Astronaut Training Sessions

Images of astronauts engaged in training activities, showcasing teamwork and preparation for space missions in various training environments.

Date:08-19-2014Location:B9NW Node 1Subject:Photograph ESA Astronaut Andreas Mogensen on behalf of ESA during INT TV OPS USER training with instructor Katrina Willoughby. Post on IO/ISS Missions/ISS-045/Preflight. Notify Mike Gentry, Kathy Strawn, Jody Russell, Kylie Clem, Kelly Humphries, Jay Bolden, Jason Roberts, Mark Garcia, Dylan Mathis, Carlos Fontanot, Andreas Mogensen, Katrina Willoughby and Melanie Cowan when ready.Photog: David DeHoyos

PHOTO DATE: 01-20-11LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 28 and Expedition 29 crew members during joint Routine Ops AC training with instructor Mark Fleming

JSC2011-E-005869 (19 Jan. 2011) --- NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson (left), STS-135 commander; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, Expedition 28/29 flight engineer, 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.

PHOTO DATE: 01-20-11LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 28 and Expedition 29 crew members during joint Routine Ops AC training with instructor Mark Fleming

Date: 09-30-14Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupSubject: Expedition 46/47 (Soyuz 45) crew members Tim Kopra, Timothy Peake, Yuri Malenchenko with instructor Wyatt Smith during Routine Ops training in the Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facility's ISS mockups

PHOTO DATE: 12-04-10LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Photograph STS-134 crew during Ingress/Egress training with instructor Glenn JohnsonWORK ORDER: 03507-BS__STS134_12-04-10

Date: 11-28-12Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSubject: Expedition 36 crew (Cassidy, Vinogradov, Misurkin) during Routine Ops AC 2 training in ISS mockups

Date:08-19-2014Location:B9NW Node 1Subject:Photograph ESA Astronaut Andreas Mogensen on behalf of ESA during INT TV OPS USER training with instructor Katrina Willoughby. Post on IO/ISS Missions/ISS-045/Preflight. Notify Mike Gentry, Kathy Strawn, Jody Russell, Kylie Clem, Kelly Humphries, Jay Bolden, Jason Roberts, Mark Garcia, Dylan Mathis, Carlos Fontanot, Andreas Mogensen, Katrina Willoughby and Melanie Cowan when ready.Photog: David DeHoyos

PHOTO DATE: 01-20-11LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 28 and Expedition 29 crew members during joint Routine Ops AC training with instructor Mark Fleming

PHOTO DATE: 29 April 2013LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW, Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facility - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 39/40 (Soyuz 38) crew members, Steve Swanson, Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemiev during Routine Ops sim in the ISS mockups at the Johnson Space Center.

JSC2012-E-237297 (5 Nov. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio (left), Expedition 38/39 flight engineer; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata (center), Expedition 38 flight engineer and Expedition 39 commander; along with crew instructors Alexandros Kanelakos (second left) and Jason Campbell are pictured during a training session in the virtual reality lab in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

PHOTO DATE: 03-24-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NWSUBJECT: STS-133 crew during EVA TPS Overview training with instructor Alexandros Kanelakos

JSC2011-E-005872 (19 Jan. 2011) --- NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson, STS-135 commander, participates in an 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.

jsc2020e026648 (June 18, 2020) --- NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and support personnel review the Universal Waste Management System, the advanced space toilet due to be delivered to the International Space Station in October aboard Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter.

PHOTO DATE: 01-26-11LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 29 JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa during Emergency Scenario TrainingWORK ORDER: 00374-BS__SATOSHIEMERTRAINING_01-26-11

Kennedy Space Center employee Jonathan Gleeson (right) and Kennedy intern Patrick Follis assemble the flight hardware of NASAs Orbital Syngas Commodity Augmentation Reactor, or OSCAR. OSCAR is an Early Career Initiative project at the Florida spaceport that studies technology to convert trash and human waste into useful gasses such as methane, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. By processing small pieces of trash in a high-temperature reactor, OSCAR is advancing new and innovative technology for managing waste in space. OSCAR would reduce the amount of space needed for waste storage within a spacecraft, turn some waste into gasses that have energy storage and life support applications, and ensure waste is no longer biologically active. A prototype has been developed, and a team of Kennedy employees are in the process of constructing a new rig for suborbital flight testing.

NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman visits the Orion medium fidelity mockup with Orion program manager, Mark Geyer, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on June 8, 2015. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

PHOTO DATE: 5-3-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Soyuz 36 crew (Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazanskiy and Michael Hopkins) in their Routine Ops training.

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.

JSC2009-E-284898 (15 Dec. 2009) --- NASA astronauts Gregory H. Johnson (center), STS-134 pilot; and Michael Fincke (right), mission specialist; along with European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, mission specialist, 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 NASAs Johnson Space Center.

PHOTO DATE: 04-02-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NWSUBJECT: Photograph STS-132 crew during TPS Repair Skills training

PHOTO DATE: 05-16-11LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS US LABSUBJECT: Expedition 29/30 ISS Routine Ops training in ISS mockupsWORK ORDER: 2011-1228

NASA began evaluating five habitat prototypes developed through NASAs Next Space Exploration for Technologies Partnerships, or NextSTEP, to help engineers refine requirements for the design of an American-made deep space habitat for the Gateway. Lockheed Martin turned over its prototype to NASA, and testing began with crew on March 25, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Pictured inside the habitat prototype on March 26, 2019, from left are astronauts Stephanie Wilson, Shannon Walker and Raja Chari. Astronauts are participating in the evaluations to provide their perspectives as those who may one day live aboard the lunar outpost, which would be located about 250,000 miles from Earth. Ground prototypes developed by Bigelow Aerospace, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Sierra Nevada Corporation will be tested in the future at various facilities across the country. A sixth company, NanoRacks, plans to develop a prototype as well.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-135 crew members inspect the cargo that will be loaded into shuttle Atlantis' payload bay. From left are Mission Specialists Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus; and Commander Chris Ferguson. The four-member crew is at Kennedy participating in the Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT), which gives them an opportunity for hands-on training with tools they'll use in space and familiarization of the payload they'll deliver to the International Space Station.Shuttle Atlantis is being prepared for the STS-135 mission, which will deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts to the station. Atlantis is targeted to launch June 28, and will be the last shuttle flight for the Space Shuttle Program.

PHOTO DATE: 04-02-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS AirlockSUBJECT: STS-132 crew during ISS EVA TOOL CONFIGURATION with instructor Lisa Shore.

Date: 01-22-14Location: Bldg 5, SSATASubject: EPS Major Case with Expedition 41 crew (39S/Suraev, Wiseman and Gerst, along with 40S/Wilmore).

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.

JSC2011-E-029049 (21 March 2011) --- NASA astronaut Rex Walheim (foreground), STS-135 mission specialist, participates in an extravehicular activity (EVA) hardware training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. EVA instructor Art Thomason assisted Walheim. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program.

DATE: 9-24-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups.SUBJECT: Expedition 48 crew members (Soyuz 46) Aleksey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeff Williams during Routine Ops training in Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facilities (SVMTF) ISS mockups with instructor John Ray.

Expedition 28 JAXA Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Astronaut Mike Fossum during FF RNDZ ADV 4 training. Training includes HTV rendezvous operation. Photo Date: September 15, 2010. Location: Building 30 - SIM City.

PHOTO DATE: 03-19-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 34/35 crew training

Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and P.I. at NASA Ames Research Center - Total Luminance Photometer lens and electronics units on shake table in N-2444 EEL Laboratory with (l) Gi Kojima (bk - middle) Damon Flansburg (r) Dana Lynch

Expedition 42 crew member Butch Wilmore during ISS EVA POGO-2 training class. Photo Date: April 25, 2014. Location: Bldg. 9NW - POGO.

PHOTO DATE: 09-30-09LOCATION: NBL, TopsideSUBJECT: STS-132 Preflight Training - DiveWith Garret Reisman, Mike Goode and Stephen Bowen

PHOTO DATE: 07-18-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: EVA Team training with Expedition 42 commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore.

NASA began evaluating five habitat prototypes developed through NASAs Next Space Exploration for Technologies Partnerships, or NextSTEP, to help engineers refine requirements for the design of an American-made deep space habitat for the Gateway. Lockheed Martin turned over its prototype to NASA, and testing began with crew on March 25, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Pictured inside the habitat prototype on March 26, 2019, at left is astronaut Stephanie Wilson. To her left, partially hidden is astronaut Shannon Walker. Astronauts are participating in the evaluations to provide their perspectives as those who may one day live aboard the lunar outpost, which would be located about 250,000 miles from Earth. Ground prototypes developed by Bigelow Aerospace, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Sierra Nevada Corporation will be tested in the future at various facilities across the country. A sixth company, NanoRacks, plans to develop a prototype as well.

Expedition 36 crew during Emergency Scenarios training. Soyuz 34 crew (Cassidy, Vinogradov, Misurkin) and Soyuz 35 crew (Yurchikhin, Parmitano, Nyberg). Photo Date: January 15, 2013. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

STS-135 Payload & Orbiter CEIT

Expedition 43 Emergency Scenarios training in ISS mockups with Soyuz 41(Anton Shkaplerov, Samantha Cristoforetti, Terry Virts) and Soyuz 42 (Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, Scott Kelly). Photo Date: July 10, 2014. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

PHOTO DATE: 07-13-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, US Lab MockupSUBJECT: Expedition 28 crew membersMike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa, Sergei Volkov during ACLS MEG I training.

(NESC) NASA Engineering and Safety Center Orion Heat Shield Carrier Structure: Titanium Orthogrid heat shield sub-component dynamic test article : person in the photo Jim Jeans (Background: Mike Kirsch, James Ainsworth)

PHOTO DATE: 02-08-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: STS-131 crew during SSMTF TRANS HANDS-ON PRACTICE 31105 training with instructor Jeremy Owen.

DATE: 6-25-14LOCATION: Bldg 9NW - POGOSUBJECT: Expedition 42/43 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti during ISS EVA POGO 2 training with instructor Sandy Fletcher.

Soyuz 41 crew members Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov (RSA) and Samantha Cristoforetti (ESA) during Routine Ops training with instructor Josh Matthew. Photo Date: October 24, 2013. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, preparations are under way to secure the multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator (MMRTG) for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission in the MMRTG trailer. The MMRTG is enclosed in a mesh container, known as the "gorilla cage," which protects it during transport and allows any excess heat generated to dissipate into the air. The MMRTG is being moved to the RTG storage facility following a fit check on MSL's Curiosity rover in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF).The MMRTG will generate the power needed for the mission from the natural decay of plutonium-238, a non-weapons-grade form of the radioisotope. Heat given off by this natural decay will provide constant power through the day and night during all seasons. MSL's components include a compact car-sized rover, Curiosity, which has 10 science instruments designed to search for signs of life, including methane, and help determine if the g

Technicians with Orbital ATK continue to install micro satellites on the deployment module for NASAs Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) in Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. CYGNSS is being prepared at Vandenberg, and then will be transported to NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket which will be attached to the Orbital ATK L-1011 carrier aircraft. CYGNSS will launch on the Pegasus XL rocket from the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. CYGNSS will make frequent and accurate measurements of ocean surface winds throughout the life cycle of tropical storms and hurricanes. The data that CYGNSS provides will enable scientists to probe key air-sea interaction processes that take place near the core of storms, which are rapidly changing and play a critical role in the beginning and intensification of hurricanes.

Carlos Rodriguez, from left, manager of systems development, verification and testing for Aerojet Rocketdyne, talks with NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore, Eric Boe and Suni Williams as the group surveys an RL10 engine as it stands in a vacuum chamber at Aerojet Rocketdyne's test stand in West Palm Beach, Florida. The engine will be one of two used for the Centaur upper stage during a United Launch Alliance Atlas V mission to launch Boeing's CST-100 Starliner on a flight test carrying a crew. The engine was test-fired as part of acceptance testing to confirm the engine is ready for flight.

JOEL HARDY, VINCENT VIDAURRI, & NANCY HALLMARK MISSION OPERATIONS LABORATORY - LABORATORY TRAINING COMPLEX (LTC), BUILDING 4663, EXPRESS RACK TRAINING.-

Date: 07-03-14Location: Bldg 9, ISS MockupsSubject: Soyuz 42S (Expedition 44/45/46) crew members during Emergency Scenarios training in ISS mockups with astronaut Scott Kelly, cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Genady Padalka.

JSC2012-E-215422 (12 Sept. 2012) --- European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, both Expedition 36/37 flight engineers, participate in a routine operations training session in an International Space Station mock-up/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

PHOTO DATE: 01-11-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - SARJ SUBJECT: Expedition 36 crew members Chris Cassidy and ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano during SARJ Ops training.

PHOTO DATE: 04-02-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NWSUBJECT: Photograph STS-132 crew during TPS Repair Skills training

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - During a ceremony inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Jules Schneider, Lockheed Martin Orion Production Operations manager, holds the key to symbolically turn over the Orion spacecraft for Exploration Flight Test-1 to Ground Operations. Waiting to accept the key is Blake Hale, Lockheed Martin Ground Operations manager. Orion is the exploration spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to destinations not yet explored by humans, including an asteroid and Mars. It will have emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities. The first unpiloted test flight of the Orion is scheduled to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in December to an altitude of 3,600 miles above the Earth's surface. The two-orbit, four-hour flight test will help engineers eval

DATE: 9-24-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups.SUBJECT: Expedition 48 crew members (Soyuz 46) Aleksey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeff Williams during Routine Ops training in Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facilities (SVMTF) ISS mockups with instructor John Ray.

Date: 07-03-14Location: Bldg 9, ISS MockupsSubject: Soyuz 42S (Expedition 44/45/46) crew members during Emergency Scenarios training in ISS mockups with astronaut Scott Kelly, cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Genady Padalka.

PHOTO DATE: 03-19-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 34/35 crew training

PHOTO DATE: 06-08-09LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, SSMTF, MPLMSUBJECT: STS-128 crew during their SSMTF TRANS HANDS-ON review in building 9NW.

Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator, ASRG

Date: 09-30-14Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupSubject: Expedition 46/47 (Soyuz 45) crew members Tim Kopra, Timothy Peake, Yuri Malenchenko with instructor Wyatt Smith during Routine Ops training in the Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facility's ISS mockups

DATE: 5-14-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NE - POGOSUBJECT: Soyuz 39 (Expedition 40/41) crew members Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst during ISS EVA PGT/POGO (EVA ARGOS) training.

PHOTO DATE: 5-3-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Soyuz 36 crew (Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazanskiy and Michael Hopkins) in their Routine Ops training.

JSC2012-E-106568 (20 July 2012) --- NASA astronaut Kevin Ford (right), Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander; along with Russian cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin (left) and Oleg Novitskiy, both Expedition 33/34 flight engineers, participate in a routine operations training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, right, speaks to SpaceX Vice President of Propulsion Engineering, Will Heltsley, about engine hardware during a tour of the SpaceX Headquarters, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Hawthorne, CA.

DATE: 9-3-14LOCATION: NBL - MU-176SUBJECT: ESA Astronaut Tim Peaks and US Astronaut Tim Kopra during ISS EVA MAINT 3 1G training with instructor Sandy Moore.

JIM LYDON (LEFT-GREEN SHIRT) BRUSHES METALLIC POWDER OFF OF A RECENTLY PRINTED ROCKET PART EXAMINED BY ZACH JONES, RIGHT, IN MSFC'S ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING LAB

Date: 02-11-15Loction: Bldg 9NWSubject: Expedition 50 crew members Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet during ISS EVA Fluid QD Ops 1 with instructors Allissa Battocletti(purple) and Staphanie Johnston.

DATE: 9-24-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups.SUBJECT: Expedition 48 crew members (Soyuz 46) Aleksey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeff Williams during Routine Ops training in Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facilities (SVMTF) ISS mockups with instructor John Ray.

Date: 10-30-13Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupSubject: Expedition 41/42 crew member and RSA cosmonaut Elena Serova during rack and hatch skills training in ISS mockups.

Date:04-08-2014Location:B9NW ISS TrainersSubject:Photograph ISS One Year Crew training with Scott Kelly, Gennady Padalka and Mikahil Kornienko during Emergency Scenario Training 1. Photograph crew interaction with trainers, during briefings, in mockup facility, each other, individual photos of crew members in mockup, etc. Post on IO/ISS Missions/Soyuz 42 Long Duration/Preflight.Photog: David DeHoyos

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

JSC2010-E-009597 (13 Jan. 2010) --- STS-134 crew members participate in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASAs Johnson Space Center. Pictured from the left are NASA astronauts Mark Kelly, commander; Andrew Feustel, Michael Fincke, both mission specialists; and Gregory H. Johnson, pilot. Crew trainer Adam Flagan assisted the crew members.

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.

JSC2010-E-183213 (3 Nov. 2010) --- NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson (left), STS-135 commander; and Rex Walheim, mission specialist, participate in a tools and repair kits 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.

Soyuz 40 (Expedition 41/42) Russian cosmonaut Yelena Serova during USOS Structure & Configuration with instuctor Josh Matthew. Photo Date: August 27, 2013. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

PHOTO DATE: 09-28-09LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: STS-129 crew during trans hands-on review in the space station mockups.

ATLANTIS REMEMBERED COLLAGE IN FIRING ROOM 4

PHOTO DATE: 30 September 2010, LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW, CCT-II, PCBM and VOT Mockup, SUBJECT: STS-133 crew during SSMTF IN/EG TIMELINE 91105 training with instructors Bob Behrendsen and Glenn Johnson.

PHOTO DATE: 10-30-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - POGO Stand SUBJECT: Expedition 43 commander and crew member Terry Virts during his ISS EVA POGO 1 training on the POGO stand with instructors Faruq Sabur and Alexandros Kanelakos.

NASA commercial crew astronaut Mike Hopkins trains with Extravehicular Activity (EVA) tools and hardware in Johnson Space Centers Space Vehicle Mockup Facility in Houston. Hopkins is assigned to the second crewed flight of SpaceXs Crew Dragon.

JSC2010-E-006700 (5 Jan. 2010) --- NASA astronauts James P. Dutton Jr., STS-131 pilot; Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger (center) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, both mission specialists, participate in an undocking timeline training session in the Guidance and Navigation Simulator in the Mission Simulation Development Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Expedition 36 crew during Emergency Scenarios training. Soyuz 34 crew (Cassidy, Vinogradov, Misurkin) and Soyuz 35 crew (Yurchikhin, Parmitano, Nyberg). Photo Date: January 15, 2013. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

S116-E-05528 (11 Dec. 2006) --- Astronaut Joan E. Higginbotham, STS-116 mission specialist, uses a handheld laser ranging device on the aft flight deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery to track the range of the International Space Station during rendezvous operations.

JSC2011-E-017411 (16 Feb. 2011) --- NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus, STS-135 mission specialist, participates in an extravehicular activity (EVA) training session in the Partial Gravity Simulator (POGO) test area in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. NASA astronaut Rex Walheim (left background), mission specialist, looks on.

JSC2011-E-029027 (21 March 2011) --- NASA astronauts Rex Walheim (center) and Sandy Magnus, both STS-135 mission specialists, participate in an extravehicular activity (EVA) hardware training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. EVA instructor Art Thomason assisted Walheim and Magnus. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program.

NASA astronauts who will be the first humans to fly aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft recently toured the company's Rocket Development Test Facility in McGregor, Texas, on Oct. 16, 2018. Astronauts Bob Behnken, at right, and Doug Hurley are set to crew SpaceX's Demo-2 flight test in June 2019, which will be the first flight of Crew Dragon with people onboard. Astronauts Victor Glover, behind Behnken, and Mike Hopkins, at left, will crew SpaceX's first regular mission to the International Space Station, following Demo-2 and NASA's certification of SpaceX commercial crew systems.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the MILA Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network Station during a visit to Kennedy, mission STS-114 Mission Specialist Andrew Thomas watches Sonja Ashworth, with Honeywell, as she builds communication cables. The tracking station serves as the primary voice, data and telemetry communications link between the Shuttle and the ground from launch until 7-1_2 minutes into the flight. Millions of clues about the performance of the Space Shuttles main engines and other components are communicated to launch managers, technicians and engineers on the ground, who must keep their fingers on the pulse of the Space Shuttle during the critical ascent period. In a typical year, MILA provides through KSC more than 10,000 hours of data between spacecraft and data users. MILA is also used during a Space Shuttle landing at KSC and provides communications beginning about 13 minutes before touchdown. Also, MILA can be called upon to provide data transfer support for NASAs

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - STS-134 Mission Specialist Michael Fincke, foreground, and Pilot Gregory H. Johnson are joined by Walter "Buddy" McKenzie as the astronauts get a close look at space shuttle Endeavour inside NASA Kennedy Space Center's Orbiter Processing Facility-1. The spacecraft is being prepared for public display.Commander Mark Kelly, Johnson and Mission Specialists Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori lifted off May 16, 2011 aboard space shuttle Endeavour. During the nearly 16-day STS-134 mission, Endeavour delivered to the International Space Station the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and spare parts, including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for Dextre. This was the 36th shuttle mission to the station and Endeavour's 25th and final flight.

NEWMAN TAKES A CLOSER LOOK AT EQUIPMENT UNDER DEVELOPMENT IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL & LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS SECTION IN BUILDING 4755. ELCSS IS BUILDING DEVICES TO RECYCLE AIR AND WATER FOR CREW MEMBERS ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, USING THE ORBITING LABORATORY AS A TEST BED FOR LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS ON LONG-DURATION MISSIONS DEEPER INTO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United Space Alliance technicians install the ferry flight doors on space shuttle Endeavour. The work is part of Transition and Retirement of the remaining space shuttles, Endeavour and Atlantis. Endeavour is being prepared for public display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Its ferry flight to California is targeted for mid-September. Endeavour was the last space shuttle added to NASAs orbiter fleet. Over the course of its 19-year career, Endeavour spent 299 days in space during 25 missions.

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.

Astronaut Anna Fisher observes Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) crew module and service module mating operations in Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building at Kennedy Space Center on June 9, 2014. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

NASA Commercial Crew astronaut Eric Boe listens as Jim Moss, site director for Aerojet Rocketdyne's West Palm Beach facility, discusses aspects of the RL10 engine as it stands in a vacuum chamber at Aerojet Rocketdyne's test stand in West Palm Beach, Florida. The engine will be one of two used for the Centaur upper stage during a United Launch Alliance Atlas V mission to launch Boeing's CST-100 Starliner on a flight test carrying a crew. The engine was test-fired as part of acceptance testing to confirm the engine is ready for flight.

PHOTO DATE: 04-02-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NWSUBJECT: Photograph STS-132 crew during TPS Repair Skills training

Date: 01-13-12Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSubject: Expedition 31/32/33 Routine Ops training in building 9NW.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the Prototype Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Prital Thakrar, left, design lead and student engineer trainee from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Anthony Bharrat, NASA avionics lead, and Evan Williams, an Education intern from the University of Central Florida, prepare the experiment container for NASA's Exposing Microorganisms in the Stratosphere, or E-MIST, experiment. The container was designed and built at Kennedy. The 80-pound structure features four doors that rotate to expose up to 10 microbial samples each for a predetermined period of time in the Earth's stratosphere.The E-MIST experiment will launch on the exterior of a giant scientific balloon gondola at about 8 a.m. MST on Aug. 24 from Ft. Sumner, New Mexico. It will soar 125,000 feet above the Earth during a 5-hour journey over the desert to understand how spore-forming bacteria, commonly found in spacecraft assembly facilities can survive.

S98-08744 (28 April 1998) --- Four members of the STS-95 crew are briefed on video cameras by crew trainer Donald Carico during a training session in the systems integration facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). From the left are U.S. Sen. John H. Glenn Jr. (D.-Ohio), payload specialist; astronaut Scott E. Parazynski, mission specialist; Chiaki Mukai, payload specialist representing Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA); Carico and astronaut Pedro Duque, mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA). The photo was taken by Joe McNally, National Geographic, for NASA.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At SPACEHAB in Cape Canaveral, Fla., STS-107 Payload Commander Michael Anderson gets experience on equipment for the mission. STS-107 is a research mission, and the primary payload is the first flight of the SHI Research Double Module (SHI/RDM). The experiments range from material sciences to life sciences (many rats). Among the experiments is a Hitchhiker carrier system, modular and expandable in accordance with payload requirements. STS-107 is scheduled to launch in June 2002

PHOTO DATE: 03-19-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 34/35 crew training

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At SPACEHAB in Cape Canaveral, Fla., STS-107 Payload Commander Michael Anderson gets experience on equipment for the mission. STS-107 is a research mission, and the primary payload is the first flight of the SHI Research Double Module (SHI_RDM). The experiments range from material sciences to life sciences (many rats). Among the experiments is a Hitchhiker carrier system, modular and expandable in accordance with payload requirements. STS-107 is scheduled to launch in June 2002

NASA Monsoon Multidisciplinary analysis (NAMMA) deployment, Sal Island, Cape Verde Africia

PHOTO DATE: 23 September 2010, LOCATION: Bldg. 9 Virtual Reality Lab, SUBJECT: Expedition 28 crew members Mike Fossum and Satoshi Furukawa during ROBO/EVA #1 Training.

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