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NASA 360 - Production Video …
NASA 360 traveled to Arizona …
10/01/2009
Description NASA 360 traveled to Arizona to cover NASA's analog testing of hardware going to the Moon and beyond. We interviewed several people and covered the LER, ATHLETE, and other various programs being tested in the desert. D-Rats, or Desert Rats was over a period of several days. We produced 3 different segments including a brief overview of the project as seen briefly in the clip provided. NASA 360 examines NASA's past, present and future to show how NASA has improved life on Earth and how NASA is helping develop and inspire technological innovation.
Date 10/01/2009
Creator nasa
Lunar Orbiter 1
The world's first view of Ea …
11/13/08
Description The world's first view of Earth as released to the public taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon. The photo was transmitted to Earth by the United States Lunar Orbiter I and received at the NASA tracking station at Robledo De Chavela near Madrid, Spain. This crescent of the Earth was photographed August 23, 1966 at 16:35 GMT when the spacecraft was on its 16th orbit and just about to pass behind the Moon. Photo Credit: NASA / LOIRP
Date 11/13/08
LOIRP Moon
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NAS …
11/13/08
Description MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA released a newly restored 42-year-old image of Earth on Thursday. The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft took the iconic photograph of Earth rising above the lunar surface in 1966. Using refurbished machinery and modern digital technology, NASA produced the image at a much higher resolution than was possible when it was originally taken. The data may help the next generation of explorers as NASA prepares to return to the moon. Read press release Image Credit: NASA / LOIRP
Date 11/13/08
Thermal Protection System
Visitors to the Future Missi …
7/6/08
Description Visitors to the Future Missions tent learn about the Thermal Protection System (TPS) for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle that will take astronaut crews to the International Space Station and will later return humans to the Moon.
Date 7/6/08
Astronaut Exercise
In the next 50 years, NASA p …
7/8/08
Description In the next 50 years, NASA plans to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars. These astronauts must follow a strenuous exercise program in-flight to prevent the health effects of space flight. These effects include decrease in bone and muscle mass, strength, sensory-motor function (i.e. balance), and the ability to perform aerobic exercise.
Date 7/8/08
Earthrise
Apollo 8, the first manned m …
12/24/08
Description Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts--Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders--held a live broadcast from lunar orbit, in which they showed pictures of the Earth and moon as seen from their spacecraft. Said Lovell, "The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth." They ended the broadcast with the crew taking turns reading from the book of Genesis. Visit the Apollo 8 page for audio and video of the historic mission. Image Credit: NASA
Date 12/24/08
Earth and Moon
This picture of the Earth an …
4/2/09
Description This picture of the Earth and Moon in a single frame was taken by the Galileo spacecraft from about 3.9 million miles away. Antarctica is visible through clouds (bottom). The Moon's far side is seen, the shadowy indentation in the dawn terminator is the south pole Aitken Basin, one of the largest and oldest lunar impact features.
Date 4/2/09
Moon over the Cape
Under a waning moon at Cape …
6/3/08
Description Under a waning moon at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the Delta II rocket set to launch NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope is poised to receive the first of nine strap-on solid rocket boosters. </br></br> Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis</br> March 27, 2008
Date 6/3/08
Apollo - Through the Eyes of …
July 20, 2009, marks the 40t …
5/6/09
Description July 20, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins of Apollo 11. A direct result of President John F. Kennedy's mandate to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. The achievements of the Apollo missions have since become a benchmark in the annals of human experience. Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts is a visual celebration of the most heralded space flights in history and a record of one of the most significant episodes in the history of photography. Image Credit: NASA
Date 5/6/09
Apollo 15 on the Launch Pad
Lightening flashes in the sk …
5/6/09
Description Lightening flashes in the sky behind the Saturn V rocket that will propel Apollo 15 to the moon, July 25, 1971. Image Credit: NASA
Date 5/6/09
Eclipse View from the ISS
The International Space Stat …
6/9/08
Description The International Space Station (ISS) was in position to view the umbral (ground) shadow cast by the moon as it moved between Earth and the sun during a solar eclipse on March 29, 2006. This astronaut image captures the umbral shadow across southern Turkey, northern Cyprus and the Mediterranean Sea. Credit: NASA
Date 6/9/08
Total Eclipse of the Sun
On December 3, 2002, people …
6/9/08
Description On December 3, 2002, people in Australia received a rare 32-second celestial show as the moon completely obscured the sun, creating a ring of light. Solar eclipses provide experts an opportunity to study the sun's outer atmosphere, called the corona. This total eclipse was the first to cover Australian shores since 1976. The next is not predicted to occur for several more decades. While people in Australia were observing the solar eclipse, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft also had its eye on the sun. From its unique vantage point in space, scientists have been able to monitor the explosions on the sun that can impact us here on Earth. This image combines a photograph of the solar eclipse (showing the halo-like corona) with data taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope instrument aboard SOHO (showing the green inner regions). Image credit: NASA/ESA Text credit: NASA's Earth Observatory
Date 6/9/08
Martian Moons Transit the Su …
The upper-left of these imag …
6/9/08
Description The upper-left of these images shows the passing, or transit, of the Martian moon Deimos across the sun. This event is similar to solar eclipses seen from Earth in which our moon crosses in front of the sun. The bottom three images show Phobos, Mars's other moon, transiting the sun. The potato-shaped Phobos is roughly 15 miles across, about twice the size of Deimos. Deimos appears so much smaller because it is also a bit more than twice as far away from Mars as Phobos is. The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took images of both moons on different days in March 2004. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
Date 6/9/08
STEREO Sees Lunar Transit
This transit of the moon acr …
6/9/08
Description This transit of the moon across the sun on Feb. 25, 2007, could not be seen from Earth. This sight was visible only from the STEREO-B spacecraft in its orbit about the sun, trailing behind the Earth. NASA's STEREO mission consists of two spacecraft launched in October 2006 to study solar storms. When STEREO-B captured this image, it was about one million miles from the Earth. That's about 4.4 times farther away from the moon than we are on Earth. As a result, the moon appeared about 4.4 times smaller than what we are used to. This alignment of STEREO-B and the moon was not just due to luck. It was arranged with a small tweak to STEREO-B's orbit in December 2006. The sun as it appears here is a composite of images in four different wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light that were separated into color channels and then recombined. Image credit: NASA
Date 6/9/08
Arctic Eclipse
NASA's Terra satellite was r …
8/4/08
Description NASA's Terra satellite was rounding the top of the globe, making its way from the eastern tip of Siberia and across the Arctic Ocean towards northern Norway and northwest Russia, when it captured this unique view of a total solar eclipse on Aug. 1, 2008. The circular disk of the Moon casts an oval-shaped shadow across the left edge of this image. In the region of totality, where the Moon entirely obscures the Sun, the shadow is complete. The edges of the shadow are fuzzy, gradually lightening from black to red, brown, and yellow until the shadow is no longer discernable. In these areas of semi-shadow, the Sun is only partially blocked. On any other day, the photo-like view captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite would be brilliant white since both the ever-present Arctic clouds and the ice that caps the northern sea reflect light. In this image, however, it is as if the world is painted in sepia: the low light casts a yellow-brown glow on much of the scene. The image was captured between 9:35 and 9:45 UTC. In the area shown in the image, the Sun was completely obscured for about two minutes. As Earth rotated, the shadow moved southeast across the surface. At the same time, the satellite crossed the Arctic, its path nearly perpendicular to the eclipse. Because the shadow was moving across Earth's surface as the satellite approached, it has a long oblong shape in this image. In an instantaneous snapshot from a platform that was not moving relative to Earth, the shadow would be more circular. Image credit: Jeff Schmaltz, NASA's MODIS Rapid Response Team Text credit: Holli Riebeek, NASA's Earth Observatory
Date 8/4/08
2008 Solar Eclipse at Totali …
This image shows the Aug. 1, …
8/6/08
Description This image shows the Aug. 1, 2008, solar eclipse at the point of totality, when the moon completely blocks out the body of the sun, revealing the normally hidden, halo-like corona. Credit: The Exploratorium
Date 8/6/08
2008 Solar Eclipse Diamond R …
This "diamond ring" image sh …
8/6/08
Description This "diamond ring" image shows the Aug. 1, 2008, solar eclipse at a point when the moon almost completely covered up the body of the sun. Credit: The Exploratorium
Date 8/6/08
Fly Me to the Moon
At Launch Complex-41 on Cape …
6/18/09
Description At Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the Atlas V/Centaur rocket, with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite on top, rolls out to the launch pad. The missions are the first in NASA's plan to return humans to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost by 2020. The orbiter spacecraft includes seven instruments that will help NASA characterize the moon's surface. Image credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller June 17, 2009
Date 6/18/09
Up and Away
After a flawless liftoff, th …
6/18/09
Description After a flawless liftoff, the Atlas V/Centaur rocket speeds toward space carrying NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. LRO and LCROSS are the first missions in NASA's plan to return humans to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost by 2020. June 18, 2009 Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Date 6/18/09
To the Moon
Fire and smoke signal the li …
6/19/09
Description Fire and smoke signal the liftoff of the Atlas V/Centaur carrying NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite on their missions to the moon. Launch from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida was on-time at 5:32 p.m. EDT. June 18, 2009 Image credit: NASA/Tom Farrar, Kevin O'Connell
Date 6/19/09
Assignment Shoot The Moon Ep …
ASSIGNMENT: SHOOT THE MOON ( …
1967
Description ASSIGNMENT: SHOOT THE MOON (EPISODE 5) HQ 167 - (1967) - 28 Minutes Summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted by the unmanned Ranger, Surveyor, and lunar orbiter spacecraft. Also shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of close-up photography of the Moon and includes views of craters, mountain ranges, and other lunar terrain. AWARDS: Golden Eagle, Council on International Nontheatrical Events (CINE), 1968 * Award of Merit, American Film Festival, 1968
Date 1967
Animation: To the Moon
Follow a future crew as they …
Description Follow a future crew as they ride the Orion capsule to the moon.
Exploring the Moon
Future astronauts return to …
Description Future astronauts return to the lunar surface in this animation.
Buzz Aldrin on the Moon
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar …
8/1/08
Description Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon near the leg of the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera.
Date 8/1/08
First Picture of the Earth a …
The picture of the Earth and …
8/1/08
Description The picture of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded September 18, 1977, by NASA's Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth.
Date 8/1/08
Two Spacecraft Head to the M …
The Atlas V/Centaur rocket c …
6/19/09
Description The Atlas V/Centaur rocket carrying NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite lifts off from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Image credit: NASA/Jeffery Marino June 18, 2009
Date 6/19/09
Raising Old Glory
In the Vehicle Assembly Buil …
8/13/09
Description In the Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 4 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane lifts the Ares I-X Super Stack 4 with the United States flag on it. The stack will be moved to High Bay 3 for integration with Super Stack 3. Five super stacks make up the upper stage that will be integrated with the four-segment solid rocket booster first stage on the mobile launch platform. Ares I-X is the test vehicle for the Ares I, which is part of the Constellation Program to return men to the moon and beyond. Image credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis Aug. 11, 2009
Date 8/13/09
Standing Tall
In the Vehicle Assembly Buil …
8/17/09
Description In the Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 3, Super Stack 5 is secured to the Ares I-X segments already in place on the mobile launcher platform, completing assembly of the Ares I-X rocket. The 327-foot-tall rocket is one of the largest processed in the bay, rivaling the height of the Apollo Program's 364-foot-tall Saturn V. Five super stacks make up the rocket's upper stage that is integrated with the four-segment solid rocket booster first stage. Ares I-X is the test vehicle for the Ares I, which is part of the Constellation Program to return men to the moon and beyond. The Ares I-X flight test is targeted for Oct. 31, pending formal NASA Headquarters approval. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis Aug. 13, 2009
Date 8/17/09
Getting Ready
The Ares I-X rocket stands t …
10/2/09
Description The Ares I-X rocket stands tall inside the massive Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Part of the Constellation Program, the Ares I-X is the test vehicle for the Ares I, which is the essential core of a space transportation system that eventually will carry crewed missions back to the moon, on to Mars and out into the solar system. Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Sept. 25, 2009
Date 10/2/09
APOLLO 16MM ONBOARD SELECT V …
This program contains select …
4/14/04
Description This program contains selected views taken from the Apollo 16mm onboards edited together and set to inspirational music. Footage from all Apollo missions, Apollo-Saturn 202 through Apollo 17, is used. Includes: stage separation, spacecraft rendezvous, various in-cabin crew scenes from spacecraft operations to leisure activities, Extravehicular Activity (EVA) views, full Earth and Moon views with close up views of the Moon, Earth rise over Moon horizon, Lunar Module (LM) descent, scenes from various EVAs on the Lunar surface, scenes taken during Command Module (CM) reentry including views of the main parachutes as CM makes final descent, views of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) and Lunar Module (LM), and a nice view of the planting of the American flag.
Date 4/14/04
APOLLO 16MM ONBOARD SELECT V …
This program contains select …
2/6/06
Description This program contains selected views taken from the Apollo 16mm onboards edited together and set to inspirational music. Footage from all Apollo missions, Apollo-Saturn 202 through Apollo 17, is used. Includes: Launch, stage separation, spacecraft rendezvous, various in-cabin crew scenes from spacecraft operations to leisure activities, Extravehicular Activity (EVA) views, full Earth and Moon views with close up views of the Moon, Earth rise over Moon horizon, Lunar Module (LM) descent, scenes from various EVAs on the Lunar surface, scenes taken during Command Module (CM) reentry including views of the main parachutes as CM makes final descent, views of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) and Lunar Module (LM), and a nice view of the planting of the American flag.
Date 2/6/06
APOLLO 16MM ONBOARD SELECT V …
This program contains select …
5/11/04
Description This program contains selected views taken from the Apollo 16mm onboards edited together and set to inspirational music. Footage from all Apollo missions, Apollo-Saturn 202 through Apollo 17, is used. Includes: stage separation, spacecraft rendezvous, various in-cabin crew scenes from spacecraft operations to leisure activities, Extravehicular Activity (EVA) views, transposition views, Earth rise over Moon horizon, lunar landscape, Lunar Module (LM) descent, scenes from various EVAs on the Lunar surface including planting the American flag, views of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), and scenes taken during Command Module (CM) reentry including views of the main parachutes as CM makes final descent.
Date 5/11/04
Flying Across the Moon
The International Space Stat …
04/07/2010
Description The International Space Station flew across the face of the moon over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida approximately 15 minutes before the launch of space shuttle Discovery on the STS-131 mission. Discovery successfully launched on April 5 and is now docked with the station. STS-131 will deliver the multi-purpose logistics module Leonardo, filled with supplies, a new crew sleeping quarters and science racks that will be transferred to the International Space Station's laboratories. The crew also will switch out a gyroscope on the station's truss, install a spare ammonia storage tank and retrieve a Japanese experiment from the station's exterior. Image Credit: Photo courtesy of Fernando Echeverria
Date 04/07/2010
Moonfest
Moonfest 2009 was hosted by …
8/14/09
Description Moonfest 2009 was hosted by the LCROSS mission and the NASA Lunar Science Institute at NASA Ames Research Center on July 19, 2009. More than 11,000 people braved the heat and traffic to join in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the moon landings, the LCROSS mission and space exploration.
Date 8/14/09
Observe the Moon Night
Young and old alike came out …
8/17/09
Description Young and old alike came out to Moffett Field on Aug. 1 to get a closer look at our lunar neighbor. The event was hosted by NASA's LCROSS mission and the NASA Lunar Science Institute in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy.
Date 8/17/09
LCROSS Mission Team
Dan Andrews (left), LCROSS p …
10/14/09
Description Dan Andrews (left), LCROSS project manager, and John Schreiner, Mission Operations Manager, shake hands after confirmation the LCROSS spacecraft successfully impacted its target crater on the moon. Image credit: Eric James / NASA Ames
Date 10/14/09
LCROSS Mission Team
From left to right: Khanh Tr …
10/14/09
Description From left to right: Khanh Trinh (Simulator Engineer), John Bresina (Command Sequencing Engineer), Dan Andrews (LCROSS Project Manager), and John Schreiner (Mission Operations Manager), clap after confirmation the LCROSS spacecraft successfully impacted its target crater on the moon. Image credit: Eric James / NASA Ames
Date 10/14/09
Crew Module, Launch Abort Sy …
NASA is a step closer to the …
1/26/09
Description NASA is a step closer to the first flight test of its back-to-the-moon rocket design with the completion of key Ares I-X rocket hardware elements at NASA's Langley Research Center, in Hampton, Va. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 1/26/09
The Road to Apollo
Almost 40 years have passed …
2/13/09
Description Almost 40 years have passed since July 20, 1969, when the lunar module "Eagle" carrying Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin gingerly made its way down to the Sea of Tranquility, landing humans on the moon for the first time. "From launch to splashdown, there was no aspect of the Apollo mission that scientists, engineers and technicians at NASA's Langley Research Center had not helped to develop in one way or another," said historian James R. Hansen, author of Spaceflight Revolution. This weekly series of photographs will highlight some of the Hampton center's contributions on "The road to Apollo." Credit: NASA
Date 2/13/09
Crew Impact Attenuation Syst …
Steve Nevins examines instru …
2/20/09
Description Steve Nevins examines instrumentation next to the Crew Impact Attenuation System (CIAS) Test Article in the garage across from building 1297. Langley engineers recently designed and fabricated the 20,000-pound test article which completed seven preliminary impact tests at Langley's Landing and Impact Dynamics gantry since the start of the year. Later this month, technicians will attach energy absorbing struts to ready the hardware for testing the Orion seat pallet system. The CIAS test article emulates the Orion crew module interface to the seat pallet that will accommodate between four and six astronauts. Once energy absorbing struts are attached to the seat pallet, a new phase of testing for Orion will begin. The series of tests will evaluate Orion's energy absorbing seat system, which will help reduce loads on the astronauts and protect them from injury when returning to Earth from a mission to the International Space Station or the moon. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 2/20/09
The Road to Apollo 07: John …
In the opinion of many space …
4/6/09
Description In the opinion of many space historians, Langley's most important contribution to the Apollo program was its development of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR). Here, John Houbolt explains the critical weight-saving advantage of the LOR concept. The basic premise was to fire an assembly of three spacecraft into Earth orbit on top of a single powerful rocket. Without this successful mission concept, the United States may still have landed humans on the moon, but it probably would not have happened by the end of the 1960s as directed by President Kennedy. Credit: NASA
Date 4/6/09
The Road to Apollo
The most successful of the p …
4/21/09
Description The most successful of the pre-Apollo probes, Lunar Orbiter photographically mapped the equatorial regions of the moon. These maps, compiled at Langley, provided the detailed topographical information needed to pinpoint the best landing sites on the moon, including the exact spot in the Sea of Tranquility chosen for Apollo 11. Credit: NASA
Date 4/21/09
Apollo -- July 1969
Astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Al …
7/16/08
Description Astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon near the leg of the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph.
Date 7/16/08
Apollo -- November 1969
Astronaut Alan L. Bean, luna …
7/16/08
Description Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, deploys components of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package during the first Apollo 12 spacewalk on the moon. The photo was taken by astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., commander.
Date 7/16/08
Solar Power for Lunar Living
This artist's concept shows …
3/4/08
Description This artist's concept shows the deployment of solar arrays, which convert sunlight into electricity, on an initial lunar camp of the future. Immediately after landing, two large flexible solar arrays are rolled out "window-shade" fashion from the lander. One panel is tilted toward the eastern horizon, while the other faces west. This allows the array to produce power during the entire two-week stay without tracking the Sun. These arrays provide power while the astronauts scout the area and prepare the base. Later, the astronauts will set up a larger, Sun-tracking array to provide higher power levels. For exploration, surveying, and lunar prospecting, the astronauts can drive around in a battery-powered moon buggy. The buggy will have its own small solar array, which tops off the battery charge whenever the rover is parked. acrylic painting by Les Bossinas (Cortez III Service Corp.), 1990
Date 3/4/08
girl scouts, poetry
Wow! Apollo 11 It must have …
12/16/08
Description Wow! Apollo 11 It must have been like heaven Walking on the moon Aubrey, age 8, Illinois Neil Armstrong took this photo of Edwin "Buzz" Armstrong walking on the moon.
Date 12/16/08
Robot Demonstration
NASA Glenn Research Center's …
6/17/09
Description NASA Glenn Research Center's Mobile and Remote Sensing team demonstrates the Cratos robot for the local Department of Homeland Security office and local law enforcement bomb squads. Named for the Greek god of strength, Cratos originally was built to ascend and descend lunar craters, a capability necessary to search for water ice in permanently dark craters on the moon. The demonstration showed how a modified Cratos can retrieve soil samples for HAZMAT operations, put a smaller robot with a video camera on a bus to search for bombs and climb stairs to enter buildings. These remote control capabilities are designed to put distance between first responders and the natural and manmade disasters they may encounter. Photographer: Bridget Caswell (WYLE)
Date 6/17/09
Lunar Lander Model
This 1963 model depicts an e …
7/13/09
Description This 1963 model depicts an early Apollo lunar lander concept, called a "bug," landing on the moon. Engineers designed several possible vehicle shapes for both manned and unmanned landers. In 1961, Bruce Lundin, former director of NASA's Lewis Research Center (now Glenn), chaired the "Lundin Committee," a NASA study group that assessed a variety of ways to accomplish a lunar landing mission. Image credit: NASA
Date 7/13/09
Glenn 2008 Open House Image …
Visitors took a turn at cont …
6/13/08
Description Visitors took a turn at controlling Cratos, a small-scale tracked test rover, designed and built by Glenn engineers for studying various track designs and controls to safely descend Moon craters. Rovers like Cratos will be deployed to support the NASA Exploration Technology Development Program's In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) project for excavation of the moon's soil so that scientists can extract oxygen from minerals to sustain human outposts. A miniaturized version of Glenn's sand-filled SLOPE (Simulated Lunar Operations) facility was built in the Hangar so vistors could operate and test Cratos' maneuvers in a simulated lunar-surface environment. Image Credit: NASA/Imaging Technology Center &rsaquo, Return to Image Feature
Date 6/13/08
Centaur's Rocket Engine
In this image, engineers tes …
7/27/09
Description In this image, engineers test the RL-10 engine in NASA Lewis Research Center's (now Glenn's) Propulsion Systems Laboratory. Developed by Pratt & Whitney, the engine was designed to power the Centaur second-stage rocket. Centaur was responsible for sending the Surveyor spacecraft on its mission to land on the moon and explore the surface in the early stages of the Apollo Program. Image credit: NASA
Date 7/27/09
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