Examination of plants in lunar (germ free) soil in Plant Laboratory
Description
Dr. Charles Walkenshaw, Manned Spacecraft Center botanist, examines sorghum and tobacco plants in lunar (germ free) soil in the Plant Laboratory of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. The soil was brought back from the Moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts.
Date Taken
1969-10-08
John Glenn enters his Friend
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Title
John Glenn enters his Friendship 7 capsule
Full Description
Project Mercury astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. enters his Mercury ?Friendship 7? capsule before launch on February 20, 1962. At 9:47 a.m. (EST), his Atlas launch vehicle lifted him into orbit for his flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds. Onboard Friendship 7, Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, and the third American to fly in space. A faulty signal indicating a problem with the heat shield forced NASA mission controllers to cut the flight to only three orbits, but Glenn returned to Earth safely.
Date
02/20/1967
NASA Center
Johnson Space Center
Food packets for use on the
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Title
Food packets for use on the Gemini 3 flight
Description
Food packets for use on the Gemini 3 flight including dehydrated beef pot roast, bacon and egg bites, toasted bread cubes, orange juice and a wet wipe. Water is being inserted into the pouch of dehydrated food.
Date Taken
1965-03-18
Astronaut James Lovell in 30
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Title
Astronaut James Lovell in 30-ft. Altitude Chamber
Description
Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., Gemini 12 prime crew pilot, simulates using space food packet while in the Gemini Spacecraft 12 in the 30-ft. Altitude Chamber at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, St. Louis, MO.
Date Taken
1966-08-15
Astronauts Stafford and Slay
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Title
Astronauts Stafford and Slayton visit Soviet Soyuz spacecraft
Description
Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, left, NASA ASTP crew commander, and Donald K. Slayton, docking module pilot, visit the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft during the joint phase of the ASTP mission. They hold Soviet containers of borsh (beet soup) over which vodka labels have been pasted. This was the crew's way of toasting each other. The photo was taken in the Orbital Module portion of the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft. The hatch to the Soyuz Descent Vehicle is in center background.
Date Taken
1975-07-17
Astronaut Eugene Cernan eati
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Title
Astronaut Eugene Cernan eating a meal aboard Apollo 17 spacecraft
Description
A fellow crewman took this photograph of Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 mission commander, eating a meal under the weightless conditions of space during the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program. Cernan appears to be eating chocolate pudding.
Date Taken
1972-12-17
General Description
STS-105 Shuttle Mission Imagery
Tomatoes in Space
Name of Image
Tomatoes in Space
Date of Image
2004-04-15
Full Description
BioServe researcher Dr. Yi Li first flew plant experiments on board STS-63. Li discovered that exposure to microgravity increased a particular hormone concentration in plants. Since that time, Li has been able to manipulate this phenomenon and grow fruits, such as tomatoes, that overproduce the hormone, and these plants bear larger seedless fruit in the absence of pollination.
Potatoes in Space
Name of Image
Potatoes in Space
Date of Image
2004-04-15
Full Description
Astroculture is a suite of technologies used to produce and maintain a closed controlled environment for plant growth. The two most recent missions supported growth of potato, dwarf wheat, and mustard plants and provided scientists with the first opportunity to conduct true plant research in space. Light emitting diodes have particular usefulness for plant growth lighting because they emit a much smaller amount of radiant heat than do conventional lighting sources and because they have potential of directing a higher percentage of the emitted light onto plants surfaces. Furthermore, the high output LED's have emissions in the 600-700 nm waveband, which is of highest efficiency for photosynthesis by plants.
Ames Research Center views o
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Title
Ames Research Center views of Oats, Slash-Pine and Mung bean seedlings STS-3
Description
Young oat seedlings are shown in a ground laboratory after being flown into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-3 in March of 1982. All plants were part of the experimental Plant Growth Unit. They appear to have grown to look similar to the control seedlings on earth. A few small roots can be seen growing upward from the soil (33915), Young slash-pine seedlings are shown upon returning from the STS-3 mission (33916), Mung bean seedlings are shown after their return from space aboard the STS-3 (37917).
Date Taken
1982-07-20
Food package used in emergen
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Title
Food package used in emergency supplied by Mercury astronauts
Description
A foil wrapped food package used by Mercury astronauts as part of their emergency survival supplies.
Date Taken
1962-10-23
General Description
International Space Station Imagery
General Description
International Space Station Imagery
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