Astronaut Training Sessions

Images depict astronauts in training suits as they prepare for missions, showcasing training environments and gear used for space flights.

JSC2007-E-33312 (4 May 2007) --- Astronaut Tracy E. Caldwell, mission specialist alternate portrait
JSC2007-E-33312 (4 May 2007) --- Astronaut Tracy E. Caldwell, mission specialist alternate portrait
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NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor is seen during an interview, Friday, June 14, 2019 the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Auñón-Chancellor spent 197 days living and working onboard the orbital laboratory as part of Expeditions 56 and 57, contributing to hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science, and Earth science while there. She began her career at NASA as a flight surgeon before being selected as an astronaut in 2009.
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S120-E-007216 (29 Oct. 2007) --- Astronaut Stephanie Wilson, STS-120 mission specialist, and a model of the Harmony node float freely on the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station.
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(November 1991) --- Astronaut Roberta L. Bondar, Canadian payload specialist..
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Portrait, NASA Engineer Lindsay Aitchison, Friday, September 6, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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S120-E-007204 (29 Oct. 2007) --- A model of the Harmony node floats freely near astronaut Stephanie Wilson, STS-120 mission specialist, on the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station.
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(11 Sept 1992) --- Astronaut Mary E. Weber, mission specialist.
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S92-40463 (July 1992) --- Astronaut Mae C. Jemison, M.D., mission specialist.
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S78-35287 (13 Jan. 1978) --- Astronaut Shannon W. Lucid, mission specialist.
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S84-44094 (13 Jan 1984) --- Payload Specialist Dr. Millie Hughes Fulford with the Veterans' Administration Hospital and the University of California at San Francisco
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NASA astronaut Nicole Mann speaks to members of the media during a press briefing May 29, 2020, near the Press Site countdown clock at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 launch. Behind her is NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren. The launch, initially scheduled for May 27, was scrubbed due to unfavorable weather conditions. The next launch attempt is Saturday, May 30. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. This will mark the first launch of astronauts from U.S. soil to the space station since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceXs final flight test, paving the way for NASA to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory. Liftoff is scheduled for 3:22 p.m. EDT
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NASAs Student Airborne Research Program invites Dr. Ann Marie Carlton, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy fellow, to fly aboard the DC-8 to measure air quality on June 23, 2022.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-107 Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla is helped suiting up for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities, which include a simulated launch countdown at the pad. STS-107 is a mission devoted to research and will include more than 80 experiments that will study Earth and space science, advanced technology development, and astronaut health and safety. Launch is planned for Jan. 16, 2003, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. EST aboard Space Shuttle Columbia..
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Russian backup Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko speaks during a press conference, Monday, June 6, 2011, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission is set to launch on Tuesday, June 8, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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Cassie Hilditch, a guest speaker from the San Jose State University Research Foundation, presents information on fatigue management inside NASA Kennedy Space Centers Training Auditorium during the centers annual Safety and Health Days on March 4, 2020. Taking place March 2 through March 6, Safety and Health Days provides Kennedy employees with a variety of presentations to attend - all of which focus on how to maintain a safe and healthy workforce.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Seated in the cockpit of the shuttle training aircraft, or STA, STS-120 Commander Pamela Melroy is eager to begin landing practice on NASA's Shuttle Landing Facility runway. A modified Grumman American Aviation-built Gulf Stream II jet, the STA simulates an orbiter's cockpit, motion and visual cues and handling qualities. In flight, the STA duplicates the orbiter's atmospheric descent trajectory from approximately 35,000 feet altitude to landing on a runway. Melroy and other crew members are at Kennedy Space Center to take part in the terminal countdown demonstration test, which also includes a simulated launch countdown. Mission STS-120 is targeted for Oct. 23.
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S99-E-5480 (16 February 2000) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, sports a pair of sunglasses while looking at the bright Earth aboardEndeavour's flight deck.
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STS-83 Payload Commander Janice E. Voss arrives at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility aboard a T-38 prior to Columbia's launch.
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S121-E-07217 (13 July 2006) --- Astronauts Lisa M. Nowak (left) and Stephanie D. Wilson, STS-121 mission specialists, pose for a photo on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station.
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Rachel Kraft, NASA Communications, moderates a prelaunch media briefing following a mission management team meeting for Artemis I on Sept. 1, 2022, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Artemis I is scheduled to launch at 2:17 p.m. EDT on Sept. 3, from Kennedys Launch Complex 39B. Launch was waved off on Aug. 29 due to an issue during tanking. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate NASAs capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.
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jsc2018e067953 (Aug. 2, 2018) --- NASA astronauts Josh Cassada (left) and Suni Williams pose for a portrait in front of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner Commercial Crew vehicle mock up at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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Expedition 62 astronaut Jessica Meir is seen talking on the satellite phone outside the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft after she landed with NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Friday, April 17, 2020. Meir and Skripochka returned after 205 days in space, and Morgan after 272 days in space. All three served as Expedition 60-61-62 crew members onboard the International Space Station.
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jsc2017e114888 (09-06-17) --- During water survival training in 2017 at NASA Johnson Space Centers Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, NASA astronaut candidate Jasmin Moghbeli readies into training gear.
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Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist.
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Bettina Inclan, NASA Headquarters, moderates a Mars 2020 prelaunch news briefing at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 27, 2020. The Mars Perseverance rover is scheduled to launch on July 30, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rover is part of NASAs Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
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Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is seen in quarantine, behind glass, 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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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - During a pause in their prelaunch activities at the pad, the STS-121 crew talk to the media. They are standing in the landing area of the slidewire baskets. With the microphone is Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson. The crew is at Kennedy for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities. Over several days, the crew will practice emergency egress from the pad and suit up in their orange flight suits for the simulated countdown to launch. Space Shuttle Discovery is designated to launch July 1 on mission STS-121. It will carry supplies to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 64 crew member Kate Rubins of NASA plays a game of chess, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Rubins and Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Ruscosmos are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft on October 14.
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Carolyn Mizell, chief of the Research and Technology Management Office at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is photographed at the multiuser spaceports headquarters building on June 30, 2022. Mizell has worked in a wide variety of roles in over 30 years at Kennedy, including KSC Deputy Chief Technologist, chair of the Research and Technology Management Board, space shuttle instrumentation system engineer, lead for Design Engineering Hazardous Gas Detection and Optical Instrumentation Laboratories, and project manager of multiple research and development projects.
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Official Astronaut Portrait of Naoko Yamazaki (JAXA) in ACES suit photo. Photo Date: November 2, 2009. Location: Building 8, Room 272 - Photo Studio.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 Mission Specialist Nicole Stott arrives on the Shuttle Landing Facility runway aboard a T-38 jet. In the days leading up to their launch to the International Space Station, Stott and her crew members will check the fit of their launch-and-entry suits, review launch-day procedures, receive weather briefings and remain medically quarantined to prevent sickness. This will be the second launch attempt for Discovery's crew, following a scrub in November 2010 due to a hydrogen gas leak at the ground umbilical carrier plate (GUCP) as well as modifications to the external fuel tank's intertank support beams, called stringers.Scheduled to lift off Feb. 24 at 4:50 p.m. EST, Discovery and its crew will deliver the Permanent Multipurpose Module, packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, to the orbiting outpost.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A model of the Hubble Space Telescope is one of the exhibits during Space Congress Week, held April 29-May 2, 2003, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Space Congress is an international conference that gathers attendees from the scientific community, the space industry workforce, educators and local supporting industries. This years event commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy Space Center and the Centennial of Flight. The theme for the Space Congress was “Linking the Past to the Future: A Celebration of Space.”
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. - A guest at the Tom Joyner Family Reunion is photographed with a Commercial Crew Program exhibit during the five-day event. Thousands of visitors spoke with agency representatives who explained the agencys efforts with CCP, the International Space Station, Ground Systems Development and Operations Program, as well as the Launch Services Program.The Tom Joyner Family Reunion is designed to present uplifting programs, entertainment and information about growing, diverse communities. An annual event of the nationally-syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show, the many exhibits included NASA's participation focusing on encouraging young people to consider studies and careers in STEM -- science, technology, engineering and math. NASA's Education Division promoted the benefits of math and scientific learning along with career opportunities offered by the space agency. The activities took place at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee, Florida, during the Labor Day weekend.
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DATE: 9-3-14LOCATION: NBL - MU-176SUBJECT: ESA Astronaut Tim Peaks and US Astronaut Tim Kopra during ISS EVA MAINT 3 1G training with instructor Sandy Moore.