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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. - Inside Orbital Sciences’ Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, this photo shows two of the Space Technology 5 (ST5) spacecraft's microsatellites mounted on the payload structure that is mated to the Orbital Sciences' Pegasus XL launch vehicle. The ST5 contains three microsatellites with miniaturized redundant components and technologies. Each will validate New Millennium Program selected technologies, such as the Cold Gas Micro-Thruster and X-Band Transponder Communication System. After deployment from the Pegasus, the micro-satellites will be positioned in a “string of pearls” constellation that demonstrates the ability to position them to perform simultaneous multi-point measurements of the magnetic field using highly sensitive magnetometers. The data will help scientists understand and map the intensity and direction of the Earth’s magnetic field, its relation to space weather events, and affects on our planet. With such missions, NASA hopes to improve scientists’ ability to accurately forecast space weather and minimize its harmful effects on space- and ground-based systems. Launch of ST5 is scheduled from the belly of an L-1011 carrier aircraft no earlier than March 14 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. KSC-06pd0432

ENGINE INSTALLATION, NASA Technology Images

STS092-354-033 - STS-092 - IMV duct cap

The main rotor assembly from an RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter. Personnel from Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) are preparing the RH-53D for loading aboard a C-5A Galaxy aircraft during Operation INTENSE LOOK

STS098-325-030 - STS-098 - View of ISS during approach

SBB Historic - PL 166 00002 Ee-3-3-16350-SBB 01

TURBINE BLADE PYRO BOX, NASA Technology Images

TF-30 P9 ENGINE INSTALLATION - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

Magnet for proton synchrotron in Brookhaven, Aneka Amerika 102 (1957), p20

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The MEPHISTO experiment is a cooperative American and French investigation of the fundamentals of crystal growth. MEPHISTO is a French-designed and built materials processing furnace. MEPHISTO experiments study solidation (also called freezing) during the growth cycle of liquid materials used for semiconductor crystals. Solidification is the process where materials change from liquid (melt) to solid. An example of the solidification process is water changing into ice.

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science microgravity mephisto mockup msfc marshall space flight center materials mephisto experiments study solidation mephisto experiment materials change solidification process mephisto growth cycle french investigation growth semiconductor crystals solidification process nasa
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17/12/1987
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Marshall Spaceflight Center, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, United States, 35808 ,  34.63076, -86.66505
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label_outline Explore Semiconductor Crystals, Solidification, Mephisto

Blitz buggies. After it has been totally assembled, the car is painted. Here the paint is being drilled under infrared rays, which process dries the paint from the inside out, thus giving it a slicker finish. Ford River Rouge plant

Mephisto walzer, 2ter - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

Saturn V - Saturn Apollo Program

STS062-16-035 - STS-062 - Columbia's payload bay with USMP-2 and GAS canisters

2 HIGH TEMPERATURE PRESSURE FURNACES IN THE MATERIALS AND STRESSES M&S BUILDING ROOM 31

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – As part of NASA's Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a large space shuttle-era work platform is being lowered and removed from high bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB. The work is part of a center-wide modernization and refurbishment initiative to accommodate NASA’s Space Launch System and a variety of other spacecraft instead of the whole building supporting one design. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is developing the necessary ground systems, infrastructure and operational approaches required to safely process, assemble, transport and launch the next generation of rockets and spacecraft in support of NASA’s exploration objectives. Future work also will replace the antiquated communications, power and vehicle access resources with modern efficient systems. Some of the utilities and systems slated for replacement have been used since the VAB opened in 1965. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/ground/index.html Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2012-5965

S89E5329 - STS-089 - MGM - MS Reilly holds a container used in the MGM experiment

STS050-47-032 - STS-050 - Makeshift worktable attached to spacelab rack # 7, Crystal Growth Furnace.

STS077-319-004 - STS-077 - GPPM - Gas Permeable Polymer Materials experiment

SRA John Thomas, automatic digital switching specialist, and SRA Debra Nixon, traffic analysis clerk, process incoming traffic at the Base Telecommunications Center, 1974th Communications Group, Air Force Communications Command (AFCC). Another enlisted man works in the background

Mephisto walzer, 2ter - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

STS070-326-036 - STS-070 - Bioreactor Demonstration System (BDS) cell culture growth cylinder

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science microgravity mephisto mockup msfc marshall space flight center materials mephisto experiments study solidation mephisto experiment materials change solidification process mephisto growth cycle french investigation growth semiconductor crystals solidification process nasa