Astronaut Training Sessions

Images of astronauts in training for space missions, featuring spacesuits and equipment in simulated environments.

PHOTO DATE: 20 July 2012LOCATION: Bldg. 7, SSATA ChamberSUBJECT: Expedition 34/35 astronaut Tom Marshburn during SSATA EMU training and certification - Dry Run. Test Directors Gretchen Thomas, Christina Anchondo and Joel Maganza. STB-ST-962
PHOTO DATE: 20 July 2012LOCATION: Bldg. 7, SSATA ChamberSUBJECT: Expedition 34/35 astronaut Tom Marshburn during SSATA EMU training and certification - Dry Run. Test Directors Gretchen Thomas, Christina Anchondo and Joel Maganza. STB-ST-962
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Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly has his Russian sokol suit pressure checked during the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft fit check with Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and, Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Sunday, March 15, 2015 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio are preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their 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.
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PHOTO DATE: 03-23-09LOCATION: SCTF, NBLSUBJECT: Preflight coverage of STS-128 crew members Danny Olivas and Christer Fuglesang during STS-128 17A TPS Ops 91027
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Expedition 60 crewmember Nick Hague of NASA is seen outside the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft after he landed with fellow crewmember Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and visiting astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Hague and Ovchinin 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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Expedition 41 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, left, and Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA, right, are seen as they talk with family members after having their Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for their launch onboard the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft with Samokutyaev, Wilmore, and Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos is scheduled to launch at 2:25 a.m. Kazakhstan time on Friday, Sept. 26.
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NASA astronaut Christina Koch is seen outside the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft after she, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, and ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano landed in a remote area 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.
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NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is seen outside the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft after he landed with Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Vande Hei and Dubrov are returning to Earth after logging 355 days in space as members of Expeditions 64-66 aboard the International Space Station. For Vande Hei, his mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in history. Shkaplerov is returning after 176 days in space, serving as a Flight Engineer for Expedition 65 and commander of Expedition 66.
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Expedition 11 Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer John Phillips, right, talks with his backup Dan Tani during suit up at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, April 15, 2005, prior to launch aboard a Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft for a two-day trip to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Joe Acaba waits to have his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for his launch onboard the Soyuz TMA-04M on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft with Acaba, Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin onboard, launched at 9:01 a.m. Kazakhstan time on Tuesday, May 15.
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jsc2018e007777 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 55 crewmember Drew Feustel of NASA listens to a reporters question Feb. 21 during the crews final day of qualification exams. Feustel, Ricky Arnold of NASA and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos will launch March 21 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station...Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center/Andrey Shelepin and Irina Spektor .
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ISS010-E-15373 (1 February 2005) --- Astronaut Leroy Chiao, Expedition 10 commander and Space Station science officer, stands in the transfer compartment of the Zvezda Service Module. Chiao is wearing a Russian Sokol suit.
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S116-E-05925 (12 Dec. 2006) --- As the mission's first spacewalk draws to a close, astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr., STS-116 mission specialist, smiles for the camera in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station.
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ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is seen outside the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft after he landed with NASA astronaut Christina Koch and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov in a remote area 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.
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JSC2012-E-106556 (20 July 2012) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, Expedition 33/34 flight engineer, is pictured during a routine operations training session in an International Space Station mock-up/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
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ISS015-E-20221 (28 July 2007) --- Astronaut Clay Anderson, Expedition 15 flight engineer, poses for a photo as he floats in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
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Edward T. Lu, Expedition 7 NASA International Space Station Science Officer and Flight Engineer, wearing his Russian Sokol suit, is pictured prior to his launch with Commander Yuri I. Malenchenko aboard the Soyuz rocket at 9:53 am from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Saturday, April 26, 2003.
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Expedition 69 Soyuz Landing. Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio holds a matryoshka doll he was gifted outside the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft after he landed with Roscosmos cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Sergey Prokopyev, in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The trio are returning to Earth after logging 371 days in space as members of Expeditions 68-69 aboard the International Space Station. For Rubio, his mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in history.
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Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) is helped out of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft just minutes after he, Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. Auñón-Chancellor, Gerst, and Prokopyev are returning after 197 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 56 and 57 crews onboard the International Space Station.
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On Monday, March 30, 2020 at a SpaceX processing facility on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, SpaceX successfully completed a fully integrated test of critical crew flight hardware ahead of Crew Dragons second demonstration mission to the International Space Station for NASA's Commercial Crew Program; the first flight test with astronauts onboard the spacecraft. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley participated in the test, which included flight suit leak checks, spacecraft sound verification, display panel and cargo bin inspections, seat hardware rotations, and more.
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PHOTO DATE: 24 June 2010, LOCATION: Bldg. 7 - SSATA Chamber, SUBJECT: STB-SS-1914 - SSATA Crew Training for STS-133 crew member Benjamin A. Drew. ,
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iss060e013920 (July 23, 2019) --- Expedition 60 Flight Engineer Drew Morgan of NASA is pictured inside the International Space Station's "window to the world," the seven-windowed Cupola. At the time this photograph was taken, the orbiting lab was flying 261 miles above the Caspian Sea.
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JSC2008-E-118364 (25 Sept. 2008) --- Astronaut Michael Good (left), STS-125 mission specialist, and United Space Alliance suit technician Beau Webb discuss training activities in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Good is wearing a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit.
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JSC2011-E-054033 (13 June 2011) --- NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus, STS-135 mission specialist, attired in a training version of her Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, prepares for a spacewalk training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Astronaut Chris Ferguson, commander, assisted Magnus.
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Tim Kopra of NASA talks on a satellite phone outside the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft just minutes after he and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Tim Peake of the European Space Agency landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, June 18, 2016. Kopra, Peake, and Malenchenko are returning after six months in space where they served as members of the Expedition 46 and 47 crews onboard the International Space Station.
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Date: 03-14-12Location: NBLSubject: Expedition 35 (Soyuz 33S) crew members Tom Marshburn and Chris Hadfield during EVA training at the NBL.
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European Astronaut Tim Peake of ESA during ISS EVA MAINT 3 NBL Training with Astronaut Tim Kopra and instructor Sandy Moore. Photo Date: September 10, 2014. Location: NBL - Pool Topside.
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JSC2008-E-122388 (9 Oct. 2008) --- Astronaut Dave Wolf, STS-127 mission specialist, gets help in the donning of a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit in preparation for a training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center.
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Date: 12-10-13Location: Bldg7, SSATASubject: SSATA EMU crew training and certification for Expedition 40/41 ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst - DRY RUN
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nhq201704100005 (April 10, 2017) --- Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos rests in a chair outside the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft just minutes after he, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Monday, April 10, 2017 (Kazakh time). Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, and Borisenko are returning after 173 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 49 and 50 crews onboard the International Space Station.
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NASA astronaut Shannon Walker is helped out of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship after she, NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, Sunday, May 2, 2021. NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 mission was the first crew rotation flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program.
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S66-63540 (12 Nov. 1966) --- Astronaut James A. Lovell is photographed inside his Gemini spacecraft during the Gemini-12 mission. Astronaut Edwin Aldrin is seen in the background and to the left.
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Buzz Aldrin Aboard the Eagle Lunar Module During Apollo 11 Mission
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April 10, 2003. Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Building 254, Soyuz Integration Facility. Astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer for Expedition Seven dons his Russian Sokol suit for the leak check and Soyuz inspection, seat liner check.
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JSC2000-E-27084 (20 October 2000) --- Expedition 1 Soyuz commander Yuri P. Gidzenko, wearing a Sokol suit, gets help with his suit before entering the Soyuz spacecraft at Baikonur. Out of frame are Expedition 1 commander William M. (Bill) Shepherd and flight engineer Sergei K. Krikalev.
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INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS RICK MASTRACCHIO, LEFT, AND MICHAEL HOPKINS DISCUSS THEIR WORK ON THE SPACE STATION DURING EXPEDITIONS 37, 38, AND 39 AT A NEWS CONFERENCE AT NASA'S MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER ON JULY 29
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Expedition 27 Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli smiles shortly after he and Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineer Cady Coleman landed in their Soyuz TMA-20 southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. NASA Astronaut Coleman, Russian Cosmonaut Kondratyev and Italian Astronaut Nespoli are returning from more than five months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 26 and 27 crews.
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AS17-163-24148 (7-19 Dec. 1972) --- Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan (left) and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Jack Schmitt are photographed by the third crew man aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft during the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program. Astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, took this picture. Cernan was the mission commander. Schmitt served as the lunar module pilot.
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ISS016-E-007420 (30 Oct. 2007) --- Attired in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, astronaut Scott Parazynski, STS-120 mission specialist, prepares for the mission's third session of extravehicular activity (EVA) in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the station.
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JSC2001-01439 (17 May 2001) --- Astronaut Soichi Noguchi, STS-114 mission specialist, attired in a training version of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) space suit, is about to begin a training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Noguchi represents Japan’s National Space Development Agency (NASDA).
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JSC2003-E-31752 (31 Jan. 2003) --- Astronaut Christer Fuglesang, mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA)
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S132-E-008995 (21 May 2010) --- NASA astronaut Piers Sellers has been into space before the current STS-132 mission of space shuttle Atlantis. But this flight's visit to the International Space Station has afforded the mission specialist his first look at the Cupola and his first looks from the seven-windowed turret-like module on the orbital outpost. This photo was taken inside the Cupola while two of Sellers' crewmates were finishing STS-132's third and final session of extravehicular activity.
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Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan -- Astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer for Expedition Seven, smiles for a photo during the bus ride to the launch pad. Lu and fellow crew member Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, commander, were launched onboard a Soyuz rocket at 9:53 a.m. from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
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Expedition 36 Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) rest in a chair after he and, Commander Pavel Vinogradov of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA landed their Soyuz TMA-08M capsule in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy returned to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station.
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jsc2013e007948 (Jan. 25, 2013) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano poses for his official portrait in a U.S. spacesuit at NASA's Johnson Space Center. A patch bearing the flag of his home country of Italy is attached to the spacesuit. The ESA and Italian flags are also in the left background.
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Spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates waits to have his Sokol suit pressure checked a few hours ahead of his launch on a Soyuz rocket with Expedition 61 crewmembers Jessica Meir of NASA and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Meir, Skripochka, and Almansoori will launch on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station.
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Orion is revealed for one of the final times on Jan. 14, as it is readied atop its transport pallet from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, along its path to the pad ahead of the Artemis I launch. Kennedy Center Director Bob Cabana speaks to workers in front of Orion in the high bay. Teams across the globe have worked tirelessly to assemble the spacecraft, which will receive a protective covering prior to departing for the Multi-Payload Processing Facility to begin ground processing by the Exploration Ground Systems and Jacobs teams.
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Date: 03-07-2022Location: SCTF, NBLSubject: 68S astronaut Frank Rubio with Victor Glover in ISS EVA Maintenance 7 training at NBLPhotographer: James Blair
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Visiting astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates is seen outside the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft after he landed with Expedition 60 crewmembers Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Hague and Ovchinin 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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ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Paolo Nespoli rests in a chair shortly after he and NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy landed in their Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. Bresnik, Nespoli and Ryazanskiy are returning after 139 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 52 and 53 crews onboard the International Space Station.