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Apollo CSM-008, a Block I Command and Service Module, being loaded on the work stand installation in bldg. 32, Chamber ''A'' of the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory, for thermal vacuum tests of the Apollo Command Module systems.

Date: May 18, 1966

NASA ID: S66-34205, S66-34207, S66-34211, S66-34212, S66-34213, S66-34214, S66-42570

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Timelapse: de James Webb Space Telescope in de vriezer

Afgelopen negen maanden is de James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), de opvolger van de Hubble Space Telescope (HST), in NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Texas geweest, om daar uitvoerig getest te worden om te kijken of ‘ie bestand is tegen de lancering, de reis naar Lagrangepunt 2 en het langdurig verblijf aldaar in de ruimte. Deel van die testen waren de zogeheten cryogenische testen, waarbij…

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James Webb Telescope 'Pathfinder' Replica Completes First Cryogenic Optics Test

James Webb Telescope ‘Pathfinder’ Replica Completes First Cryogenic Optics Test

The ‘Pathfinder’ enters Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn If there is one mantra that drives the development of space mission projects, it’s ‘test, test, test’. Before every successful manned or robotic mission has ever flown to space countless man-hours were devoted for extensive and rigorous testing on the ground in order to ensure that every piece of…

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