Spaceship

Space & Cosmos

NEO Surveying Equipment Enclosure Tested in a Historic Room for Apollo Spaceship Test

Credit: NASA The object surveyor’s instrument enclosure near NASA was prepared for a critical environmental test in December 2024 in the Historic Room A of the Space Environment Simulation Institute, located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The 12-foot-long (3.7 meters) angle structure wrapped in a silver heat blanket exposed the spacecraft to the frigid, airless conditions experienced in…