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Astronaut Press Conferences

Snapshots of astronauts engaged in discussions and presentations, highlighting their experiences and missions related to space exploration.

PHOTO DATE: 02-22-10LOCATION: Ellington, 990SUBJECT: STS-130 Crew Return, Ellington Field
PHOTO DATE: 02-22-10LOCATION: Ellington, 990SUBJECT: STS-130 Crew Return, Ellington Field
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At a luncheon celebrating Native American Heritage Month held at the Patrick Air Force Base NCO Club, astronaut John Herrington speaks to invited guests. Herrington is a tribally enrolled Chickasaw and the worlds first Native American astronaut, who last flew on mission STS-113 in 2002.
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JSC2002-E-26031 (21 June 2002) --- Astronaut Kenneth D. Cockrell, STS-111 mission commander, speaks from the lectern in Hangar 990 at Ellington Field during the STS-111 and Expedition Four crew return ceremonies.
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NASA astronaut Ron Garan gives a keynote address at the Susan G. Komen International Global Women's Cancer Summit, held on World Cancer Day, Monday, February 4, 2013 in Washington, D.C. Attendees include world leaders in health and womens cancers, experts in technology and innovation; government leaders, private sector and industry leaders, members of the global health community, media and representatives from community-level organizations.
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NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock talks about his time in space at a STEM day session with students during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, in Washington.
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jsc2018e078861 (Nov. 16, 2017) --- Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 57-58 crew member Alexey Ovchinin is pictured in a Sokol launch and entry suit at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
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Expedition 40 backup Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA is seen during a press conference, Tuesday, May 27, 2014, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 40 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, ESA, and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA will launch aboard their Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft on their mission to the International Space Station in the early hours of May 29.
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In Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium, members of the media participate in a mission briefing on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Omar Baez, launch director, NASAs Launch Services Program, answers questions during the briefing. TESS is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. The satellite will survey the nearest and brightest stars for two years to search for transiting exoplanets. TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 16.
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NASA astronaut Doug Hurley answers a question from the media in front of the Crew Dragon that is being prepared for the Demo-2 mission, at SpaceX Headquarters, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Hawthorne, CA. Hurley and NASA astronaut Bob Behnken are assigned to fly onboard Crew Dragon for the Demo-2 mission.
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13-48-59-3:Inside the Korolev Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA signs his name to a wall mural bearing the picture of a Soyuz rocket launch May 24 during traditional pre-launch ceremonies. Wiseman, Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency will launch May 29, Kazakh time, on the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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Artemis II Day of Launch Demonstration Test ISVV-A1. Inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Artemis II crew member NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman is shown wearing a test version of the Orion crew survival system spacesuits the crew will wear on launch day as part of an integrated ground systems test on Wednesday, Sept. 20.
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NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli poses for a portrait, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, in the Blue Flight Control Room at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-112 Mission Specialist Fyodor Yurchikhin, who is with the Russian Space Agency, shows his happiness at returning to KSC to prepare for launch. He will be making his first Shuttle flight. STS-112, aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis, is the 15th assembly mission to the International Space Station. Atlantis will be carrying the S1 Integrated Truss Structure, the first starboard truss segment, to be attached to the central truss segment, S0, and the Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) Cart A. The CETA is the first of two human-powered carts that will ride along the ISS railway, providing mobile work platforms for future spacewalking astronauts. The 11-day mission includes three spacewalks. Launch is scheduled for Oct. 2 between 2 and 6 p.m.
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. jsc2023e000234_alt (Jan. 6, 2023) --- NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-8 Pilot Mike Barratt poses for a casual portrait at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Banana River Creek VIP viewing area at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, youngsters delight in meeting NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock before the launch of space shuttle Atlantis' STS-135 mission to the International Space Station.Atlantis with its crew of four; Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, lifted off at 11:29 a.m. EDT on July 8, 2011 to deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts for the International Space Station. Atlantis also will fly the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment that will investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing satellites in orbit. In addition, Atlantis will return with a failed ammonia pump module to help NASA better understand the failure mechanism and improve pump designs for future systems. STS-135 is the 33rd flight of Atlantis, the 37th shuttle mission to the space station, and the 135th and fina
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Artemis II Crew Senate Meet and Greet. NASA astronaut Victor Glover gives remarks during a meet and greet, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Glover along with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who will fly around the Moon on NASAs Artemis II flight test, visited Washington to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, responds to a question from the media at a news conference following the landing of space shuttle Endeavour. Wakata spent four months on the International Space Station and returned to Earth on Endeavour with the STS-127 crew. The landing completed the 16-day, 6.5-million mile journey on the STS-127 mission. Endeavour delivered the Japanese Experiment Module's Exposed Facility and the Experiment Logistics Module-Exposed Section to the International Space Station. The mission was the 29th flight to the station, the 23rd flight of Endeavour and the 127th in the Space Shuttle Program, as well as the 71st landing at Kennedy.
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NASAs SpaceX Crew-4 Employee Engagement Event. NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is seen during an employee engagement event, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Watkins, and fellow crewmates NASA astronauts Robert Hines and Kjell Lindgren spent 170 days in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68 aboard the International Space Station.
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jsc2020e016965 - At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 63 crewmember Chris Cassidy of NASA plays a game of ping-pong April 1. Cassidy and Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos will launch April 9 on the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station...Andrey Shelepin/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
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PHOTO DATE: 02-02-10LOCATION: BLDG 9NWSUBJECT: STS-133 full crew during ISS Emergency OverviewWORK ORDER: 0360-STS133ISS-02-02-10
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Quarantined Expedition 32 JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Flight Engineer Akihiko Hoshide answers reporters questions from behind glass during a prelaunch press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel on Friday, July 13, 2012 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Hoshide, Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, and NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams is scheduled for 8:40 a.m. local time on Sunday, July 15.
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PHOTO DATE: 01-14-16LOCATION: Bldg. 8, Room 183 - Photo StudioSUBJECT: Official portrait of ESA astronaut & Expedition 50/51 crew member Thomas Pesquet in blue flight suit.
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Date: 9-15-10Location: Bldg 2N, Press Conf. RoomSubject: Media ops session for Expedition 26/27 press conference.
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Expedition 38 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos is seen in quarantine behind glass during the final press conference held a day ahead of his launch with fellow crew mates, Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA, to the International Space Station, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
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Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA smiles during the crew press conference at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Nyberg and her fellow crew members, Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, were in quarantine and kept behind glass during the press conference in preparation for their launch on a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday May 29, Kazakh time.
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JSC2013-E-026155 (April 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 36/37.
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Quarantined Expedition 32 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko answers reporters questions from behind glass during a prelaunch press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel on Friday, July 13, 2012 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Malenchenko, NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams and JAXA Flight Engineer Akihiko Hoshide is scheduled for 8:40 a.m. local time on Sunday, July 15.
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jsc2018e038855 (Jan. 22, 2018) --- European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Alexander Gerst is pictured in a Sokol launch and entry suit at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Gerst launched to the International Space Station as an Expedition 56-57 crew member.
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Yuri's Night 2009 held at the California Acaemy of Sciences in San Francisco, California Right is Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, astronaut Leland Melvin, associate administrator of NASA Education, talks to agency social media followers during the second day of NASA Social activities revolving around NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, mission. The probes are set to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance, or ULA, Atlas V rocket from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. About 40 followers were selected to participate in RBSP's prelaunch and launch activities.The RBSP mission will help us understand the suns influence on Earth and near-Earth space by studying the Earths radiation belts on various scales of space and time. RBSP will begin its mission of exploration of Earths Van Allen radiation belts and the extremes of space weather.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The crew of mission STS-115 stop to talk to the media after arriving at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility to prepare for a second launch attempt on Sept. 6 to the International Space Station. Seen here is Mission Specialist Steven MacLean, who will be making his second flight on the shuttle. MacLean is with the Canadian Space Agency. Mission managers cancelled Atlantis' first launch campaign due to a lightning strike at the pad and the passage of Tropical Storm Ernesto along Florida's east coast. The mission will deliver and install the 17-and-a-half-ton P3/P4 truss segment to the port side of the integrated truss system on the orbital outpost. The truss includes a new set of photovoltaic solar arrays. When unfurled to their full length of 240 feet, the arrays will provide additional power for the station in preparation for the delivery of international science modules over the next two years. STS-115 is expected to last 11 days and incl
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JSC2010-E-045317 (12 Jan. 2010) --- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli, ISS flight engineer.
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NASAs SpaceX Crew-2 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, speaks to students during a visit to Arlington Science Focus Elementary School, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Arlington, Virginia.
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JSC2000-04608 (30 May 2000) --- Astronaut James D. Halsell, Jr., mission commander, speaks to a crowd at the crew-welcoming ceremony at Ellington Field on the day following the completion of the STS-101 mission.
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Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson is seen during a press conference ahead of the Boeing Orbital Flight Test mission, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Ferguson and NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Michael Fincke are assigned to fly on Boeings Crew Flight Test. The uncrewed Orbital Flight Test will be Starliners maiden mission to the International Space Station for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for a 6:36 a.m. EST launch on Dec. 20, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities.
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NASA's Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, also a member of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, honored Ellen Ochoa and Michael Foale during ceremonies on May 19, 2017. The activity took place in the Space Shuttle Atlantis facility at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
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S121-E-06162 (9 July 2006) --- Astronaut Steven W. Lindsey, STS-121 commander, photographed on the middeck of the Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station.
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Expedition 60 astronaut Nick Hague of NASA attends a Karaganda Airport welcome ceremony in Kazakhstan on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Expedition 60 crewmembers Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Hague are returning after 203 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 59 and 60 crews onboard the International Space Station. Almansoori logged 8 days in space during his first flight as an astronaut.
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JSC2016e105226 (08/16/2016) --- Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Expedition 49 to the International Space Station.
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JSC2010-E-014652 (16 Nov. 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, Expedition 28/29 flight engineer, attired in a Russian Sokol launch and entry suit, takes a break from training in Star City, Russia to pose for a portrait.
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NASA Briefing with Artemis II Crew. Bob Cabana, NASA associate administrator, participates in a news conference on Aug. 8, 2023, at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA senior leadership and the Artemis II crew discussed the mission - the first with astronauts under Artemis, which will send NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen around the Moon and back. Artemis II is the first crewed mission on NASAs path to establishing a long-term lunar presence for science and exploration under Artemis and is the first mission with astronauts to the Moon.
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Paolo Nespoli (ESA) - Backup EXP 24 Flight Engineer
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JSC2011-E-215053 (15 Aug. 2011) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Aki Hoshide, Expedition 30 backup crew member, attired in a Russian Sokol launch and entry suit, takes a break from training in Star City, Russia to pose for a portrait.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - - Sami Asmar, GRAIL deputy project scientist, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, participates in the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission science briefing in the NASA Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. GRAIL is scheduled to launch Sept. 8 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.GRAIL will fly twin spacecraft in tandem around the moon to precisely measure and map variations in the moon's gravitational field. The mission will provide the most accurate global gravity field to date for any planet, including Earth. This detailed information will reveal differences in the density of the moon's crust and mantle and will help answer fundamental questions about the moon's internal structure, thermal evolution, and history of collisions with asteroids. The aim is to map the moon's gravity field so completely that future moon vehicles can safely navigate anywher
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Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) answers a question during a press conference, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 54 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 17.
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Portrait of Robin "Rob" Lee of the Office of Diversity & Equal Opp. Branch, in front of NASA Langley's "Meatball." The portrait was done for Thalia Patrinos at NASA Headquarters as part of "Faces of NASA" project. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, masks were mandated by Governor Northam in Virginia in public settings. "Well, little did I know, even at a young age, he instilled in me the importance of seeing people for people. And being able to help people and being able to meet them in their time of need. And that carried me throughout my entire life. Even still today.” — Robin Lee, Director of Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, Langley Research Center
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JSC2007-E-19403 (19 March 2007) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, flight engineer
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JSC2014E088150 (10/23/2014) --- Official Photograph of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Astronaut Kimiya Yui, Flight Engineer on the International Space Station with Expedition 44.
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JSC2007-E-45198 (July 2007) --- Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, attired in a Russian Sokol launch and entry suit, takes a break from training in Star City, Russia to pose for a portrait.
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Expedition 60 cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos attends a Karaganda Airport welcome ceremony in Kazakhstan on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Expedition 60 crewmembers Ovchinin and Nick Hague of NASA are returning after 203 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 59 and 60 crews onboard the International Space Station. Almansoori logged 8 days in space during his first flight as an astronaut.
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NASA astronaut Victor Glover talks with school students in person and via live stream during an educational event, Thursday, April 28, 2022, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. Glover most recently served as pilot and second-in-command on the Crew-1 SpaceX Crew Dragon, named Resilience, which landed after a long duration mission aboard the International Space Station, May 2, 2021.
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jsc2017e039446 (04/03/2017) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 51 crewmember Jack Fischer of NASA answers a reporters question April 3 during a traditional news conference. Fischer and Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo: NASA/Rob Navias.
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1st Lt. Daniel Smith, Weather Officer, 30th Space Wing, Vandenberg Air Force Base, is seen during a NASA Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) prelaunch briefing, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The ICESat-2 mission will measure the changing height of Earth's ice.