmental Protection Agency

A790331 NON-EVENT MAGNETOMETER NEELEY (Project Engineer) MAY 22 79EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 5/22/1979 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; GAUGES, PRESSURE; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MAGNETOMETER; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; TEST SITES historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Vintage Photograph. Scientist conducting research through a microscope in a laboratory setting.

Embryo biopsy lab

Andy Jenkins, an engineer for the Lab on a Chip Applications Development program, helped build the Applications Development Unit (ADU-25), a one-of-a-kind facility for controlling and analyzing processes on chips with extreme accuracy. Pressure is used to cause fluids to travel through network of fluid pathways, or micro-channels, embossed on the chips through a process similar to the one used to print circuits on computer chips. To make customized chips for various applications, NASA has an agreement with the U.S. Army's Micro devices and Micro fabrication Laboratory at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, where NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is located. The Marshall Center team is also collaborating with scientists at other NASA centers and at universities to develop custom chip designs for many applications, such as studying how fluidic systems work in spacecraft and identifying microbes in self-contained life support systems. Chips could even be designed for use on

Integrated Circuit Scribbing unit. Used to split wafer in separate ICs. MR-PIX008

Stuart Wolf observes crystal layering in the Electron Beam Epitaxy Facility at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The crystals are used by scientists at the facility for the development of superconducting lattices. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

September 1996 - Scientist analyzing data using computers.

Dr. Cyril A. Ponnamperuma in Lab (Chemical Evolution Branch). Origin of Life studies

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EPA Scientists at Work , Environmental Protection Agency

bio-engineer examining data, CA

Research technician using microscope in product testing laboratory.

Researchers from the Offboard Countermeasures (OCM) Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) work to develop special airborne platforms for OCM systems in the Vehicle Development Laboratory. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Vintage Photograph. Man looking through microscope.

Measurement / calibration work at the Rijkswerf (RW) in Den Helder in the early 1982.

Crew member practices injecting seed crystals into hand-held Protein Crystallization Apparatus for Microgravity (PCAM).

Joe Izano places a component in a vacuum bell jar in the clean room of the Payload Checkout Facility at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-86-11305. Base: Tinker Air Force Base State: Oklahoma (OK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A photographer uses a print enlarger while processing film inside a lab at the American Consulate during the Ahuas Tara II (Big Pine) operation. Subject Operation/Series: AHUAS TARA IIBIG PINE Base: Tegucigalpa Country: Honduras (HND)

A831119 U12N MIDNIGHT ZEPHYR FIBER OPTICS EXPERIMENT DOLCE (Project Engineer) JUL 22 83 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 7/22/1983 CABLES; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBER OPTICS EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIPMENT; MIDNIGHT ZEPHYR; N-TUNNEL; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; OPTICS EXPERIMENT; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

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A technician in the Instrumentation Shop during the buildup of Flow Boiling Condensation Experiment, FBCE Micro Gravity Payload, Condensation Module - Heat Transfer, CM-HT, Test Section Hardware Fabrication

DN-SC-85-01681. Base: Bethesda State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Intelligence SPECIALIST Second Class (IS2) Eric Rasch performs imagery interpretation, photo metric and analysis of Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS) film in the Carrier Intelligence Center (CVIC) office on board the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63). The information IS2 Rasch interprets is used in mission planning and other aspects of combat readiness. Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Dr. Russel Armstrong makes adjustments to the arc machine during a demonstration of the Laser Induced Nuclear Simulation (LINUS) experiment in the Cold Chemical Excited Infrared Simulation Experiments (COCHISE) room at the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL). Base: Hanscom Air Force Base State: Massachusetts (MA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Dr. Harry Mahtani analyzes the gas content of nutrient media from Bioreactor used in research on human breast cancer. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is sponsoring research with Bioreactors, rotating wall vessels designed to grow tissue samples in space, to understand how breast cancer works. This ground-based work studies the growth and assembly of human mammary epithelial cells (HMEC) from breast cancer susceptible tissue. Radiation can make the cells cancerous, thus allowing better comparisons of healthy vs. tunourous tissues.

Machinist's Mate 2nd Class (MM2) Joseph Leone works on equipment in the engineering spaces aboard the submarine tender USS SIMON LAKE (AS-33). SIMON LAKE provides refit, repair and supply functions for the nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) of Submarine Squadron 16. Base: Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

S85-40669 (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 procedure for space travelers. The second week of training included camera training, aircraft familiarization and other activities. Morgan adjusts a lens as a studious McAuliffe looks on.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- While on a tour of KSC, Norm Abram, master carpenter of televisions "This Old House" and "The New Yankee Workshop," tries on a tool carrier and some of the tools used in space. Abram is at the Center to film an episode of "This Old House.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Water Cluster , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Alexis Herman in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Vintage Photograph. Close-up of a scientist looking through a microscope

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Prior to installation, technicians inspect the primary mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The first in a series of great observatories launched by NASA, the HST was designed to last approximately 15 years. The Marshall Space Flight Center had management responsibility for the development of the HST and played a major role in ground tests and orbital checkout of the telescope. The HST was launched April 24, 1990 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-31 mission.

Electronics Technician First Class (ET1) Mark Rahill repairs a micro chip on a circuit board by microscope in the micro miniature shop on board the destroyer tender USS CAPE COD (AD-43). Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Kiev Academy of Sciences, Pr team Gluzman, research the effects of radioactivity on blood cells, Ukraine, May 1995.

S65-20429 (21 March 1965) --- Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, command pilot for the Gemini-Titan 3 mission, receives an eye examination during the physical given to the GT-3 crew two days before launch.

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

A weather technician makes a pencil recording of sunspots using a special mirror device. The technician is assigned with the Solar Optical Observing Network (SOON). Base: Holloman Air Force Base State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Carefish disk

NACA Physicist Studying Alpha Rays

A lab technician checks samples

School children using microscopes, Wales, Alaska, USA.

C-141 KAO Cornell University, FAR Infrared Interferometer

Space Acceleration Measurement System, SAMS Flight Hardware, Unit A

S73-20276 (1 March 1973) --- Astronaut Paul J. Weitz, pilot of the first manned Skylab mission, lies in the lower body negative pressure device during Skylab training at Johnson Space Center. Operating the controls in the background is scientist-astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin, science pilot of the mission. They are in the work and experiments area of the crew quarters of the Skylab Orbital Workshop (OWS) trainer at JSC.

DN-SC-85-01679. Base: Bethesda State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Man Using Microscope

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Norm Abram, master carpenter of televisions "This Old House" and "The New Yankee Workshop," tries out a tool used in space while wearing gloves that are part of the spacewalking suits. Abram is at KSC to film an episode of "This Old House.

Vintage Photograph. Exploring biology: young scientist using a microscope to study leaves.

Astronomer checks out his experment package (Harper Flange) mounted to Telescope in C-141 KAO Aircraft

The imagery interpretation team from the 186th Tactical Reconnaissance Group review negatives, in order to find targets during Exercise PHOTO Finish '81. Subject Operation/Series: PHOTO FINISH '81 Base: Gulfport State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Research laboratory of the central sickness burden (CZB) in April 1990.

GILLIAN ANDERSON in THE X FILES (1993), directed by CHRIS CARTER, ROB BOWMAN and DAVID NUTTER.

Draughtsman of the Laboratory of Entomology at work Paris

SYLVESTER STALLONE in THE SPECIALIST (1994), directed by LUIS LLOSA.

Research and development lab at Noise Cancellation Technologies, Inc. in Linthicum, Maryland. NCT products control noise by generating sound of opposing wavelength to cancel out the unwanted noise.

Woman in research lab with scanning electron microscope and x ray analyser at steel mill plant in Sweden

JSC2001-E-39080 (18 October 2001) --- Astronaut Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, STS-111 mission specialist, prepares to use specialized gear in the virtual reality lab at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) to train for his duties aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. This type of virtual reality training allows the astronauts to wear a helmet and special gloves while looking at computer displays simulating actual movements around the various locations on the International Space Station (ISS) hardware with which they will be working.

$Eddie Snell (standing), Post-Doctoral Fellow the National Research Council (NRC),and Marc Pusey of Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) use a reciprocal space mapping diffractometer for marcromolecular crystal quality studies. The diffractometer is used in mapping the structure of marcromolecules such as proteins to determine their structure and thus understand how they function with other proteins in the body. This is one of several analytical tools used on proteins crystalized on Earth and in space experiments.$

Dr. Alan Rudolph, left, and Captain Warren Schultz, scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), examine a sample of liposome-encapsulated hemoglobin, a blood surrogate developed by NRL researchers. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A medical technician uses a microscope to examine a blood sample in the base hospital laboratory. Base: Myrtle Beach Air Force Base State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

S65-60602 (2 Dec. 1965) --- Dr. Charles A. Berry checks astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., Gemini-7 prime crew pilot, following a workout on an exercise machine. Results will be compared with those obtained during spaceflight for evaluation. Lovell and astronaut Frank Borman (not pictured), command pilot, will pilot the Gemini-7 spacecraft on a planned 14-day mission. Dr. Berry is chief, MSC Center Medical Programs.

Mexico, Morelos, Dr. Fernando Mariscal performs lab analysis at his veterinary hospital.

Dr Robert Gallo holding a container of HIV that he has isolated for the first time. NIH in April 1984

Female scientist analyzing data printout from vintage laboratory equipment.

Flourscopic unit with upper GI study on screen. (model released)

Ames Life Sciences Experiments Cedi Snowden at Silicon Graphics with AX-5 spacesuit glove

Biologist looking through microscope to study the relationships between fungi and trees, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

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Reportage in the French National Police's Criminal Research Institute in Rosny-sous-Bois, France. Ballistics Department. Comparing two bullets under a microscope.

Male doctor looking at something through a microscope.

TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE / TEM

Even in this age of high tech and computers some traditional things remain. Here, during exercise RIMPAC 98, QM3 Jose Munoz stands on the quarterdeck of the auxiliary command ship USS CORONADO (AGF 11) with a sexton to navigate using the celestial bodies. Subject Operation/Series: RIMPAC '98 Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Kiev Academy of Sciences, Pr Gluzman and his team, Ukraine, May 1995.

1977 - A laboratory technician student, checks for sugar fermentation in test tubes to confirm veneral disease, during lab tests.

Portrait of a senior scientist in a laboratory

Testing lighthouse lamps.

Oscillatory Thermocapillary Flow Experiment (OTFE); by using silicone oil for a study on the characteristics of themocapillary flow during the onset of oscillations with particular attention to parameters; the experiment will use submerged heaters to provide a constant temperature source in open cylindrical containers to cause thermocapillary flows. Thermocouples located in the heaters, the container walls, and the fluid will monitor the temperatures in the apparatus. Tracer particles will be added to the silicone oil sample to allow observation of the flow.

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