Astronaut Training Sessions

Photos documenting various astronaut training exercises, including EVA preparation and equipment handling at NASA facilities.

PHOTO DATE: 05-19-14LOCATION: Bldg. 4south, Room 1303SUBJECT: Soyuz 40 (Expedition 42) Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaye during Camcorder EQ training with instructor Steve Berenzweig.

JSC2010-E-183524 (3 Nov. 2010) --- NASA astronauts Rex Walheim (left), STS-135 mission specialist; and Doug Hurley, pilot, participate in an EVA Thermal Protection System (TPS) overview training session in the TPS/ Precision Air Bearing Facility in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program.

JSC2014-E-049688 (19 April 2014) --- Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Alexander Samokutyaev of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) participates in a camcorder equipment training session in the Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center.

PHOTO DATE: 01-28-10LOCATION: Bldg. 9 - VR Lab SUBJECT: STS-132 crew during their MSS/SIMP EVA3 OPS 4 training with Expedition 23 crew member Tracy Caldwell Dyson. Instructor is Madhurita Sengupta.

Photo date: 12-08-2009Location: B9NW ISS MockupSubject: STS130 Transfer Training

DATE: 5-8-12LOCATION: Bldg. NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 35/36 crew training (Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and Chris Cassidy) during emergency scenarios training in the ISS mockups with Station Training Lead, Lucia McCullough.

PHOTO DATE: 05-19-14LOCATION: Bldg. 4south, Room 1303SUBJECT: Soyuz 40 (Expedition 42) Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaye during Camcorder EQ training with instructor Steve Berenzweig.

JSC2008-E-008417 (29 Jan. 2008) --- Astronaut Michael T. Good (left), STS-125 mission specialist, participates in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center. United Space Alliance (USA) instructor David L. Williams (center) assisted Good.

PHOTO DATE: 05-14-10LOCATION: Bldg. 30 south - WFCRSUBJECT: STS-132/ULF4 WFCR Flight Controllers on Console During Launch with Flight Director Richard Jones

JSC2009-E-244192 (23 Nov. 2009) --- Astronaut George Zamka (right), STS-130 commander; along with astronauts Robert Behnken (center), Stephen Robinson (standing) and Nicholas Patrick, all mission specialists, participate in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

PHOTO DATE:04-23-09LOCATION: PRESS BRIEFING ROOMSUBJECT: Photographic coverage of STS-125 Press Conference

PHOTO DATE: 09-17-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 40/41 emergency scenario crew training with crew members Maxim Suraev, Alexander Gerst and Reid Wiseman.

Date: 08-21-14Location: Bldg 36, 131Subject: ESA Astronaut Andreas Mogensen and NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik during NEEMO 19 communications training with instructors Marcum Reagan and Barbara Janoiko

PHOTO DATE: 01-28-10LOCATION: Bldg. 9 - VR Lab SUBJECT: STS-132 crew during their MSS/SIMP EVA3 OPS 4 training with Expedition 23 crew member Tracy Caldwell Dyson. Instructor is Madhurita Sengupta.

PHOTO DATE: 21 January 2014LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW, Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facility - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 41 six person crew emergency training scenarios. Crewmembers: 39S/Suraev, Wiseman and Gerst along with 40S/Wilmore, Samokutyaev, and Serova.

Photographic coverage of Expedition 37 flight controllers on console with Flight Director's Jerry Jason and Tony Ceccacci during the undocking of Europe's 4th Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) from the International Space Station. Photo Date: October 28, 2013. Location: Building 30 - FCR1.

DATE: 1-24-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 38 crew members, Kotov, Ryazansky and Mike Hopkins during Emergency Scenarios Training in the ISS mockups.

PHOTO DATE: 01-05-10LOCATION: BLDG 4SSUBJECT: STS-133 (Last Shuttle Mission) crew during their meeting with their scheduler Dale Williamson to mark the start of their training.WORK ORDER: 0021-STS133-01-05-10

JSC2011-E-058623 (24 June 2011) --- NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson (seated left), STS-135 commander; and Doug Hurley, pilot, participate in a flight data file review in the Flight Operations Facility at NASAs Johnson Space Center. Instructor Sandy Wayne assisted Ferguson and Hurley.

STS-38 crewmembers listen as RSOC-JSC crew trainer M. Judy Alexander explains the camera equipment they will be using on their upcoming Department of Defense (DOD) mission. Left to right are Pilot Frank L. Culbertson, Mission Specialist (MS) Carl J. Meade, and MS Charles D. Gemar. Alexander is holding a training version of the 70mm handheld HASSELBLAD camera.

JSC2000-E-22287 (8 September 2000) --- Flight controllers in Houston await the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. From the left are astronauts Dominic L. Gorie and Christopher J. Loria, both at the Spacecraft Communicator (CAPCOM) console; and Wayne Hale at the Flight Director console. The Space Shuttle later launched on schedule, at 8:46 a.m. (EDT), September 8, 2000, as the Johnson Space Center (JSC) flight control team took the baton from KSC's launch controllers.

The Orion team (including JSC Director Ellen Ochoa, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Operations Directorate William Gerstenmaier) discuss Orion operations in Building AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, 2014. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

PHOTO DATE: 11-30-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS SRB Mockup SUBJECT: Expedition 40 crew members (Soyuz 39) Reid Wiseman and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst with Soyuz 38 crew member Steve Swanson during DEPRESS CREW RESPONSE/B9 SRB.

JSC2007-E-28291 (8 June 2007) --- In the space shuttle flight control room of Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center (MCC), astronauts Terry W. Virts Jr. (foreground) and Dominic A. (Tony) Antonelli, spacecraft communicators (CAPCOM), monitor launch countdown activities a few hundred miles away in Florida, site of Space Shuttle Atlantis' scheduled STS-117 launch. Liftoff occurred at 7:38 p.m. (EDT) on June 8, 2007 from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.

JSC2008-E-031810 (2 April 2008) --- Astronauts John M. Grunsfeld, STS-125 mission specialist, participates in an extravehicular activity (EVA) hardware training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Flight director Tony Ceccacci looks on.

PHOTO DATE: 11-08-12LOCATION: Bldg. 17, Rm 1070 - Food Lab SUBJECT: Expedition 41/42 crew members Barry Wilmore, Terry Virts and Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti during their food tasting in Bldg. 17.

Artemis I Launch Simulation. Wes Mosedale, technical assistant to the Artemis I launch director, monitors operations from his position in Firing Room 1 as Artemis teams conduct a launch simulation for the Artemis I mission inside the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 27, 2022. Artemis I will be the first integrated test of NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by launching Orion atop the SLS rocket, operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown. During the flight, Orion will launch atop the most powerful rocket in the world and fly farther than any human-rated spacecraft has ever flown, paving the way for human deep space exploration and demonstrating our commitment and capability to extend human presence t

NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 Launch. Steve Stich, manager of NASAs Commercial Crew Program, left, is seen along with Richard Jones, manager of the Mission Management and Integration Office for NASA's Commercial Crew Program and Dina Contella, operations integration manager for NASA's International Space Station Program Office, as they monitor the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 mission with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev onboard, Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the sixth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev launched at at 12:34

JSC2001-E-25114 (16 August 2001) --- Flight director John Shannon monitors data at his console in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houstons Mission Control Center (MCC). At the time this photo was taken, STS-105 mission specialists Daniel T. Barry and Patrick G. Forrester were performing the first of two scheduled space walks to perform work on the International Space Station (ISS).

STS029-S-040 (13 Mar 1989) --- Astronauts Frank R. Culbertson, left, and John O. Creighton man their spacecraft communicator console positions for the launch phase of the STS-29 mission.

JSC2011-E-005861 (19 Jan. 2011) --- NASA astronauts Mike Fossum (left), Expedition 28 flight engineer and Expedition 29 commander; Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus, both STS-135 mission specialists, participate in a joint emergency scenarios training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program.

JSC2010-E-087707 (25 May 2010) --- NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, STS-134 mission specialist, participates in a food tasting session in the Habitability and Environmental Factors Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Expedition 36 & 37 crew members during Emergency Scene - 6 Crew training in ISS Mockups. Photo Date: January 15, 2013. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

JSC2008-E-008421 (29 Jan. 2008) --- The STS-125 crewmembers participate in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center. Pictured from the left are astronauts John M. Grunsfeld, mission specialist; Scott D. Altman, commander; Andrew J. Feustel and Michael J. Massimino, both mission specialists.

JSC2010-E-132377 (16 July 2010) --- NASA astronauts Scott Kelly (left), Expedition 25 flight engineer and Expedition 26 commander; and Mark Kelly, STS-134 commander, are pictured during an emergency scenarios training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

JSC2002-E-39745 (26 September 2002) --- Astronauts Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper (left) and Joseph R. (Joe) Tanner, both STS-115 mission specialists, observe training activities of their crewmates from the simulation control area in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at the Sonny Carter Training Facility (SCTF) near the Johnson Space Center (JSC).

DATE: 7-3-13LOCATION: Bldg 9NW - ISS Mockups.SUBJECT: Expedition 36S crew members, Kotov, Ryazansky and Hopkins and 37S crew (Wakata, Tyurin, Mastracchio) during Emergency Scenarios Training.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-91 crew participate in the Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) for their upcoming Space Shuttle mission at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility in Cape Canaveral. The CEIT gives astronauts an opportunity to get a hands-on look at the payloads with which they will be working on-orbit. STS-91 will be the ninth and final scheduled Mir docking and will include a single module of SPACEHAB, used mainly as a large pressurized cargo container for science, logistical equipment and supplies to be exchanged between the orbiter Discovery and the Russian Space Station Mir. The nearly 10-day flight of STS-91 also is scheduled to include the return of the last astronaut to live and work aboard the Russian orbiting outpost, Mission Specialist Andy Thomas, Ph.D. Liftoff of Discovery and its six-member crew is targeted for May 28, 1998, at 8:05 p.m. EDT from Launch Pad 39A. From left to right are STS-91 Mission Specialist Janet Kavandi, Ph.D., STS091 Pilot Domi

Date: 07-16-13Location: Bldg 30 South, FCR-1Subject: Expedition 36 ISS flight controllers on console during EVA #23 with Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano.

DATE: 1-12-14LOCATION: Bldg. 30 - FCR-1 (30M/231)SUBJECT: Expedition 38 flight controllers during Orbital Sciences' Cygnus approaching ISS and being grappled.

STS-132 Press Conference. Photo Date: May 3, 2010. Location: Building 2N, Press Conference Room.

JSC2002-E-34631 (16 August 2002) --- Astronaut Piers J. Sellers, STS-112 mission specialist, is pictured during a mission training session at the Johnson Space Center (JSC).

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Dennis Morrison, senior biotech program scientist, talks to a reporter about an experiment recovered during the search for Columbia debris. He is the principle investigator on microencapsulation and urokinase crystal growth included in the Commercial ITA Biomedical Experiments payload on mission STS-107.

JSC2012-E-034223 (8 March 2012) --- NASA astronaut Joe Acaba (left), Expedition 31/32 flight engineer; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, Expedition 32/33 flight engineer, participate in an HTV rendezvous/deployment training session in the Jake Garn Simulation and Training Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Expedition 46 (Soyuz 45) crew members Tim Kopra, Tim Peake (ESA) and Yuri Malenchenko (RSA) with instructors Skyler LaBuff and Dave Wiedmeyer during Fire Scene Generic training in the Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facility (SVMTF) ISS mockups. Photo Date: September 26, 2014. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

Date: 01-18-13Location: Bldg 16, SES DomeSubject: Expedition 39 (Soyuz 37) crew members Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata during FF T&C/R MINI SIM 2 training in the building 16 dome with instructor Jeffery "Tux" Tuxhorn.Photogapher: James Blair

DATE: 3-15-11LOCATION: Building 9 - ISS MockupSUBJECT: Expedition 28/29 crew members during Docking Timeline Training.

PHOTO DATE:04-23-09LOCATION: PRESS BRIEFING ROOMSUBJECT: Photographic coverage of STS-125 Press Conference

DATE: 9-1-11LOCATION: Bldg. 5south, SSTFSUBJECT: Expedition 30 crew member and ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers training in SSTF near Columbia module on laptops with trainer Michaela Benda.

PHOTO DATE: 12-12-13 LOCATION: Bldg. 17, Rm 1070 - Food LabSUBJECT: Soyuz 45 crew members, Tim Kopra and ESA astronaut Tim Peake during food tasting.

Vice President Mike Pence, right, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, speak with Expedition 58 flight engineer Anne McClain of NASA, and flight engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) who are onboard the International Space Station, Wednesday, March 6, 2019 from the Space Operations Center at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Vice President Pence and Administrator Bridenstine spoke with the astronauts about the arrival of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft at the International Space Station.

STS-131 Flight Controllers on console during the launch of Discovery on STS-131. Photo Date: April 5, 2010. Location: Building 30 south - WFCR.

The Orion crew module flown on NASAs Pad Abort-1 (PA-1) flight test is shown on display and NASA Astronaut Nicholas Patrick speaks at an event at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona, on June 16, 2011. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A speaker talks with a group of Tweetup participants at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California during prelaunch activities for NASAs National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft mission. The tweeters will share their experiences with followers through the social networking site Twitter. NPP represents a critical first step in building the next-generation of Earth-observing satellites. NPP will carry the first of the new sensors developed for this satellite fleet, now known as the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) to be launched in 2016. NPP is the bridge between NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites and the forthcoming series of JPSS satellites. The mission will test key technologies and instruments for the JPSS missions. NPP is targeted to launch Oct. 28 from Space Launch Complex-2 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket.

PHOTO DATE: 07-10-14LOCATION: Bldg. 17, Room 1070 - Food Lab SUBJECT: Soyuz 43 (Expedition 44/45) crew members Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui during Food Tasting #2.

PHOTO DATE: 05-11-11LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 29/30 Emergency Ops training in ISS mockupsWORK ORDER: 2011-1190

JSC2009-E-223460 (16 Oct. 2009) --- The STS-129 crew members along with Public Affairs Office (PAO) moderator Nicole Cloutier are pictured during a preflight press conference at NASAs Johnson Space Center. From the second left are astronauts Charles O. Hobaugh, commander; Barry E. Wilmore, pilot; Leland Melvin, Randy Bresnik and Mike Foreman, all mission specialists. Astronaut Robert L. Satcher Jr., mission specialist, is out of frame.

JSC2012-E-215413 (12 Sept. 2012) --- Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Expedition 34/35 flight engineer, speaks to a crowd during a cake-cutting ceremony in the Jake Garn Simulation and Training Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, Expedition 34 flight engineer and Expedition 35 commander, is at right.

PHOTO DATE: 5-9-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: ISS Routine Ops training session with Butch Wilmore from Soyuz 40, Terry Virts and Samantha Cristoforetti from Soyuz 41 and Scott Kelly from Soyuz 42.

PHOTO DATE: 07-18-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 38 crew's Emergency Scenarios Training in SVMTF's ISS Mockups.

Artemis I Pre-Test Briefing. Artemis I team members conduct the Artemis I launch pre-test briefing on Nov. 12, 2022, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.

Teams conduct powerup and docking operations for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation (STORRM) in a payload support room at Johnson Space Centers Mission Control Center in Houston on May 17, 2011. STORMM was successfully demonstrated on Space Shuttle Endeavours STS-134 mission to the International Space Station. The goal of STORRM was to validate a new relative navigation sensor based on advanced laser and detector technology that will make docking and undocking spacecraft easier and safer. It also tested the hardware in the same environment that the sensors would experience on the first Orion rendezvous to another vehicle.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Neil Yorio, a Dynamac scientist (left) in the KSC Space Life Sciences (SLS) Lab, explains the function of the facility to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and his wife, Columba. Bush and others were touring the Lab following the launching ceremony at the KSC Visitor Complex for the new Florida quarter issued by the U.S. Mint. . The new lab is a state-of-the-art facility built for ISS biotechnology research. It was developed as a partnership between NASA-KSC and the State of Florida. The launching ceremony was emceed by Center Director Jim Kennedy and included remarks by NASA Administrator Sean OKeefe, Bush, U.S. Mint Director Henrietta Holsman Fore and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Samuel W. Bodman.

NASA Operation Project Engineer Rommel Rubio monitors operations from his position in Firing Room 1 at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Control Center during a countdown simulation for Exploration Mission 1. It was the agency's first simulation of a portion of the countdown for the first launch of a Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that will eventually take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit to destinations such as the Moon and Mars.

JSC2010-E-132379 (16 July 2010) --- NASA astronauts Scott Kelly (foreground), Expedition 25 flight engineer and Expedition 26 commander; and Mark Kelly, STS-134 commander, are pictured during an emergency scenarios training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

DATE: 3-22-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 34 crew Chris Hadfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn during emergency scenarios training in the ISS mockups with instructor Kathryn Bolt

MSL - Chemistry and Mineralogy Demo by David Blake

PHOTO DATE: 09-24-14 LOCATION: Bldg. 4south, Room 1303 SUBJECT: Expedition 43 crew members Terry Virts and Samantha Cristoforetti during camera review training with instructors Steve Berenzweig and Katrina Willougby.

Photo Date: 02-18-2010Location: Bldg. 9NWSubject: STS-133, Expedition 24 and 25 together during their ISS/STS-133 EMER Training

Michael Watkins (third from left), mission manager and project engineer, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, Calif., speaks at a press conference at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Friday, July 22, 2011 in Washington. From left to right, Watkins is joined by Dwayne Brown, NASA Headquarters public affairs officer; Michael Meyer, lead scientist Mars Exploration Program, NASA Headquarters; Watkins; John Grant, geologist, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington; Dawn Sumner, geologist, University of California, Davis and John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist, JPL.

Former NASA astronaut Andy Thomas speaks with members of the media following the signing of a letter of intent between NASA and the Australian Space Agency, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA and the Australian Space Agency will build on over 60 years of collaboration in space exploration between the two countries and commit to expanding cooperation.

PHOTO DATE: 10-21-10LOCATION: Bldg 2NSUBJECT: STS-133 crew press conference

JSC2009-E-135228 (8 June 2009) --- NASA astronaut Rick Sturckow (center), STS-128 commander; and European Space Agency astronaut (ESA) Christer Fuglesang (left foreground), mission specialist, participate in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASAs Johnson Space Center.

PHOTO DATE: 01-22-14LOCATION: Bldg. 2N, Press Conf. Room SUBJECT: Expedition 40 (Soyuz 38) press conference with Steve Swanson

CAPILLARY DRIVEN HEAT TRANSFER EXPERIMENT MSL-1 MICROGRAVITY SCIENCE LABORATORY SHUTTLE FLIGHT STS-83 CREW TRAINING

PHOTO DATE: 01-25-11LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 28 crew member and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa during ISS EVA P/P 33105 training with STS-135 crew members

NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson, STS-135 commander, left, looks out over the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF) after the crew of the final shuttle mission trained in the facility at the Johnson Space Center on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, in Houston. The training marked the crew's final scheduled session in JSC Building. 9, or SVMF. Mission specialist Sandy Magnus is in background at center. ( NASA Photo / Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool )

JSC2008-E-006896 (24 Jan. 2008) --- Astronauts John M. Grunsfeld (left), STS-125 mission specialist; Gregory C. Johnson, pilot; and Michael J. Massimino, mission specialist, participate in a food tasting session in the Flight Projects Division Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center.

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return. NASA OSIRIS-REx Deputy Project Manager Mike Moreau, center, answers questions from reporters during an OSIRIS-REx sample return press conference, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin tries out the control station for the X-48B Blended Wing Body unmanned subscale demonstrator during a tour of NASA Dryden.

NASA Officials gather at Ames Research Center to discuss Spaceship development progress. Constellation is developing the Orion spacecraft and Ares rockets to support an American return to the moon by 2020. Speaker Jeff Hanley, JSC Constellation program manager

Ames Video group during interviewing Dave Lathem, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MR at the SETI Institute during a NASA Ames Kepler Mission conference. Dave Maurantonio, Ed Schilling, Bill Moede, and Eric Land, Ames/Planners Video crew (Kepler a search for habitable planets was selected for Discovery Program)

JSC2009-E-119382 (12 May 2009) --- Flight director Rick LaBrode monitors data at his console in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center during STS-125 flight day two activities. Flight director Chris Edelen is at right.

PHOTO DATE: 03-18-14LOCATION: Bldg. 2s - PAO Studio B SUBJECT: Expedition 41 (Soyuz 39) press conference with Maxim Suraev, Alexander Gerst and Reid Wiseman.

Deputy Director of Rosaviatsiya (Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport) Alexander Vedernikov, left, and Head of the Search-and-Rescue Department of Rosaviatsiya (Russian Federal Air Transport Agency) Aleksey Lukiyanov are seen during a meeting to discuss the readiness for the landing of Expedition 55 crew members Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, Scott Tingle of NASA, Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Saturday, June 2, 2018. Shkaplerov, Tingle, and Kanai are returning after 168 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 54 and 55 crews onboard the International Space Station.

PHOTO DATE: 09-08-14LOCATION: Building 16N/1040 - SES Alpha-Cupola SUBJECT: ESA Astronaut Timothy Peake on behalf of ESA prior to FF RNDZ ADV 3 training with Kopra and Wilmore.

The primary objective of the STS-35 mission was round the clock observation of the celestial sphere in ultraviolet and X-Ray astronomy with the Astro-1 observatory which consisted of four telescopes the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT); the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE); the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT); and the Broad Band X-Ray Telescope (BBXRT). The Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) Spacelab Payload Operations Control Center (SL POCC) at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) was the air/ground communication channel used between the astronauts and ground control teams during the Spacelab missions. Teams of controllers and researchers directed on-orbit science operations, sent commands to the spacecraft, received data from experiments aboard the Space Shuttle, adjusted mission schedules to take advantage of unexpected science opportunities or unexpected results, and worked with crew members to resolve problems with their experiments. D

JSC2001-E-06203 (8 March 2001) --- At his console in Houston's Mission Control Center, astronaut Scott D. Altman, spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), monitors weather data possibly affecting Discovery's pre-launch activities several hundred miles away in Florida on STS-102 launch day.

JSC2008-E-047936 (19 June 2008) --- STS-127 crewmembers participate in a food tasting session in the Flight Projects Division Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Seated from the left are NASA astronaut Christopher J. Cassidy, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette, NASA astronauts David A. Wolf, all mission specialists; Mark L. Polansky, commander; Thomas H. Marshburn, mission specialist; and Douglas G. Hurley, pilot. Dieticians (right foreground) assisted the crewmembers.

S64-10761 (1962) --- Astronauts Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom (left) and John H. Glenn Jr. hold a discussion in the Mercury Control Center during Mercury-Atlas 6 preflight activity. Glenn is the MA-6 pilot. Grissom was the pilot for the Mercury-Redstone 4 spaceflight made on July 21, 1961.

JSC2009-E-107048 (4 May 2009) --- Astronaut Randy Bresnik, STS-129 mission specialist, participates in a food tasting session in the Habitability and Environmental Factors Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) DC-8 deployment to Cape Verde, Sal island, Africa

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of the STS-107 crew take part in In-Flight Maintenance training for their mission. Looking over the OSTEO experiment and paperwork are (at left) Mission Specialists David M. Brown and Laurel Clark and Payload Specialist Ilan Roman of Israel; Pilot William C. Willie” McCool; and Commander Rick D. Husband. Looking on are project engineers and scientists. On the right are Mission Specialists Michael Anderson (back to camera) and Kalpana Chawla. As a research mission, STS-107will carry the SPACEHAB Double Module in its first research flight into space and a broad collection of experiments ranging from material science to life science. It is scheduled to launch July 19, 2001

DATE: 3-22-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 34 crew Chris Hadfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn during emergency scenarios training in the ISS mockups with instructor Kathryn Bolt

Jeremy Graeber, chief NASA test director, participates in validation testing inside Firing Room 1 in the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 11, 2019. The Artemis 1 launch team includes personnel with NASAs Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and Jacobs Test and Operations Contract (TOSC). The simulation was designed to validate the firing room consoles and communications systems, as well as the new Spaceport Command and Control System (SCCS), which will operate, monitor and coordinate ground equipment in preparation for Artemis 1, the uncrewed first flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft.

jsc2018e043410 (May 10, 2018) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 56 prime crew members Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (left), Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (center) and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (right) report to Russian, American and European space officials May 10 at the start of their final Soyuz qualification exams. They will launch June 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger.

PHOTO DATE: 29 September 2010, LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW, FFT Space Shuttle Mockup and ISS Airlock Mockup. SUBJECT: STS-133 crew members Nicole Stott, Mike Barratt, Tim Kopra and Benjamin Drew during STS-133 SMTF ISS EVA P/P 33105 with Instructors Jonnie Lynn R. Yaptengco, Ernie Bell.

PHOTO DATE: 01-17-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 40 6-person crew emergency scenarios. Crewmembers: 38S/Swanson, Skvortsov and Artemiev, along with 39S/Suraev, Wiseman and Gerst.

Expedition 42/43 Crew News Conference with crew members Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti. Photo Date: September 18, 2014. Location: Bldg. 2s - PAO Studio B.

JSC2001-E-21556 (13 July 2001) --- Joseph Dervay, M.D., STS-104 flight surgeon, looks over medical data concerning the STS-104 crew at the Surgeon console in Houston's Mission Control Center (MCC).

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