Astronaut Training Sessions

Images showcase astronauts engaged in training exercises, including discussions and technical setups in a mockup environment, focusing on mission preparation and teamwork.

PHOTO DATE: 05-15-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 42 crew members Butch Wilmore, Alexander Samokutyaev and Yelena Serova during Routine Ops training

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

DATE: 1-7-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - POGO StandSUBJECT: Astronaut Scott Kelly during ISS EVA POGO 1 training.

Date: 12-06-13Location: Bldg 5, SSTFSubject: Expedition 40 crew members Steve Swanson, Greg Wiseman and Alexander Gerst during EPS MAJOR CASE B training in SSTF with instructor Jessica Newman

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

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

PHOTO DATE: 05-15-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 42 crew members Butch Wilmore, Alexander Samokutyaev and Yelena Serova during Routine Ops training

JSC2010-E-009602 (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 second left are NASA astronaut Gregory H. Johnson, pilot; European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, NASA astronauts Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and Michael Fincke, all mission specialists.

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

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

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

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

PHOTO DATE: -02-10-10LOCATION: BLG 9NW , ISS AirlockSUBJECT: STS-133 SSMTF ISS JNT AL HDW 31105 training. Four crew members (Drew, Kopra, Barrett, Stott).

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.

PHOTO DATE: 04-23-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupSUBJECT: Expedition 25 crew members, Kaleri, Skripochka and S. Kelly during routine ops 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.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, cold storage team members pack an International Space Station experiment cryogenic freezer called a Glacier unit, for transport to Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The unit is for an experiment late-load demonstration test with the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule.SpaceX is one of two companies under contract with NASA to take cargo to the International Space Station. NASA is working with SpaceX to combine its last two demonstration flights, and if approved, the Falcon 9 would launch the Dragon capsule to the orbiting laboratory for a docking within the next several months.

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

PHOTO DATE: 04-23-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupSUBJECT: Expedition 25 crew members, Kaleri, Skripochka and S. Kelly during routine ops training.

From left, Michelle Clontz and Sharon Prisco, with Lockheed Martin security operations, and Newt Allen, ASRC operations, assist with the installation of the spacecraft adapter (SA) cone to the Artemis I Orion spacecraft inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 10, 2020. This is one of the final major hardware operations the spacecraft will undergo during closeout processing prior to being integrated with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket in preparation for the first Artemis mission. The spacecraft adapter cone connects the bottom portion of Orions service module to the top part of the rocket known as the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS). Orion will fly on the agencys Artemis I mission - the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to the Moon that will ultimately lead to the exploration of Mars.

JSC2010-E-193887 (1 Dec. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, STS-134 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 NASAs Johnson Space Center. NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel (left) and Greg Chamitoff (second left), both mission specialists, look on.

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

ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet during CMS ARED OPS training with instructor Kimberlee Jadwick . Photo Date: September 16, 2014. Location: Building 26.

JSC2012-E-034225 (8 March 2012) --- NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 32 flight engineer and Expedition 33 commander; NASA astronaut Joe Acaba, Expedition 31/32 flight engineer; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (center), 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.

CINDY AZZARITA AND CHARLIE SCOTT, 3D PRINT OPERATIONS LEAD, WRITE THE CREW PROCEDURES FOR ON ORBIT INSTALL AND STOW OF 3D PRINTER

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

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

PHOTO DATE: 06-27-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 42/43 (Soyuz 41) crew members Terry Virts, Samantha Cristoforetti and Anton Shakaplerov during Mega Code 2 training with instructor Melinda Hailey.

JSC2012-E-106518 (20 July 2012) --- NASA astronaut Kevin Ford (left), Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander; along with Russian cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin (center) and Oleg Novitskiy, both Expedition 33/34 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.

Expedition 37 crew members Karen Nyberg, Yuri Yurchikhin and Luca Parmitano during Routine Ops AC 2 training in the ISS Mockups. Photo Date: January 9, 2013. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

Inside Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians and engineers install one of eight NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) spacecraft on its deployment module. Processing activities will prepare the spacecraft for launch aboard an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket. When preparations are competed at Vandenberg, the rocket will be transported to NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida attached to the Orbital ATK L-1011 carrier aircraft with in its payload fairing. 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.

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

JSC2011-E-058821 (22 June 2011) --- NASA astronaut Don Pettit (seated) and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, both Expedition 30/31 flight engineers, participate in an electrical power system training session in the Space Station Training Facility in the Jake Garn Simulation and Training Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

KOSTA VARNAVAS/ES33, AND Dr. HERB SIMS/ES63, TESTING THE PULSAR , (PROGRAMMABLE ULTRA LOWPOWER SYSTEM ADAPTABLE RADIO), IN THE SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO LAB, NSSTC

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

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Retired Navy Admiral Harold W. Gehman Jr. (second from left), chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, visits the Thermal Protection System shop and is briefed by Martin Wilson (second from right), the shop manager. Gehman and other members of the board are visiting sites at KSC to become familiar with the Shuttle launch process. The independent board is charged with determining what caused the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the loss of its seven-member crew on Feb. 1 during reentry.

U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, (L), and U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, view progress on NASA's Space Launch System July 21, during a tour of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

JSC2012-E-106547 (20 July 2012) --- NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander, participates 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.

NASAs Armstrong Flight Research Center and Langley Research Center staff members monitor a test of the Passive Aeroelastic Tailored (PAT) wing at NASAs Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.

NASA Deputy Administrator Dr. Dava Newman tours Goddard Space Flight Center with Center Director Chris Scolese. Visit Microspec lab Emily Barrentine; Omid Noroozian; Thomas Stevenson; Ed Wollack

Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) with NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann and Boeing Astronaut Chris Ferguson during ISS EVA Prep & Post 1 training.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - Roland Coelho, third from left, CalPoly program lead, and members of the student launch team load a payload into a Poly Picosatellite Orbital Dispensor, or P-Pod nanolauncher/carrier in the CubeSat lab facility at California Polytechnic Institute, or CalPoly. The payload, which includes sensors and equipment carefully packaged into 4-inch cube sections, will ride in the body of a Garvey Spacecraft Corporation's Prospector P-18D rocket during a June 15 launch on a high-altitude, suborbital flight. Known as a CubeSat, the satellite will record shock, vibrations and heat inside the rocket. It will not be released during the test flight, but the results will be used to prove or strengthen their designs before they are carried into orbit in 2014 on a much larger rocket. Also, a new launcher/carrier of a lightweight design also is being tested for use on future missions to deploy the small spacecraft. The flight also is being watched closely as a model for trying ou

Date: 03-13-12Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS AirlockSubject: Expedition 32 (Soyuz 31) crew members Aki Hoshide, Sunita Williams and Joe Acaba during ISS EVA planning and preparation

Expedition 40 crew member Steve Swanson with instructor Michaela Benda during crew training. Photo Date: January 8, 2014. Location: Building 5, SSTF.

Date: 11-115-12Location: NBL - Pool TopsideSubject: Expedition 42 crew member and Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti being lowered into the water during her INC-42/CB EVA 91027 suited training

Date: 01-12-13Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSubject: Expedition 32/33/34 Emergency Scenarios training in building 9NW

AJ Nick, a robotic engineer with the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Lab, monitors the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR) from a control room during testing in the regolith bin inside Swamp Works at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 5, 2019. Tests use a gravity assist offload system to simulate reduced gravity conditions found on the Moon. On the surface of the Moon, mining robots like RASSOR will excavate the regolith and take the material to a processing plant where usable elements such as hydrogen, oxygen and water can be extracted for life support systems. RASSOR can scoop up icy regolith which can be used to make operations on the Moon sustainable.

Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden visits the NFAC 80x120ft wind tunnel control room during a Parachute deployment test. Joe Sacco explains test procedure to Worden (on left).

Date: 08-23-13Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS Airlock MockupSubject: Expedition 38 crew members Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata during INC-38 ISS EVA Prep & Post #2 training in the ISS Airlock mockup with instructors Megan Murphey, Michael Dino and Tamara York. In addition, non-assigned astronaut Jeanette Epps is participating

JSC2012-E-108016 (2 Aug. 2012) --- Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov (left), Expedition 35 flight engineer and Expedition 36 commander, and Roman Romanenko, Expedition 34/35 flight engineer, participate in an emergency scenario training session in an International Space Station mock-up/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

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.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Stephanie Stilson (right), NASA Vehicle Manager, briefs the media attending an informative workshop and tour of the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) housing the Space Shuttle Discovery at KSC. During this event, the media received the latest information on Discoverys processing and viewed workers preparing the vehicle for its safe return to flight scheduled for a launch planning window of March 2005. Kicking off the activities at the Press Site Auditorium, technical experts led two workshops addressing Reinforced Carbon-Carbon and vehicle instrumentation. During the tour of the OPF, reporters saw work in progress on Discovery, including reinstallation of the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon panels on the Shuttle's wing leading edge, wiring inspections and instrumentation updates being completed for Return to Flight.

These photos show highlights from Artemis II NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch of NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen visit to NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Nov. 27. The crew met and spoke to employees and viewed facilities for SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. All four astronauts signed the Orion stage adapter (OSA), a small ring structure that connects SLS to NASAs Orion spacecraft, that will be used for Artemis II. Koch and Wiseman also visited the Systems Integration Lab, where SLS flight software testing is conducted. The four astronauts will launch atop SLS inside Orion to venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed flight for Artemis.

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.

STS-132 crew members Garrett Reisman and Stephen Bowen during preparations for STS-132 ULF4 EVA 1 training. Photo Date: February 8, 2010. Location: NBL - Pool Topside.

STS-130 crew and Expedition 22 crew member T.J. Creamer during module outfitting training. Photo Date: October 7, 2009. Location: Building 9NW - SSMTF.

JSC2010-E-043658 (25 March 2010) --- NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff, STS-134 mission specialist, prepares to use virtual reality hardware in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center to rehearse some of his duties on the upcoming mission to the International Space Station. This type of virtual reality training allows the astronauts to wear a helmet and special gloves while looking at computer displays simulating actual movements around the various locations on the station hardware with which they will be working. Crew instructor Bradley Bell assisted Chamitoff.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Robert Lightfoot, NASA associate director, views some of the technologies in development at the center during a tour of the Swamp Works laboratories. Kennedys Swamp Works provides rapid, innovative and cost-effective exploration mission solutions, leveraging partnerships across NASA, industry and academia. Kennedys research and technology mission is to improve spaceports on Earth, as well as lay the groundwork for establishing spaceports at destinations in space.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Robert Lightfoot, NASA associate director, learns about the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot, or RASSOR, Excavator during a tour of the Swamp Works laboratories. Kennedys Swamp Works provides rapid, innovative and cost-effective exploration mission solutions, leveraging partnerships across NASA, industry and academia. Kennedys research and technology mission is to improve spaceports on Earth, as well as lay the groundwork for establishing spaceports at destinations in space.

KOSTA VARNAVAS/ES33, AND Dr. HERB SIMS/ES63, TESTING THE PULSAR , (PROGRAMMABLE ULTRA LOWPOWER SYSTEM ADAPTABLE RADIO), IN THE SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO LAB, NSSTC

PHOTO DATE: 04-20-09LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS Mockup, AirlockSUBJECT: Preflight Coverage, STS 128 & Expedition 20 crews training in ISS Airlock mockup, Bldg 9NW

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

JSC2009-E-145574 (17 July 2009) --- NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams (right), Expedition 21 flight engineer and Expedition 22 commander; and cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, Expedition 21/22 flight engineer, participate in a training session in an International Space Station mock-up/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASAs 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: 01-12-13Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSubject: Expedition 32/33/34 Emergency Scenarios training in building 9NW

From left, team members Malay Shah, Gino Carro and Evan Bell assemble the flight hardware for NASAs Orbital Syngas Commodity Augmentation Reactor, or OSCAR, on Oct. 10, 2019, in the Space Station Processing Facility at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida. OSCAR is an Early Career Initiative project at the 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. A prototype has been developed, and the team is in the process of constructing a new rig for a suborbital flight test.

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.

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.

#Tweeunion social media participants talk with Orion engineer Stu McClung about Orion's first flight in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility in Building 9 of Johnson Space Center in Houston on Jan. 30, 2015. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

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, 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.

Michael Dean, senior project engineer for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program at Ball Aerospace, right, speaks with acting NASA Deputy Administrator Lesa Roe, second from left, and acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, center, about the 20ft. by 24 ft. vertical thermal vacuum chamber, Thursday, April 6, 2017 during a visit to Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo.

These photos show highlights from Artemis II NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch of NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen visit to NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Nov. 27. The crew met and spoke to employees and viewed facilities for SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. All four astronauts signed the Orion stage adapter (OSA), a small ring structure that connects SLS to NASAs Orion spacecraft, that will be used for Artemis II. Koch and Wiseman also visited the Systems Integration Lab, where SLS flight software testing is conducted. The four astronauts will launch atop SLS inside Orion to venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed flight for Artemis.

JSC2009-E-284897 (15 Dec. 2009) --- STS-134 crew members 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. Pictured from the right are NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel, Greg Chamitoff, Michael Fincke, all mission specialists; along with NASA astronaut Gregory H. Johnson, pilot; and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, mission specialist. John Ray (left) assisted the crew members.

NIKKI WERKHEISER AND QUINCY BEAN, MEMBERS OF THE 3-D PRINTER TEAM EXAMINE PARTS PRODUCED ON A PROTOTYPE OF THE FIRST 3-D PRINTER TO BE SENT TO THE ISS

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.

JSC2011-E-017405 (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.

Date: 03-13-12Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS AirlockSubject: Expedition 32 (Soyuz 31) crew members Aki Hoshide, Sunita Williams and Joe Acaba during ISS EVA planning and preparation

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Thermal Protection System Facility NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, agency astronaut candidates are briefed on tiles being manufactured for the agency's Orion spacecraft. Nicole Mann holds a tile sample as Christina Hammock, left, and Tyler "Nick" Hague look on. Plans call for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Exploration Flight Test EFT-1 later this year. The astronaut class of 2013 was selected by NASA after an extensive year-and-a-half search. The new group will help the agency push the boundaries of exploration and travel to new destinations in the solar system.

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.

Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, front left, talks with Scott Wilson, manager of production operations for the Orion Program, inside Kennedys Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout building on Dec. 10, 2018. Cabana, who commanded the first International Space Station assembly mission, was accompanied by fellow STS-88 crew members Jim Newman, Nancie Currie-Gregg and Jerry Ross. Earlier in the day, the group held a panel discussion in recognition of the 20th anniversary of the mission.

Date: 05-13-2022Loction: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSubject: Crew-5 astronauts Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, Koichi Wakata and 68S crew members Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, Anna Kikina and Frank Rubio in Emergency Scenarios Joint Crew training in SVMFPhotographer: James Blair

JSC2012-E-208815 (15 Aug. 2012) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer and Expedition 39 commander, gets help donning a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit in preparation for a spacewalk training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center.

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

PROPULSION FLOW DYNAMICS

From left to right, Jim Keys, Pilot; Christina Korp, Assistant to Charlie Duke; Nicole Stott, NASA Astronaut (former); Dottie Duke, wife of Charlie Duke, Charlie Duke, NASA Astronaut (former); and Lili Villareal, Operations Flow Manager, Exploration Ground Systems tour the inside of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) during a visit to NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 10, 2021. Visible in the background are the aft booster segments for the Space Launch System. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will test Orion and SLS as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon.

Date: 12/16/13Location: Bldg 9NW, POGO StandSubject: Doug Wheelock in POGO harness to evaluate EVA procedures and preparations for the ammonia coolant leak on ISS

JSC2009-E-244203 (23 Nov. 2009) --- Astronauts George Zamka (center), STS-130 commander; Nicholas Patrick (left) and Robert Behnken, both mission specialists, participate in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A representative of ILC Dover monitors how much internal pressure a newly designed glove can withstand during a burst test at the 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge, part of NASAs Centennial Challenges Program, at the Astronaut Hall of Fame near NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The nationwide competition focused on developing improved pressure suit gloves for astronauts to use while working in space. During the challenge, inventors tested the gloves to measure dexterity and strength during operation in a glove box which simulates the vacuum of space. Centennial Challenges is NASAs program of technology prizes for the citizen-inventor. The winning prize for the Glove Challenge is $250,000 provided by the Centennial Challenges Program.

Boeing trainers conduct simulations inside the Boeing Exploration Habitat Demonstrator with astronauts to evaluate the internal layout and ergonomics, to support efficient work-life balance aboard a deep space ship.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Vehicle Assembly Building, Jim Landy, NDE specialist, examines flight crew lockers using flash thermography. He is screening the lockers for hidden damage underneath dings and dents that might occur during handling.

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.

Date: 06-30-14Location: NBL, MU-176Subject: Photograph Expedition 43 crew members Scott Kelly from 42S and Terry Virts from 41S during ISS EVA Maintenance 7 - 1G training with instructor Sandy Moore.

The 2017 class of astronaut candidates tour the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay during a familiarization tour at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In front, at right, is Glenn Chin, deputy manager, Orion Production Operations Office. The candidates toured center facilities, including the Vehicle Assembly Building; Launch Control Center, Launch Pad 39B and the Space Station Processing Facility. They also toured Boeing's Commercial Crew and Cargo Facility, and United Launch Alliance's Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The candidates will spend about two years getting to know the space station systems and learning how to spacewalk, speak Russian, control the International Space Station's robotic arm and fly T-38s, before they're eligible to be assigned to a mission.

PHOTO DATE: 03-12-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 41 crew (Soyuz 39)with Suraev, Wiseman, Gerst for 3 person emergency scenarios training in the ISS mockups.

JSC2012-E-034232 (8 March 2012) --- NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 32 flight engineer and Expedition 33 commander; NASA astronaut Joe Acaba (center), 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.

Date: 07-01-14Location: Bldg 9NW, POGO stationSubject: Expedition 44/45 crew members Kjell Lindgren and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui during ISS EVA Hi-Fi Hardware 2 training with instructor Scott Way

PHOTO DATE: 03/14/12LOCATION: B9 ISS MOCKUPSSUBJECT: Expedition 32 (Soyuz 31) crew members Aki Hoshide, Sunita Williams and Yuri Malenchenko during Emergency Scene ASIGND3 training.

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.

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