The Glenn Extreme Environment Chamber (GEER) simulates the extreme conditions found in space and tests many devices that will explore Venus to see if they can withstand the punishing environment and temperatures over 800 degrees F.
NASA Glenn research engineers prepare our extreme environments chamber (GEER) for a test. GEER, which simulates the extreme conditions found in space, tests many devices that will explore Venus to see if they can withstand the punishing environment and temperatures over 800˚F.
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Tech Talk on Extreme Rovers: Unveiling the latest findings of Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments shown in the Immersve Theater NASA Ames Exploration Center Bldg 943A KbalidAl-Ali CMU - West gives presentation on 'Practical Rover Technology'
Tech Talk on Extreme Rovers: Unveiling the latest findings of Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments shown in the Immersve Theater NASA Ames Exploration Center Bldg 943A Dr Chris McKay of Ames offers open discussion about rovers in the exporation of Earth, the Moon and Mars.
Tech Talk on Extreme Rovers: Unveiling the latest findings of Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments shown in the Immersve Theater NASA Ames Exploration Center Bldg 943A Michael Sims, NASA Ames gives a presentation on 'Operating Rovers on Mars'
Tech Talk on Extreme Rovers: Unveiling the latest findings of Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments shown in the Immersve Theater NASA Ames Exploration Center Bldg 943A Dr Chris McKay of Ames offers open discussion about rovers in the exporation of Earth, the Moon and Mars.
Tech Talk on Extreme Rovers: Unveiling the latest findings of Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments shown in the Immersve Theater NASA Ames Exploration Center Blsg 943A. Introduction by NASA Astronaut Yvonne Cagle on assignment at Ames Research Center.
Tech Talk on Extreme Rovers: Unveiling the latest findings of Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments shown in the Immersve Theater NASA Ames Exploration Center Bldg 943A Dr Chris McKay of Ames offers open discussion about rovers in the exporation of Earth, the Moon and Mars.
Tech Talk on Extreme Rovers: Unveiling the latest findings of Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments shown in the Immersve Theater NASA Ames Exploration Center Bldg 943A Michael Sims, NASA Ames gives a presentation on 'Operating Rovers on Mars'
Tech Talk on Extreme Rovers: Unveiling the latest findings of Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments shown in the Immersve Theater NASA Ames Exploration Center Bldg 943A KbalidAl-Ali CMU - West gives presentation on 'Practical Rover Technology'
Tech Talk on Extreme Rovers: Unveiling the latest findings of Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments shown in the Immersve Theater NASA Ames Exploration Center Bldg 943A KbalidAl-Ali CMU - West gives presentation on 'Practical Rover Technology'
Tech Talk on Extreme Rovers: Unveiling the latest findings of Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments shown in the Immersve Theater NASA Ames Exploration Center Bldg 943A Dr Chris McKay of Ames offers open discussion about rovers in the exporation of Earth, the Moon and Mars.
Tech Talk on Extreme Rovers: Unveiling the latest findings of Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments shown in the Immersve Theater NASA Ames Exploration Center Bldg 943A Dr Chris McKay of Ames offers open discussion about rovers in the exporation of Earth, the Moon and Mars.
Tech Talk on Extreme Rovers: Unveiling the latest findings of Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments shown in the Immersve Theater NASA Ames Exploration Center Bldg 943A Dr Chris McKay of Ames offers open discussion about rovers in the exporation of Earth, the Moon and Mars.
This image zooms in on the region around the first hot DOG red object in magenta circle, discovered by NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Hot DOGs are hot dust-obscured galaxies.
STS79-E-5275 (16 - 26 September 1996) --- Aboard the Spacehab double module in the Space Shuttle Atlantis' cargo bay, astronaut Jerome (Jay) Apt, mission specialist, checks a sample from the Extreme Temperature Translation Furnace (ETTF) experiment. The photograph was taken with the Electronic Still Camera (ESC).
NASA image release September 25, 2012 Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe. Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The XDF is a small fraction of the angular diameter of the full moon. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation Fornax, created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. By collecting faint light over many hours of observation, it revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the universe ever taken at that time. The new full-color XDF image is even more sensitive, and contains about 5,500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see. To read more go to:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/xdf.html Credit: NASA; ESA; G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch, University of California, Santa Cruz; R. Bouwens, Leiden University; and the HUDF09 Team <b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html" rel="nofollow">NASA image use policy.</a></b> <b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html" rel="nofollow">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. <b>Follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a></b> <b>Like us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a></b> <b>Find us on <a href="http://instagrid.me/nasagoddard/?vm=grid" rel="nofollow">Instagram</a></b>
At Launch Complex 17 Pad A, Kennedy Space Center (KSC) workers are installing the payload fairing around the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) mated to a Delta II rocket. The EUVE spacecraft is designed to study the extreme ultraviolet portion of the spectrum.
Glenn's Extreme Environment Rig, GEER Mass Spectrometer
This photograph shows Skylab's Extreme Ultraviolet (XUV) Spectroheliograph during an acceptance test and checkout procedures in April 1971. The unit was an Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) instrument designed to sequentially photograph the solar chromosphere and corona in selected ultraviolet wavelengths. The instrument also obtained information about composition, temperature, energy conversion and transfer, and plasma processes of the chromosphere and lower corona. The Marshall Space Flight Center had program management responsibility for the development of Skylab hardware and experiments.
This chart describes Skylab's Extreme Ultraviolet (XUV) Coronal Spectroheliograph, one of the eight Apollo Telescope Mount facilities. It was designed to sequentially photograph the solar chromosphere and corona in selected ultraviolet wavelengths . The instrument also obtained information about composition, temperature, energy conversion and transfer, and plasma processes of the chromosphere and lower corona. The Marshall Space Flight Center had program management responsibility for the development of Skylab hardware and experiments.
This artist concept depicts the pulsar planet system discovered by Aleksander Wolszczan in 1992. Wolszczan used the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to find three planets circling a pulsar called PSR B1257+12.
This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows the brightest area seen on asteroid Vesta so far. It shows a crater located inside the rim of the Rheasilvia basin at the south pole of Vesta.
Phil Neudeck- Can Take the Heat When it comes to the heat of extreme environments like Venus, electronics can get fried within a few minutes of arrival. But NASA Researcher Phil Neudeck and his team have developed extremely durable silicon carbide semiconductor integrated circuits to survive those harsh conditions. After successfully testing the electronics in our high-pressure, high-temperature extreme environments chamber, there is now a path forward for Venus landers to survive and operate scientific experiments on the planet’s surface for longer durations.
Daniel Gerges, Technician, poses for a portrait in the Glenn Extreme Environments Rig, GEER Lab
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows a computer simulation of the planet HD 80606b from an observer located at a point in space lying between the Earth and the HD 80606 system.
An extreme enhancement of the original image, presented at right, reveals the grainy region with greater clarity
This extreme false-color view of Hyperion shows color variation across the impact-blasted surface of the tumbling moon
This extreme false-color view of Mimas shows color variation across the moon surface
These two global images of Iapetus taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft show the extreme brightness dichotomy on the surface of this peculiar Saturnian moon.
An extreme false-color view of Tethys reveals a surface detail not visible in a monochrome view taken at the same time
Juno testing in Glenn Extreme Environments Rig, GEER Laboratory. Juno is a solar-powered NASA spacecraft that spans the width of a basketball court and makes long, looping orbits around giant planet Jupiter
Iapetus is a moon of extreme contrasts. The light and dark features give the moon a distinctive yin and yang appearance in this image from NASA Cassini spacecraft.
The highest tides on Earth occur in the Minas Basin, the eastern extremity of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada. This image was acquired by NASA Terra spacecraft.
This composite image combines NASA Extreme Ultravoilet Imaging Telescope images from three wavelengths into one that reveals solar features unique to each wavelength.
Rhea displays a marked color contrast from north to south that is particularly easy to see in the extreme color-enhanced Cassini spacecraft view presented here
This MOC image shows an example of the extremely odd, seemingly scrambled layered rocks exposed by erosion near the deepest part of the deepest basin on Mars, Hellas
Astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds the size of Earth -- one of the smallest on record.
This artist concept illustrates the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, discovered by NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of NASA WISE mission. The asteroid is shown in gray and its extreme orbit is shown in green. Objects are not drawn to scale.
This electron microscope image shows extremely tiny tubular structures that are possible microscopic fossils of bacteria-like organisms that may have lived on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00285
Two extremely bright stars illuminate a greenish mist in this image from the new GLIMPSE360 survey from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. The fog is comprised of hydrogen and carbon compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
This pair of images, acquired 16 days apart by NASA Terra satellite in 2002 and 2007, covers the Liaoning region of China and parts of northern and western Korea, comparing a relatively clear day and an extremely dusty day.
NASA Terra spacecraft shows that extremely heavy seasonal rains have fallen on northern Bolivia since October 2013. The worst affected province is Beni in the northeastern part of the country.
NASA Terra spacecraft passed over the Blue Mountains to the west and north of Sydney, A mild winter and an extremely hot September in Australia have led to an early start to the fire season.
Astronomers using NASA Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies residing 10 billion light-years away.
This plot illustrates the new population of hot DOGs, or hot dust-obscured objects, found by WISE. The purple band represents the range of brightness observed for the extremely dusty objects.
Extremely heavy rains fell at the end of February 2012 in the northern Algerian province of El Tarf, near the Tunisian border. The rainfall total was the greatest recorded in the last 30 years. This image is from NASA Terra spacecraft.
This feature from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter looks like a heart. It is located south of Ascraeus Mons, which is a large volcano within the Tharsis volcanic plateau, making it extremely likely that this feature was formed by a volcanic process.
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of valleys west of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. They are so named because of their extremely low humidity and lack of snow and ice cover. This image was acquired December 8, 2002 by NASA Terra spacecraft.
Lycus Sulci is an extremely complex region surrounding the western and northern flanks of Olympus Mons. With a multitude of fault formed cliff faces, dark slope streaks are a common occurrence. This image was captured by NASA Mars Odyssey.
This electron microscope image shows tubular structures of likely Martian origin. These structures are very similar in size and shape to extremely tiny microfossils found in some Earth rocks. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00287
NASA WISE has identified about 1,000 extremely obscured objects over the sky, as marked by the magenta symbols. These hot dust-obscured galaxies, or hot DOGs, are turning out to be among the most luminous.
A large crater can be seen in the southern hemisphere of Saturn two-tone moon Iapetus. Lit terrain seen here is on the trailing hemisphere while the leading hemisphere is extremely dark and whose trailing hemisphere is as white as snow.
NASA Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope aboard ESA’s SOHO spacecraft took this image of a huge, handle-shaped prominence in 1999. Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool dense plasma suspended in the Sun hot, thin corona.
Saturn small, ring-embedded moon Pan, on the extreme right of this NASA Cassini spacecraft image, can be seen interacting with the ringlets that share the Encke Gap of the A ring with this moon.
This set of images from the radar instrument on NASA Cassini spacecraft shows a relatively fresh crater called Sinlap left and an extremely degraded crater called Soi right.
This STS-80 onboard photograph shows the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle Pallet Satellite II (ORFEUS-SPAS II), photographed during approach by the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia for retrieval. Built by the German Space Agency, DARA, the ORFEUS-SPAS II, a free-flying satellite, was dedicated to astronomical observations at very short wavelengths to: investigate the nature of hot stellar atmospheres, investigate the cooling mechanisms of white dwarf stars, determine the nature of accretion disks around collapsed stars, investigate supernova remnants, and investigate the interstellar medium and potential star-forming regions. Some 422 observations of almost 150 astronomical objects were completed, including the Moon, nearby stars, distant Milky Way stars, stars in other galaxies, active galaxies, and quasar 3C273. The STS-80 mission was launched November 19, 1996.
This profile perspective of an active region revealed above it (June 24-25, 2018). Charged particles spinning along these field lines are illuminated in this wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. The little Earth superimposed on the image and videos gives one a sense of just how humongous these loops really are. Our eyes cannot see extreme ultraviolet light, but our instruments can. The images are colorized to distinguish between these from images taken in other wavelengths by SDO. Note there is another, smaller active region on the left side of the image. Movies are available at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22589
This graphic illustrates how a faraway quasar (an extremely bright region in the center of some distant galaxies) is altered by a massive foreground galaxy. The galaxy's powerful gravity warps and magnifies the quasar's light, producing four distorted images of the quasar. Dark matter is an invisible substance that makes up the bulk of the universe's mass and creates the scaffolding upon which galaxies are built. Quadruple images of a quasar rare because the background quasar and foreground galaxy require an almost perfect alignment. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23641
iss059e092346 (6/6/2019) --- A view of the Hardened Extremely Long-life Information in Optical Storage (HELIOS) case aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Hardened Extremely Long-life Information in Optical Storage (HELIOS) tests whether a data storage medium is resistant to space radiation.
Astronaut Jerome Apt works at the Extreme Temperature Translation Furnace.
Materials and Structures for Extreme Environments - THERMAL BARRIER COATED SUPER ALLOY
Glenn Extreme Environments Rig, GEER, Test Chamber, recreate Venus conditions on Earth, photos of insulation construction progress
Glenn Extreme Environments Rig, GEER, Test Chamber, recreate Venus conditions on Earth, photos of insulation construction progress
Glenn Extreme Environments Rig, GEER, Test Chamber, recreate Venus conditions on Earth, photos of insulation construction progress
Glenn Extreme Environments Rig, GEER, Test Chamber used to create Venus Conditions on Earth
Glenn Extreme Environments Rig, GEER, Test Chamber used to create Venus Conditions on Earth
Glenn Extreme Environments Rig, GEER, Test Chamber, recreate Venus conditions on Earth, photos of insulation construction progress
Amber Straughn talks about the extreme temperatures the Webb telescope must withstand in space.
Glenn Extreme Environments Rig, GEER, Test Chamber used to create Venus Conditions on Earth
This 3-D anaglyph, from NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows an extreme close-up of round, blueberry-shaped grains on the crater floor near the rock outcrop at Meridiani Planum called Stone Mountain. 3D glasses are necessary.
This illustration shows one possible scenario for the hot, rocky exoplanet called 55 Cancri e, which is nearly two times as wide as Earth. New data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope show that the planet has extreme temperature swings.
A scaffolding structure built around NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer allows engineers to freeze its hydrogen coolant. The WISE infrared instrument is kept extremely cold by a bottle-like tank filled with frozen hydrogen, called the cryostat.
This graph, or spectrum, from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, charts light from a faraway galaxy located 10 billion light years from Earth. It tracks mid-infrared light from an extremely luminous galaxy when the universe was only 1/4 of its current age.
This artist concept illustrates what the flaring black hole called GX 339-4 might look like. Infrared observations from NASA WISE reveal the best information yet on the chaotic and extreme environments of this black hole jets.
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a long coronal hole has rotated so that was temporarily facing right towards Earth Mar. 23-25, 2016. Coronal holes appear dark when viewed in some wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light.
This is 3-D anaglyph, from NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows an extreme close-up of round, blueberry-shaped grains on the crater floor near the rock outcrop at Meridiani Planum called Stone Mountain. 3D glasses are necessary.
This 3-D anaglyph, from NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows an extreme close-up of round, blueberry-shaped grains on the crater floor near the rock outcrop at Meridiani Planum called Stone Mountain. 3D glasses are necessary.
This image, from NASA Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows a scarp upper left corner of the image about 130 kilometers long cutting two craters older crater is at extreme left corner, younger is diagonally below.
Robert Bobo, standing extreme right, and technicians view as SLS Intertank Test Article, ITA, is attached to crosshead of load test Annex, Bldg. 4619
jsc2023e031745 (6/7/2023) --- Prototype of the Wearable Device for the Demonstration of a Wearable for Space and Extreme Environments (SpaceWear Monitor) investigation. Image courtesy of Danish Aerospace Company.
Image of the Moon transiting across the Sun, taken by SDO in 304 angstrom extreme ultraviolet light on August 21, 2017. Credit: NASA/SDO
Image of the Moon transiting across the Sun, taken by SDO in 171 angstrom extreme ultraviolet light on August 21, 2017. Credit: NASA/SDO
AS16-118-18947 (16-27 April 1972) --- A 250mm view looking north by westward across lunar farside highland terrain, as photographed from the Apollo 16 spacecraft in lunar orbit. The frame is centered at approximately 158 degrees east longitude and 17 degrees north latitude. Van Gent Crater is the lower of two large craters at extreme lower right corner. The top of the two craters is unnamed. The west part of Konstantinov Crater is at extreme right center. Nagaoka Crater is just below the horizon at upper left.
Astro, the robot dog conducts inspections in building 64 to spare the employees ears in this extremely loud environment. The facility is extremely loud even with double hearing protection, so Glenn has come up with an alternative to keep the employees safe. Astro is operated by staff via remote control, is fitted with an infrared camera with 40 times zoom, utilizes thermography and a microphone and can navigate all three levels of the facility.
STS054-152-001 (13-19 Jan 1993) --- View southeastward across the northern, arid coastal plain of Somalia from Dhul Hafun (Hafun Peninsula) on the extreme left to Ras (Cape) Illig on the extreme right. There are no good harbors, no permanent streams, and few people in this 200-mile-wide expanse of dry coastal Plain. The cloud line offshore marks the limit of offshore breeze, and provides a partial explanation of the lack of rain in this region.
NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission wants to see your best photos of winter weather! You can submit your images to the contest here: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gpm-extreme-weather/">www.flickr.com/groups/gpm-extreme-weather/</a> To read more about this image and or to see the high res file go to: <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80082" rel="nofollow">earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80082</a>
GREENBELT, Md. -- At NASA’s Goddard space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., a fully integrated Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer EUVE is seen in a clean room. EUVE will map the entire sky to determine the existence, direction, brightness and temperature of numerous objects that are sources of extreme ultraviolet radiation. Goddard is responsible for the design, construction, integration, checkout and operation of the spacecraft which is scheduled to launch May 28, 1992 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a Delta II rocket. Photo Credit: NASA
The three thrust-vectoring aircraft at Edwards, California, each capable of flying at extreme angles of attack, cruise over the California desert in formation during flight in March 1994. They are, from left, NASA's F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV), flown by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center; the X-31, flown by the X-31 International Test Organization (ITO) at Dryden; and the Air Force F-16 Multi-Axis Thrust Vectoring (MATV) aircraft.
The three thrust-vectoring aircraft at Edwards, California, each capable of flying at extreme angles of attack, cruise over the California desert in formation during flight in March 1994. They are, from left, NASA's F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV), flown by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center; the X-31, flown by the X-31 International Test Organization (ITO) at Dryden; and the Air Force F-16 Multi-Axis Thrust Vectoring (MATV) aircraft.
Lake Fitri is located in the center of Chad. It is fed by seasonal rainfall, so its area can triple in wet years. In extreme drought years, the lake may dry out completely. Wadi Batha empties into the lake from the east, and has created a large delta. Inundated linear sand dunes are found in the western and southwestern part of the image. The image was acquired May 19, 2017, covers an area of 48.9 by 48.9 km, and is located at 12.7 degrees north, 17.5 degrees east. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24018
This mosaic image shows an extreme close-up of round, blueberry-shaped formations in the martian soil near a part of the rock outcrop at Meridiani Planum called Stone Mountain. Scientists are studying these curious formations for clues about the area's past environmental conditions. The image, one of the highest resolution images ever taken by the microscopic imager, an instrument located on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's instrument deployment device or "arm." http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05273
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observes the Sun in ten different wavelengths because each wavelength reveals different solar features. Here, we have selected two images taken at virtually the same time but in different wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light. The red tinted image, which captures material not far above the Sun's surface, is especially good for revealing details along the edge of the Sun, like the small prominence at the ten o'clock position. The brown tinted image clearly shows two large coronal holes (darker areas) as well as some faint magnetic field lines and hints of solar activity (lighter areas), neither of which are apparent in the red image. This activity is occurring somewhat higher in the Sun's corona. In a way it is like peeling away the layers of an onion, a little at a time. Animations are available at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22724
STS080-719-005 (19 Nov.-7 Dec. 1996) --- The Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle Pallet Satellite (ORFEUS-SPAS) appears suspended in space during approach by the space shuttle Columbia.
STS79-E-5019 (17 September 1996) --- Astronaut Jerome (Jay) Apt inserts experiment into Extreme Temperature Translation Furnace (ETTF) furnace, onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, on Flight Day 2.
jsc2023e031744 (5/24/2023) --- Preflight image of a Wearable for Space and Extreme Environments (SpaceWear Monitor) chest strap with SpaceWear unit mounted. Image courtesy of Danish Aerospace Company.
Like many chemicals in the body, the three-dimensional structure of insulin is extremely complex. When grown on the ground, insulin crystals do not grow as large or as ordered as researchers desire--obscuring the blueprint of the insulin molecules.
Yuri's Night at Ames a celebration of the first human in space. Ames Planetary Scientist with the Space Science Division Dr Chris McKay addresses a audience about Mars and life in extreme environments.
S70-35595 (18 April 1970) --- President Richard M. Nixon is welcomed to Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) and introduced by Dr. Thomas O. Paine, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The First Lady is at extreme left. Others on the speakers platform in this view are Barbara and Jeffrey C. Lovell, children of astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., commander; and Eugene F. Kranz (extreme right), one of four flight directors on duty around the clock during the mission. President Nixon was on the site to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Apollo 13 Mission Operations Team.