International Space Station Activities

Astronauts conducting experiments and maintenance inside the International Space Station. Focus on equipment handling and the unique microgravity environment.

S119-E-006713 (20 March 2009) --- Astronaut Richard Arnold, STS-119 mission specialist,almost appears to be suspended from the "ceiling" of Discovery's mid deck as he completes a flight day six task.

ISS009-E-10551 (4 June 2004) --- Astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke, Expedition 9 NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, moves the Zero-G Storage Rack (ZSR) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station (ISS) in order to retrieve the spare Remote Power Controller Module (RPCM), scheduled to replace the failed RPCM on the S0 (S-Zero) Truss. Fincke is positioned above the ZSR, which has been pulled from the Express Rack.

S124-E-009882 (10 June 2008) --- Astronaut Ron Garan, STS-124 mission specialist, floats in the Harmony node of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the station.

ISS015-E-15651 (2 July 2007) --- Cosmonaut Fyodor N. Yurchikhin, Expedition 15 commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, works with an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station.

ISS013-E-36887 (13 June 2006) --- Astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams, Expedition 13 NASA space station science officer and flight engineer, deactivates the Crew Health Care System (CHeCS) rack in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.

ISS031-E-140600 (1 June 2012) --- European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, Expedition 31 flight engineer, works with the Ryutai Rack in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.

ISS005-E-11300 (27 August 2002) --- Cosmonaut Sergei Y. Treschev, Expedition Five flight engineer, uses an amateur radio in the functional cargo block (FGB) on the International Space Station (ISS). Treschev represents Rosaviakosmos.

S130-E-008484 (15 Feb. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Terry Virts, STS-130 pilot, floats freely on the middeck of space shuttle Endeavour while docked with the International Space Station.

S119-E-006713 (20 March 2009) --- Astronaut Richard Arnold, STS-119 mission specialist,almost appears to be suspended from the "ceiling" of Discovery's mid deck as he completes a flight day six task.

S130-E-008077 (15 Feb. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Terry Virts, STS-130 pilot, is pictured floating freely in the newly-installed Tranquility node of the International Space Station while space shuttle Endeavour remains docked with the station.

ISS030-E-033523 (30 Dec. 2011) --- European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, Expedition 30 flight engineer, trims his hair in the Tranquility node of the International Space Station. Kuipers used hair clippers fashioned with a vacuum device to garner freshly cut hair.

S126-E-011966 (26 Nov. 2008) --- Astronaut Eric Boe, STS-126 pilot, looks over a procedures manual on the aft flight deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, scheduled to undock from the International Space Station later in the week.

ISS015-E-22180 (12 Aug. 2007) --- Astronaut Clay Anderson, Expedition 15 flight engineer, pauses for a photo while using a camera near the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Endeavour while docked with the International Space Station.

ISS018-E-009353 (20 Nov. 2008) --- Astronaut Michael Fincke, Expedition 18 commander, works in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-126) remains docked with the station.

S118-E-09283 (18 Aug. 2007) --- Canadian Space Agency's astronaut Dave Williams (right), and astronaut Rick Mastracchio (left), both STS-118 mission specialists, along with Charlie Hobaugh (left, partially out of frame), pilot, work on the middeck of Space Shuttle Endeavour as the crew prepares for their return home. Hatches were closed between the International Space Station and Endeavour at 4:10 p.m. on Aug. 18.

ISS036-E-027931 (2 Aug. 2013) --- NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Expedition 36 flight engineer, uses a computer while working with Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station.

ISS015-E-31815 (4 Oct. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Oleg V. Kotov, Expedition 15 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, works on a respiration experiment in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

S119-E-006905 (21 March 2009) --- Astronaut Richard Arnold, STS-119 mission specialist, uses a communication system while referring to a procedures checklist on the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station.

S125-E-012366 (20 May 2009) --- Astronaut Gregory C. Johnson, STS-125 pilot, rests in his sleeping bag on the flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis at the end of flight day 10.

ISS018-E-040984 (18 March 2009) --- Astronaut Lee Archambault, STS-119 commander, is pictured on the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station.

ISS024-E-014956 (16 Sept. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Shannon Walker, Expedition 24 flight engineer, works with Muscle Atrophy Resistive Exercise System (MARES) hardware during installation of MARES payload in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station.

S120-E-007918 (1 Nov. 2007) --- Astronaut Scott Parazynski, STS-120 mission specialist, floats between two Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the station.

S127-E-006556 (17 July 2009) --- Astronaut Christopher Cassidy, STS-127 mission specialist, is at the controls on the aft flight deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavourduring rendezvous and docking activities between the shuttle and the International Space Station.

ISS011-E-13101 (16 Sept. 2005) --- Astronaut John L. Phillips, Expedition 11 NASA space station science officer and flight engineer, balances on the footplate of a special track attached to the Human Research Facility (HRF) rack in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station to perform Foot/Ground Reaction Forces During Spaceflight (FOOT) / Electromyography (EMG) calibration operations. Phillips is wearing the Lower Extremity Monitoring Suit (LEMS), the cycling tights outfitted with 20 sensors, which measures forces on joints and muscle activity.

ISS026-E-011363 (19 Dec. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (top), Expedition 26 commander; and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, flight engineer, are pictured at their crew quarters compartments in the Harmony node of the International Space Station.

ISS020-E-037099 (31 Aug. 2009) --- European Space Agency astronauts Frank De Winne (left), Expedition 20 flight engineer; and Christer Fuglesang, STS-128 mission specialist, work at the Harmony nodes nadir hatch of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery remains docked with the station.

ISS030-E-007555 (3 Dec. 2011) --- NASA astronaut Dan Burbank (foreground), Expedition 30 commander, uses a still camera while Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, flight engineer, reads a procedures checklist in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.

ISS021-E-016413 (29 Oct. 2009) --- European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne, Expedition 21 commander, works near the vestibule between the International Space Stations Harmony node and the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) in preparation for the release of the HTV scheduled for Oct. 30, 2009.

ISS015-E-15662 (2 July 2007) --- Astronaut Clayton C. Anderson, Expedition 15 flight engineer, works with an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station.

S135-E-009507 (18 July 2011) --- In the Quest airlock of the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Mike Fossum (left) and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev, both Expedition 28 flight engineers, check out an electronic still camera. A little over a week ago, Fossum and crewmate NASA astronaut Ron Garan began and ended an historic spacewalk in the airlock.

ISS014-E-17232 (17 March 2007) --- Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, Expedition 14 commander and NASA space station science officer, does a check of the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) Beacon / Beacon Tester in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.

S119-E-006653 (19 March 2009) --- Astronaut John Phillips, STS-119 mission specialist, works the controls of the station's robotic Canadarm2 in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery remains docked with the station.

ISS025-E-008371 (20 Oct. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock, Expedition 25 commander, uses Neurospat hardware to perform a science session with the European Space Agency PASSAGES experiment in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station. PASSAGES is designed to test how astronauts interpret visual information in weightlessness. It aims at studying the effects of microgravity on the use of the Eye-Height’ strategy for estimating allowed actions in an environment, and whether this could possibly decrease after a long exposure to weightlessness.

ISS014-E-13403 (February 2007) --- Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, Expedition 14 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, works with hardware in the Pirs Docking Compartment of the International Space Station.

ISS041-E-045298 (29 Sept. 2014) --- NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore, Expedition 41 flight engineer, conducts a scrub and cleansing of the water loops in his U.S. Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station.

S123-E-006370 (15 March 2008) --- NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, Expedition 16 flight engineer, smiles for a photo at the galley on the middeck of Space Shuttle Endeavour while docked with the International Space Station.

S121-E-07238 (13 July 2006) --- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Reiter, Expedition 13 flight engineer, looks over a procedures checklist in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery was docked with the station. Reiter launched on Discovery with the STS-121 crew and officially became an Expedition 13 crewmember after the shuttle docked with the station.

S120-E-006416 (25 Oct. 2007) --- Astronauts Scott Parazynski (left) and George Zamka, STS-120 mission specialist and pilot, respectively, float in the Zarya module of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the station.

ISS030-E-010539 (14 Dec. 2011) --- Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, Expedition 30 flight engineer, conducts an active session for the Russian experiment KPT-10 Kulonovskiy Kristall” (Coulomb Crystal) in the Poisk Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM2) of the International Space Station.

STS095-E-5204 (4 Nov. 1998) --- Astronauts Pedro Duque (left) and Steven W. Lindsey take a break from busy experimentation onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery during Flight Day 7. Lindsey is pilot and Duque, a mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA) for the STS-95 flight. The photo was taken with an electronic still camera (ESC) at 19:04:45 GMT, Nov. 4.

ISS009-E-06467 (11 May 2004) --- Astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke, Expedition 9 NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, floats in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station (ISS).

iss063e028016 (June 13, 2020) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Flight Engineer Bob Behnken poses with a U.S. spacesuit he is preparing for two spacewalks planned for June 26 and July 1 to upgrade power systems on the International Space Station.

S124-E-006029 (3 June 2008) --- Astronaut Ken Ham, STS-124 pilot, works the controls on the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station.

ISS018-E-009227 (18 Nov. 2008) --- Astronaut Donald Pettit, STS-126 mission specialist, floats in the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module attached to the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station's Harmony node while Space Shuttle Endeavour is docked with the station.

S119-E-006372 (17 March 2009) --- Astronaut Steve Swanson, STS-119 mission specialist, exercises on the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery.

ISS034-E-056144 (21 Feb. 2013) --- Inside the U.S. Laboratory (Destiny) aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Statio, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, Expedition 34 commander, is seen with the Fluids Integration Rack (FIR)/Light Microscopy Module (LMM)/Advanced Colloids Experiment (ACE). ACE samples, which produce microscopic images of materials containing small colloidal particles, are scheduled for arrival on SpaceX-2 in the first week of March.

ISS018-E-009691 (30 Nov. 2008) --- Cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, Expedition 18 flight engineer, monitors the approach of the Progress 31 supply vehicle at the manual TORU docking system controls in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station. Progress 31 docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment at 6:28 a.m. (CST) on Nov. 30, after a four day flight from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Lonchakov used the TORU system to bring the Progress to its docking port.

S115-E-06523 (16 Sept. 2006) --- STS-115 and Expedition 13 crewmembers enjoy a light moment in the Unity node of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Atlantis was docked with the station. From the left are cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, Expedition 13 commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency; astronauts Jeffrey N. Williams, NASA space station science officer and flight engineer; Thomas Reiter, flight engineer representing the European Space Agency (ESA); Christopher J. Ferguson, STS-115 pilot; Daniel C. Burbank (top) and Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, both STS-115 mission specialists.

ISS040-E-020364 (26 June 2014) --- European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, Expedition 40 flight engineer, shaves the head of NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, commander, in the Unity node of the International Space Station. Gerst used hair clippers fashioned with a vacuum device to garner freshly cut hair. A friendly World Cup Soccer-related agreement between the crew members representing the USA, and Gerst, a German citizen who represents the European Space Agency, called for the American losers of a German-USA match to have their heads shaved. The German team won the match 1-0.

S100-E-5312 (23 April 2001) --- Astronaut Kent V. Rominger, STS-100 mission commander, tours the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS) not long after the seven-member STS-100 crew went aboard the orbital outpost and reunited with the station's second crew. The image was recorded with a digital still camera.

Expedition 67 Flight Engineers from NASA (from left) Kjell Lindgren and Tom Marshburn pose for a portrait inside the International Space Station's Unity module.

S119-E-006970 (21 March 2009) --- Astronaut Steve Swanson, STS-119 mission specialist, attired in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, is pictured in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station as the missions second session of extravehicular activity (EVA) draws to a close.

ISS038-E-031384 (14 Jan. 2014) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, holds a brass ring at the Zero-Gravity Stowage Rack (ZSR) in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.

iss059e087866 (June 3, 2019) --- NASA astronaut Nick Hague signs the inside of the vestibule between the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft and the Harmony module. The hatch to Dragon was later closed and the resupply ship detached from Harmony before it was released from the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm. Dragon spent nearly a month attached to the International Space Station.

STS111-E-5105 (7 June 2002) --- Astronauts Peggy A. Whitson (background), Expedition Five flight engineer, and Carl E. Walz, Expedition Four flight engineer, are photographed on the International Space Station (ISS). The two are in the process of changing roles.

ISS040-E-006033 (29 May 2014) --- NASA astronaut Steve Swanson (center), Expedition 40 commander; along with European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (left) and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, both flight engineers, give a thumbs up” signal in the Harmony node of the International Space Station.

ISS004-E-10029 (12 April 2002) --- Astronauts Daniel W. Bursch (left), Expedition Four flight engineer, and Jerry L. Ross, STS-110 mission specialist, work in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).

ISS020-E-026348 (30 July 2009) --- Astronaut Tim Kopra, Expedition 20 flight engineer, smiles for the camera as he completes the task of placing samples taken for the Nutritional Status Assessment (NUTRITION) w/Repository study into the Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.

ISS030-E-175784 (15 Jan. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, works with two still cameras mounted together in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. One camera is an infrared modified still camera.

ISS020-E-030457 (13 Aug. 2009) --- Astronaut Tim Kopra, Expedition 20 flight engineer, looks over a checklist in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station.

ISS002-E-5532 (12 April 2001) --- Astronaut James S. Voss, Expedition Two flight engineer, has a coffee and a snack at the table in the Zvezda / Service Module of the International Space Station (ISS). This image was recorded with a digital still camera.

S115-E-05295 (9 Sept. 2006) --- Astronaut Joseph R. Tanner, STS-115 mission specialist, prepares to remove one of the launch and entry seats on mid deck of Atlantis soon after the crew reached Earth orbit. Atlantis and its crew will see a busy number of days before the mid deck seats get re-deployed for entry and landing.

iss056e101070 (Aug. 1, 2018) --- Expedition 56 Flight Engineer Ricky Arnold inspects U.S. spacesuits and tethers in the Quest airlock ahead of a pair of U.S. spacewalks currently planned for September.

ISS040-E-020345 (25 June 2014) --- In the International Space Stations Destiny laboratory, NASA astronaut Steve Swanson (foreground), Expedition 40 commander; and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, flight engineer, participate in a training session for the robotic capture of the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo craft, set to launch on the Orbital-2 commercial resupply services flight no earlier than July 10.

ISS030-E-078157 (16 Feb. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Dan Burbank (right), Expedition 30 commander; and Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, flight engineer, work in the International Space Stations Pirs Docking Compartment as the crew prepares for a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) to continue outfitting the International Space Station.

ISS015-E-22194 (12 Aug. 2007) --- Astronaut Rick Mastracchio, STS-118 mission specialist, prepares a beverage at the galley on the middeck of Space Shuttle Endeavour while docked with the International Space Station.

S119-E-008178 (25 March 2009) --- Astronauts Steve Swanson (bottom left), Richard Arnold and Joseph Acaba (right), all STS-119 mission specialists, are pictured on the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery during flight day 11 activities.

S119-E-006648 (19 March 2009) --- Astronaut Tony Antonelli, STS-119 pilot, uses a communication system in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery remains docked with the station.

ISS028-E-005938 (27 May 2011) --- NASA astronauts Greg Chamitoff (left) and Michael Fincke (right), both STS-134 mission specialists, attired in Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits, prepare for the start of the missions fourth session of extravehicular activity (EVA) in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Mark Kelly (center right), STS-134 commander; and Ron Garan, Expedition 28 flight engineer, assisted Chamitoff and Fincke.

S132-E-012202 (23 May 2010) --- NASA astronaut Ken Ham, STS-132 commander, occupies the commanders station on the forward flight deck of space shuttle Atlantis during flight day 10 activities. NASA astronaut Steve Bowen, mission specialist, is at left.

ISS005-E-08079 (July 2002) --- Astronaut Peggy A. Whitson (left) and cosmonaut Sergei Y. Treschev, both Expedition Five flight engineers, work in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). Treschev represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS026-E-028133 (5 Feb. 2011) --- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, Expedition 26 commander, is pictured in the Cupola of the International Space Station.

ISS034-E-007409 (12 Dec. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, Expedition 34 commander, performs in-flight maintenance on the Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR) Multi-user Droplet Combustion Apparatus (MDCA) in the International Space Stations Destiny laboratory.

S133-E-008818 (5 March 2011) --- NASA astronaut Steve Bowen, STS-133 mission specialist, signs the STS-133 patch, which was added to the growing collection of insignias representing crews who performed spacewalks from the Quest airlock of the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, mission specialist, looks on.

iss060e019633 (7/29/2019) --- NASA Astronaut Nick Hague with the BioFabrication Facility (BFF) aboard the International space Station (ISS).

ISS018-E-046100 (5 April 2009) --- Astronaut Michael Fincke, Expedition 18 commander, works inside the Kibo laboratory airlock of the International Space Station.

ISS026-E-022581 (27 Dec. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, Expedition 26 commander, works with Capillary Channel Flow (CCF) experiment hardware in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. CCF is a versatile experiment for studying a critical variety of inertial-capillary dominated flows key to spacecraft systems that cannot be studied on the ground.

S130-E-008469 (15 Feb. 2010) --- NASA astronauts George Zamka (right), STS-130 commander; and Terry Virts, pilot, are pictured on the middeck of space shuttle Endeavour while docked with the International Space Station.

S130-E-007246 (11 Feb. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Nicholas Patrick, STS-130 mission specialist, is pictured near a mirror on the middeck of space shuttle Endeavour while docked with the International Space Station.

S129-E-006817 (19 Nov. 2009) --- In the Quest airlock, astronaut Barry E. Wilmore (center), STS-129 pilot, assists crewmates Robert L. Satcher Jr. (left) and Mike Foreman, mission specialists, in getting ready for their flight day four space walk.

ISS020-E-006152 (3 June 2009) --- Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk (left) and European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne, both Expedition 20 flight engineers, perform in-flight maintenance on the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

ISS023-E-027160 (24 April 2010) --- NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Expedition 23 flight engineer, prepares the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) for relocation from the Harmony node to its final place in the Tranquility node of the International Space Station.

ISS022-E-019992 (6 Jan. 2010) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, Expedition 22 flight engineer, is pictured near the Japanese Experiment Module Remote Manipulator System (JEMRMS) Small Fine Arm (SFA) in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.

ISS030-E-177317 (28 March 2012) --- European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko (foreground), both Expedition 30 flight engineers, monitor the approach and docking of ESAs “Edoardo Amaldi” Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

ISS021-E-032273 (23 Nov. 2009) --- European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne, Expedition 21 commander, holds the failed Urine Processor Assembly / Distillation Assembly (UPA DA) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station while space shuttle Atlantis remains docked with the station. De Winne and NASA astronaut Leland Melvin (out of frame), STS-129 mission specialist, removed and packed the UPA DA, then transferred it from the Water Recovery System 2 (WRS-2) rack to Atlantis for stowage on the middeck.

ISS026-E-031609 (3 March 2011) --- NASA astronaut Eric Boe (left), STS-133 pilot; and Steve Bowen, mission specialist, are pictured in the Unity node of the International Space Station while space shuttle Discovery remains docked with the station.

S88-E-5166 (12-08-98) --- Astronaut Robert D. Cabana, mission commander, shaves on Endeavour's middeck. Sergei K. Krikalev, mission specialist representing the Russian Space Agency, is in the background. The photo was taken with an electronic still camera (ESC) at 23:20:40 GMT, Dec. 8.

ISS039-E-020885 (13 May 2014) --- Inside the Harmony node of the International Space Station, Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA works with the Petri Plants experiment on May 13, 2014. Only hours after this picture was taken, Swanson took over command of the orbital outpost.

ISS040-E-020346 (25 June 2014) --- In the International Space Stations Destiny laboratory, NASA astronaut Steve Swanson (foreground), Expedition 40 commander; and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, flight engineer, participate in a training session for the robotic capture of the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo craft, set to launch on the Orbital-2 commercial resupply services flight no earlier than July 10.

ISS030-E-148284 (13 March 2012) --- European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, Expedition 30 flight engineer, performs routine in-flight maintenance on Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) equipment in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station.

iss059e006481 (March 31, 2019) --- Astronauts David Saint-Jacques and Nick Hague eagerly await pizzas being cooked aboard the International Space Station's galley.

S126-E-011514 (26 Nov. 2008) --- Astronaut Eric Boe, STS-126 pilot, checks on the lithium hydroxide canisters beneath the middeck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

S129-E-006271 (17 Nov. 2009) --- Astronaut Charles O. Hobaugh, STS-129 commander, eats a snack on the middeck of Space Shuttle Atlantis during flight day two activities.

ISS020-E-024163 (24 July 2009) --- Astronauts Mike Barratt (top center), Expedition 20 flight engineer, and Dave Wolf (bottom center), STS-127 mission specialist, assist astronaut Tom Marshburn (left) and Christopher Cassidy following the completion of the fourth spacewalk for the joint shuttle-station crews currently aboard the International Space Station while it is docked to the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

ISS022-E-035434 (25 Jan. 2010) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Expedition 22 flight engineer, works with the Plasma Crystal-3 experiment in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

S124-E-005646 (2 June 2008) --- Astronaut Ken Ham, STS-124 pilot, eats a snack at the galley on the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery during flight day three activities.

ISS014-E-15479 (28 Feb. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, Expedition 14 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, checks the progress of plants growing in the Russian Lada greenhouse in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

ISS028-E-016584 (14 July 2011) --- Half the crewmembers for the joint Atlantis- International Space Station complex prepare to enjoy "The All-American Meal" on the shuttle's middeck on July 14. NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus, STS-135 mission specialist, floats at top frame. In more stationary positions are, from the left, NASA astronaut Ron Garan, and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov, Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev.

ISS020-E-046945 (5 Oct. 2009) --- Crew members on the International Space Station share a meal near the galley in the Zvezda Service Module. Pictured from the left are NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer; European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne, Expedition 20 flight engineer and Expedition 21 commander; Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, Expedition 19/20 commander; Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, Expedition 20/21 flight engineer; and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams, Expedition 21 flight engineer and Expedition 22 commander; along with NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, Expedition 20/21 flight engineer.

ISS036-E-035797 (23 Aug. 2013) --- Five of the six Expedition 36 crew members are pictured in the International Space Stations Kibo laboratory during a daily planning conference. Pictured clockwise (from bottom left) are European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, all flight engineers; Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, commander; and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, flight engineer.

ISS029-E-040705 (8 Nov. 2011) --- NASA astronaut Mike Fossum (left), Expedition 29 commander; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, flight engineer, enjoy a snack in the Unity node of the International Space Station.

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