Astronauts Preparing for Space Launch

Images depict astronauts in Russian Sokol suits undergoing pressure checks at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, highlighting pre-launch preparations for space missions.

PHOTO DATE: 03/22/12LOCATION: JSC NBLSUBJECT: Koichi Wakata during EVA Training at the NBL

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Date: 11-07-12Location: NBL - Pool TopsideSubject: Expedition 40 crew members (Soyuz 39) Reid Wiseman and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst during INC-40 ISS EVA ORU PRF 41027.

April 10, 2003. Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Building 254, Soyuz Integration Facility. Astronaut Michael Foale (left standing), backup crew for Expedition Seven, talks with Astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer for Expedition Seven. Seated on the right is Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition Seven commander. The crew is reviewing documents prior to entering the Soyuz TMA-2 capsule for inspection and seat liner check.

Expedition 26 NASA Flight Engineer Catherine Coleman has her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked prior to her launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 in Kazakhstan. Coleman and fellow Expedition 26 crew members Soyuz Commander Dmitry Kondratryev and ESA Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli launched in their Soyuz TMA-20 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the following morning at 1:09 a.m. local time. (

Expedition 33/34 crew members, NASA Astronaut and Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, left, Russian Cosmonaut and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Russian Cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, far right, talk to family members through glass from the room where they just had their Russian Sokol suits pressure checked ahead of their launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the International Space Station, Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

Expedition 55 flight engineer Drew Feustel of NASA waves farewell to family and friends as he and Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and flight engineer Ricky Arnold of NASA depart for the launch pad a few hours before their launch, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Feustel, Artemyev, and Arnold on a five month mission aboard the International Space Station.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the Astronaut Hall of Fame near NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Anna Heiney, a Public Affairs support writer with Abacus Technology at Kennedy, tries out a pair of space gloves for their dexterity and flexibility in a glove box at the 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge, part of NASAs Centennial Challenges Program. Looking over his shoulder is Kennedy Director Bob Cabana.The nationwide competition focused on developing improved pressure suit gloves for astronauts to use while working in space. During the challenge, the gloves were submitted to burst tests, joint force tests and tests to measure their 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.

Expedition 44/45 crew training with NASA Astronaut Kjell Lindgren and JAXA Astronaut Kimiya Yui during INC 44 ISS EVA Maintenance 2 with IV Scott Kelly. Photo Date: December 6, 2013. Location: NBL - Pool Topside.

JSC2007-E-18060 (9 April 2007) --- Astronauts Daniel M. Tani (foreground right), Expedition 16 flight engineer; European Space Agency's (ESA) Paolo Nespoli (background right) and Douglas H. Wheelock (background center), both STS-120 mission specialists, don training versions of their shuttle launch and entry suits in preparation for a training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center. Tani is scheduled to join Expedition 16 as flight engineer after launching to the International Space Station on mission STS-120 and is scheduled to return home on mission STS-122. United Space Alliance suit technician Ryan Carabaja assisted Tani.

5542:In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 42/43 crewmember Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency climbs into the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft during a fit check” dress rehearsal Nov. 12. Cristoforetti, Terry Virts of NASA and Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time, from Baikonur for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.NASA/Victor Ivanov

Expedition 24 NASA Flight Engineer Shannon Walker dons her Russian Sokol Suit with the help of suit technicians at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, June 15, 2010.

STS-129 Water Survival Training at the NBL. Photo Date: March 30, 2009. Location: NBL - Pool Topside.

jsc2019e053723 - At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates takes a spin in a rotating chair Sept. 18 to test his vestibular system as part of pre-launch activities. Along with Expedition 61 crewmembers Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and Jessica Meir of NASA, they will launch Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft for a mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov

PHOTO DATE: 25 April 2013LOCATION: Bldg. 7, SSATA ChamberSUBJECT: Astronaut Mike Hopkins during SSATA ISS Increment 39 EMU Dry Run Certification. Astronaut and fellow crew member Steve Swanson assists.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts participate in crew equipment interface testing at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on Sept. 24, 2020. From left are pilot Victor Glover, NASA astronaut; mission specialist Soichi Noguchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut; and mission specialist Shannon Walker, NASA astronaut. The other crew member training, but not pictured, is Crew Dragon commander Michael Hopkins, NASA astronaut. NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 mission is the first crew rotational flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station. The Crew-1 mission will launch from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Crew-1 is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which has returned human spaceflight capabilities to the U.S.

Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, right, having donned his Russian Sokol suit at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, takes a moment to talk with Expedition 14 backup crew member Peggy Whitson, Monday, Sept. 18, 2006, in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 10:09 a.m. local time carrying Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, Soyuz Commander and Expedition 14 Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin and American spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari, who will spend nine days on the International Space Station under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, left, and former NASA astronaut Andy Thomas, right, are reflected in the visor of a spacesuit replica as they talk 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.

jsc2018e050002 - In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 crewmember Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency poses for pictures May 20 as he prepares to board the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for the first fit check dress rehearsal activities. Gerst, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos will launch June 6 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.

(18 May 1969) --- A technician attaches hose from test stand to spacesuit of astronaut John W. Young, Apollo 10 command module pilot, during final suiting operations for the Apollo 10 lunar orbit mission.

Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford is helped into his Russian Sokol suit as he and fellow cremates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

jsc2017e135202 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 54-55 prime crewmember Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) signs in for the start of the crews final qualification exam activities Nov. 29. Kanai, Scott Tingle of NASA and Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch Dec. 17 on the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger.

jsc2017e114475 (Aug. 28, 2017) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 53-54 crewmember Joe Acaba of NASA enters the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft during pre-launch training activities Aug. 28. Acaba, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and Mark Vande Hei of NASA will launch Sept. 13 on the Soyuz MS-06 for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts participate in crew equipment interface testing at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on Sept. 24, 2020. From left are Crew Dragon commander Michael Hopkins, NASA astronaut; and mission specialist Soichi Noguchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut. Other crew members training, but not pictured, are pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Shannon Walker, both NASA astronauts. NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 mission is the first crew rotational flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station. The Crew-1 mission will launch from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Crew-1 is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which has returned human spaceflight capabilities to the U.S.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-4 at NASM. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins, and Robert Hines are seen with Neil Armstrongs A7-L pressure suit from the Apollo 11 mission in the Destination Moon exhibit during a tour, Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Lindgren, Hines, and Watkins spent 170 days in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68 aboard the International Space Station.

JSC2008-E-018318 (27 Feb. 2008) --- Astronaut K. Megan McArthur, STS-125 mission specialist, dons a training version of her shuttle launch and entry suit in preparation for a training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at Johnson Space Center. United Space Alliance (USA) suit technician Cody McNeil assisted McArthur.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts participate in crew equipment interface testing at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on Sept. 24, 2020. From left are mission specialist Soichi Noguchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut, and Crew-1 pilot Victor Glover. The other Crew-1 astronauts also training, but not pictured, are mission specialist Shannon Walker, and Crew Dragon commander Michael Hopkins, all NASA astronauts. NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 mission is the first crew rotational flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station. The Crew-1 mission will launch from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Crew-1 is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which has returned human spaceflight capabilities to the U.S.

PHOTO DATE: 08-08-13LOCATION: NBL - Pool TopsideSUBJECT: Expedition 44 crew members Kjell Lindren and Kimiya Yui (JAXA) during INC-44 ISS EVA Maintence

NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 Live Launch Coverage. NASAs SpaceX Crew-5 walks out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 5, 2022. In front are NASA astronauts Josh Cassada (left) and Nicole Mann, and behind them are Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina (left) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata. They will board two Tesla vehicles for the trip to Kennedys Launch Complex 39A, where they will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceXs Dragon Endurance spacecraft for a science expedition mission as part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program. SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at noon EDT.

Expedition 64 NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, back, and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, middle, and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos are seen inside the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft during a fit check, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio are preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 14, Baikonur time.

A man taking a picture with a cell phone is seen reflected in the glass separating the quarantined crew during a press conference on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission to the International Space Station is set to launch May 29 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley, foreground, and Bob Behnken don SpaceX spacesuits in the Astronaut Crew Quarters at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 17, 2020, during a dress rehearsal ahead of the companys uncrewed In-Flight Abort Test. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft will lift off from Launch Complex 39A on the flight test, which will demonstrate the spacecrafts escape capabilities in preparation for crewed flights to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. Hurley and Behnken are slated to fly on the companys first crewed mission, Demo-2.

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 34/35 Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency strikes a playful pose with his Sokol launch and entry suit Dec. 7, 2012 during a fit check” dress rehearsal. Hadfield, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA are preparing for launch Dec. 19 in their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.

STS-128 crew during CCT BAILOUT with Expedition astronaut Nicole Stott.

Astronaut Bob Behnken examines a SuperDraco engine during a tour of the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX is developing its Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket in partnership with NASAs Commercial Crew Program to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

Expedition 35 NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy is helped into his Russian Sokol suit as he and fellow crewmates, Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov, and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Thursday, March 28, 2013, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Cassidy, Vinogradov and Misurkin on a five and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station.

Astronaut Nicole Mann gets suited up for a Boeing/United Launch Alliance emergency egress system demonstration at Cape Canaveral Air Force Stations Launch Complex 41 in Florida on June 19, 2018. The emergency egress system will allow for a safe evacuation in the unlikely event of an emergency on the launch pad on launch day. It can carry up to 20 people more than 1,300 feet away from the crew access tower and the launch vehicle.

Date: 11-07-12Location: NBL - Pool TopsideSubject: Expedition 40 crew members (Soyuz 39) Reid Wiseman and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst during INC-40 ISS EVA ORU PRF 41027.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 39/40 backup crewmember and Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of Roscosmos (foreground) signs in for the first of two days of qualification exams March 4 as his crewmate, Elena Serova of Roscosmos looks on. The prime crew - Steve Swanson of NASA and Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos are preparing to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station on March 26, Kazakh time, on their Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft for a six-month mission.NASA/Stephanie Stoll

Crew-4 mission astronaut Bob Hines relaxes in the suit room inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters inside Kennedy Space Centers Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on April 27, 2022. A team of SpaceX suit technicians assisted Hines, along with Crew-4 members Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins, and Samantha Cristoforetti, as they put on their custom-fitted spacesuits and checked the suits for leaks. The four astronauts will launch aboard SpaceXs Crew Dragon, powered by the companys Falcon 9 rocket, to the International Space Station as part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program. Crew-4 is scheduled to lift off today at 3:52 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy.

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Houston, USA, January 26, 2013: Astronaut training facility and detailed object closeups at Houston Space Center in Texas, USA, North America

Perseid Meteor flight on Google's Gulfstream Aircraft. P.I. Peter Jenniskens, SETI Group with C.C. Crawford, Meteor Society, CA

The Russian Sokol suits of Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson and Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor are laid out prior to suit-up by the crew, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko was the first to don his flight suit. The three crew members launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at sunset in their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft bound for a docking to the International Space Station on Oct. 12. Whitson and Malenchenko will spend six months on the station, while Shukor will return to Earth Oct. 21 with two of the Expedition 15 crewmembers currently on the complex.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 Splashdown. Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN after he, NASA astronauts Warren "Woody" Hoburg, Stephen Bowen, and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi landed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev are returning after nearly six-months in space as part of Expedition 69 aboard the International Space Station.

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A participant at a NASA Social in Washington tweets as he listens to astronaut Joe Acaba answer questions about his time living aboard the International Space Station, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 at NASA Headquarters. NASA astronaut Joe Acaba launched to the ISS on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft May 15, 2012, spending 123 days aboard as a flight engineer of the Expedition 31 and 32 crews. He recently returned to Earth on Sept. 17 after four months in low earth orbit.

At the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a technician conducts a leak check of the Russian Sokol launch and entry suit of Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank of NASA during the first of two fit checks” of the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft he, Flight Engineer Anatoly Ivanishin and Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov will launch in November 14 from Baikonur to the International Space Station.November 1, 2011

Expedition 37/38 NASA Engineer Michael Hopkins is seen speaking to his family after having his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked ahead of his launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft to the International Space Station, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send the Expedition 37/38 crewmates on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

Expedition 59 astronaut Christina Koch of NASA is blessed by a Russian Orthodox Priest in the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to departing for launch on a Soyuz rocket with Nick Hague of NASA, and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin will launch March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.

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Boeing Crew Training. From left, NASA astronaut Suni Williams, Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) pilot, watches as NASA astronaut Barry Butch” Wilmore, CFT commander, checks out his spacesuit and helmet during a crew validation test inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 18, 2022. Williams and Wilmore, along with Mike Fincke, CFT backup spacecraft test pilot, with assistance from the Boeing team, successfully completed the validation test during which they suited up and tested out the pressurized crew module to ensure seat fit, suit functionality, cabin temperature, audio system, and day of launch operations. Boeing’s CFT is scheduled to launch in April 2023.

Workers clean the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft after it is lowered into position for encapsulation with its fairing, Friday, March 20, 2015 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, and Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time. As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016.

Expedition 34/35 Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield has his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked ahead of his launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft to the International Space Station with fellow cremates, Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn and Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko, on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Hadfield, Romanenko and Marshburn on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut and Maryland native Ricky Arnold signs an autograph before the Tampa Bay Rays take on the Baltimore Orioles, Saturday, May 4, 2019 at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Md. During Arnolds 197 days onboard the International Space Station, as part of Expeditions 55 and 56, he ventured outside the space station on three spacewalks in addition to conducting numerous experiments and educational downlink events.

Behind the rope, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (left) and Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard pause for a photo with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken (left) and Douglas Hurley inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, ahead of the agencys SpaceX Demo-2 mission The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off at 3:22 p.m. EDT from historic Launch Complex 39A. Behnken and Hurley are the first astronauts to launch to the International Space Station from U.S. soil since the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceXs final flight test, paving the way for the agency to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory.

jsc2018e064787 (07/18/2018) --- 2017 NASA astronaut candidate Bob Hines is in a Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment and being helped into a spacesuit prior to underwater spacewalk training at NASAs Johnson Space Center Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston. The cooling garment distributes water throughout to help keep him cool while training underwater in the spacesuit.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch is carried to a medical tent shortly after she, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov landed in their Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Koch returned to Earth after logging 328 days in space --- the longest spaceflight in history by a woman --- as a member of Expeditions 59-60-61 on the International Space Station. Skvortsov and Parmitano returned after 201 days in space where they served as Expedition 60-61 crew members onboard the station.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-5 Splashdown. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata gives a thumbs up after being helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship Shannon shortly after he, along with NASA astronauts Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, Saturday, March 11, 2023. Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikina are returning after 157 days in space as part of Expedition 68 aboard the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, who flew on NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission, poses with his wife, and Crew-2 astronaut Megan McArthur, in the background, as well as their son, left, outside of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on April 23, 2021. McArthur, along with NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, will head to the International Space Station on NASAs SpaceX Crew-2 mission. SpaceXs Crew Dragon Endeavour will launch on the companys Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A today at 5:49 a.m. EDT.

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A visitor poses for a photo in the NASA spacesuit at the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary celebration on the National Mall, Thursday, July 18, 2019 in Washington. Apollo 11 was the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon and launched on July 16, 1969 with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin.

jsc2018e050831 - At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 crewmember Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (kneeling) plants a tree in her name May 29 in traditional pre-launch activities for a first-time flier. Assisting is crewmate Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos. Aunon-Chancellor, Prokopyev and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency 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/Victor Zelentsov.

At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 34/35 backup Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (left) has a chat with prime Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (right) while on exercise equipment Dec. 13, 2012 as preparations continue for the launch of Hadfield, NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA and Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko Dec. 19 on the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Advanced spacesuit designer Amy Ross of the NASA's Johnson Space Center stands with the Z-2, a prototype spacesuit.

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Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to departing the hotel for launch on a Soyuz rocket with fellow cremates flight engineer Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kanai, Shkaplerov, and Tingle will launch in their Soyuz MS-07 to the International Space Station to begin a five month mission.

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