Astronaut Training Sessions

Images of astronauts training in ISS mockups, focusing on routine operations and emergency scenarios. The mood is professional, with tech equipment and teamwork evident.

DATE: 7-3-13LOCATION: Bldg 9NW - ISS Mockups.SUBJECT: Expedition 36S crew members, Kotov, Ryazansky and Hopkins and 37S crew (Wakata, Tyurin, Mastracchio) during Emergency Scenarios Training.

PHOTO DATE: 09-15-09LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupSUBJECT: STS-131 & Expedition 22 crew during ISS/STS Emergency Scene Training

Date: 12/09/13Location: NBL - High Bay (MU-S)Subject: Soyuz 45 crew members, Tim Kopra and ESA astronaut Tim Peake during ISS EVA Maintenance 1 - 1G training

KOSTA VARNAVAS/ES33, AND Dr. HERB SIMS/ES63, TESTING THE PULSAR , (PROGRAMMABLE ULTRA LOWPOWER SYSTEM ADAPTABLE RADIO), IN THE SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO LAB, NSSTC

JSC2010-E-009599 (13 Jan. 2010) --- NASA astronauts Gregory H. Johnson (left), STS-134 pilot; and Michael Fincke, mission specialist, participate in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASAs Johnson Space Center.

DATE: 1-7-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - POGO StandSUBJECT: Expedition 44 astronaut Kjell Lindgren during ISS EVA POGO 1 training.

JSC2012-E-106562 (20 July 2012) --- NASA astronaut Kevin Ford (second right), Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander; along with Russian cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin (left) and Oleg Novitskiy, both Expedition 33/34 flight engineers, participate in a routine operations training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Crew instructor Clinton Balmain (right) assisted the crew members.

STS-130 crew and Expedition 22 crew member T.J. Creamer during module outfitting training. Photo Date: October 7, 2009. Location: Building 9NW - SSMTF.

PHOTO DATE: 04-02-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS AirlockSUBJECT: STS-132 crew during ISS EVA TOOL CONFIGURATION with instructor Lisa Shore.

Expedition 36/37 crew members Luca Parmitano and Karen Nyberg during SAFER training in the VR Lab

PHOTO DATE: 10-01-10LOCATION: Bldg. 9 - VR LabSUBJECT: STS-133 crew during MSS/EVAA TEAM training in Virtual Reality Lab with instructor Jared OlsonWORK ORDER: 02946-BS__VRLAB_10-01-10

PHOTO DATE: 05-21-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Soyuz 38 (Expedition 39/40) crew member Steve Swanson training on Nikon camera equipment and lenses for Internal Photo Skills inside ISS mockups with instructor Paul Reichert

JSC2010-E-183512 (3 Nov. 2010) --- STS-135 crew members participate in an EVA Thermal Protection System (TPS) overview training session in the TPS/ Precision Air Bearing Facility in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Pictured from the left are NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson, commander; Rex Walheim, mission specialist; Doug Hurley, pilot; and Sandy Magnus, mission specialist. John Ray (right) assisted the crew members. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program.

Expedition 36 crew during Emergency Scenarios training. Soyuz 34 crew (Cassidy, Vinogradov, Misurkin) and Soyuz 35 crew (Yurchikhin, Parmitano, Nyberg). Photo Date: January 15, 2013. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

PHOTO DATE: 01-28-10LOCATION: Bldg. 9 - VR Lab SUBJECT: STS-132 crew during their MSS/SIMP EVA3 OPS 4 training with Expedition 23 crew member Tracy Caldwell Dyson. Instructor is Madhurita Sengupta.

PHOTO DATE: 5-9-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: ISS Routine Ops training session with Butch Wilmore from Soyuz 40, Terry Virts and Samantha Cristoforetti from Soyuz 41 and Scott Kelly from Soyuz 42.

Date:08-19-2014Location:B9NW Node 1Subject:Photograph ESA Astronaut Andreas Mogensen on behalf of ESA during INT TV OPS USER training with instructor Katrina Willoughby. Post on IO/ISS Missions/ISS-045/Preflight. Notify Mike Gentry, Kathy Strawn, Jody Russell, Kylie Clem, Kelly Humphries, Jay Bolden, Jason Roberts, Mark Garcia, Dylan Mathis, Carlos Fontanot, Andreas Mogensen, Katrina Willoughby and Melanie Cowan when ready.Photog: David DeHoyos

PHOTO DATE: 10-30-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - POGO Stand SUBJECT: Expedition 43 commander and crew member Terry Virts during his ISS EVA POGO 1 training on the POGO stand with instructors Faruq Sabur and Alexandros Kanelakos.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Mission STS-120 Mission Specialists Douglas Wheelock and Paolo Nespoli (with the European Space Agency) familiarize themselves with equipment inside the Space Station Processing Facility during a visit to Kennedy Space Center. Other crew members include Commander Pam Melroy, Pilot George Zamka and Mission Specialists Scott Parazynski, Stephanie Wilson, Daniel Tani and Clayton Anderson. Mission STS-120 will deliver the Node 2 "Harmony" connecting module to the station. During the mission, Tani and Anderson will transfer to the station and remain as flight engineers for Expedition 15. The mission is tentatively scheduled for August of this year.

STS-133 crew during ISS SMALL TOOLS training with instructor Jake Delap. Photo Date: March 25, 2010. Location: NBL - Room 1300A.

PHOTO DATE: 07-13-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, US Lab MockupSUBJECT: Expedition 28 crew membersMike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa, Sergei Volkov during ACLS MEG I training.

Expedition 43 Emergency Scenarios training in ISS mockups with Soyuz 41(Anton Shkaplerov, Samantha Cristoforetti, Terry Virts) and Soyuz 42 (Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, Scott Kelly). Photo Date: July 10, 2014. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

The team that tested the umbilical lines and accessories that will connect from the mobile launcher to NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission-1 hold a banner signing event July 24, 2018, to mark completion of testing at the Launch Equipment Test Facility (LETF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Attending the event is Scott Colloredo, at right, deputy director of Engineering. A total of 21 umbilicals and launch accessories were tested on various simulators at the LETF before they were transferred to the mobile launcher for installation.

Date: 05-13-2022Loction: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSubject: Crew-5 astronauts Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, Koichi Wakata and 68S crew members Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, Anna Kikina and Frank Rubio in Emergency Scenarios Joint Crew training in SVMFPhotographer: James Blair

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold, Portrait, Friday, June 28, 2019 at Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, LA.

PHOTO DATE: 05-18-10LOCATION: Bldg 5 , SSTFSUBJECT: STS-133 crew during S2 CBM/ROBO INSTALL 31178 training with instructor Patricia Clemandot in the space station training facility in building 5 south.

NASA astronaut Doug Hurley, along with teams from NASA and SpaceX, rehearse crew extraction from SpaceXs Crew Dragon, which will be used to carry humans to the International Space Station, on August 13, 2019 at the Trident Basin in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Using the Go Searcher ship SpaceX uses to recover their spacecraft after splashdown and a mock-up of the Crew Dragon, the teams worked through the steps necessary to get NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken out of the Dragon and back to dry land. Hurley and Behnken will fly to the space station aboard the Crew Dragon for the SpaceX Demo-2 mission.

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold, Portrait, Friday, June 28, 2019 at Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, LA.

NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, left, visits the Combustion Lab at Marshall Space Flight Center on March 25, where Michael Allison shares the advancements being made in additive manufacturing of rocket engine parts at Marshall. Allison leads the assembly and integration lead for the MC2 engine model, shown here, which is an additively manufactured liquid engine designed and developed at Marshall. During his tour of the center, Morhard also saw the work being done by Marshall to advance deep space exploration at the Liquid Hydrogen Test Stand, Deep Space Habitat, Payload Operations Integration Center and the Systems Integration Lab.

DATE: 3-22-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 34 crew Chris Hadfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn during emergency scenarios training in the ISS mockups with instructor Kathryn Bolt

PHOTO DATE: 09-28-09LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: STS-129 crew during trans hands-on review in the space station mockups.

Expedition 25/26 emergency scenario training. Photo Date: July 14, 2010. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

NASA astronaut Rex Walheim laughs with his crewmates as STS-135 commander Chris Ferguson gets a refresher on the use of the toilet on the International Space Station as the crew trains at the Johnson Space Center on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, in Houston. The day's training marked the crew's final scheduled sessions in JSC Bldg. 9, the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF). ( NASA Photo / Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool )

DATE: 9-24-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups.SUBJECT: Expedition 48 crew members (Soyuz 46) Aleksey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeff Williams during Routine Ops training in Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facilities (SVMTF) ISS mockups with instructor John Ray.

JSC2011-E-024064 (4 March 2011) --- NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus, STS-135 mission specialist, prepares for an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit fit check in the Space Station Airlock Test Article (SSATA) in the Crew Systems Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center. NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson (right), STS-135 commander; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, Expedition 28/29 flight engineer, assisted Magnus.

DATE: 9-22-14LOCATION: Bldg 9NW - ISS Mockups. SUBJECT: Expedition 48 crew members (Soyuz 46) Aleksey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeff Williams during Emergency Scenarios Assigned 1 training in Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facilities (SVMTF) ISS mockups with instructor John Ray.

Expedition 36 & 37 crew members during Emergency Scene - 6 Crew training in ISS Mockups. Photo Date: January 15, 2013. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

Soyuz 40 (Expedition 41/42) Russian cosmonaut Yelena Serova during USOS Structure & Configuration with instuctor Josh Matthew. Photo Date: August 27, 2013. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

Ballistics Lab testing

HOUSTON - JSC2013e068344 - NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik gets into position in The Boeing Company's CST-100 spacecraft for a fit check evaluation at the company's Houston Product Support Center. Bresnik's fit check will help evaluate a crew's maneuverability in the spacecraft and test communications. Boeing's CST-100 is being designed to transport crew members or a mix of crew and cargo to low-Earth-orbit destinations. The evaluation is part of the ongoing work supporting Boeing's funded Space Act Agreement with NASA's Commercial Crew Program, or CCP, during the agency's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability, or CCiCap, initiative. CCiCap is intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers.

PHOTO DATE: 04-02-10LOCATION: NBLSUBJECT: STS-133 crew members Tim Kopra and Benjamin Drew during their STS-133 ULF5 EVA SKILLS training.

JSC2012-E-226815 (24 Oct. 2012) --- In the simulation control area, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata (left), Expedition 38 flight engineer and Expedition 39 commander; and NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38/39 flight engineer, prepare for a spacewalk training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Wakata and Mastracchio are wearing liquid cooling and ventilation garments that complement the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit.

ISS047e021582 (03/26/2016) --- Cygnus capture on 26 March 2016. Expedition 47 robotic arm operator NASA astronaut Tim Kopra of NASA commanded the International Space Stations Canadarm2 robotic arm to capture and dock the Cygnus spacecraft. He was assisted by ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Tim Peake.

. SpaceX USCV-7 (Crew 7)Imagery provided by SpaceX

NASA, Department of Defense personnel from Detachment 3 out of Patrick Air Force Base, and the Mobile Diving Salvage Unit based in San Diego conduct a testing session at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston on Dec. 5, 2012 to evaluate procedures, mockups, and prototype hardware used to train personnel in recovery of the Orion crew module and the forward bay cover for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

DATE: 7-3-13LOCATION: Bldg 9NW - ISS Mockups.SUBJECT: Expedition 36S crew members, Kotov, Ryazansky and Hopkins and 37S crew (Wakata, Tyurin, Mastracchio) during Emergency Scenarios Training.

NASA Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, second left, listens as Chief Science Officer, OrbitBeyond, Jon Morse, speaks about their lunar lander, Friday, May 31, 2019, at Goddard Space Flight Center in Md. Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and OrbitBeyond have been selected to provide the first lunar landers for the Artemis program's lunar surface exploration.

Astronaut candidate Kayla Barron examines a heat-resistant tile sample inside the Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a tour on Feb. 12, 2019. Barron also viewed additional spaceflight hardware being processed for Exploration Mission-1 and Exploration Mission-2.

John Honeycutt and Mark White compare model of SLS test stand with actual test stand

Exercise Countermeasures Lab, ECL

JSC2010-E-183252 (4 Nov. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson, STS-135 commander, attired in a training version of his shuttle launch and entry suit, participates in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program.

Date:11-08-12Location: Bldg 5 South, SSMTFSubject: Expedition 41/42 (Soyuz 40) Russian cosmonaut Yelena (Elena) Serova during Space Station Training Facility (SSTF) Familiarization with instructor Josh Matthew

JSC2012-E-032759 (6 March 2012) --- Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Expedition 34/35 flight engineer, participates in an extravehicular activity (EVA) preparation and post EVA training session in an International Space Station mock-up/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

DATE: 3-22-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 34 crew Chris Hadfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn during emergency scenarios training in the ISS mockups with instructor Kathryn Bolt

PHOTO DATE: 07-13-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 26 crew members Cady Coleman and Dmitri Kondratyev during their docking timeline training.

Expedition 43 Emergency Scenarios training in ISS mockups with Soyuz 41(Anton Shkaplerov, Samantha Cristoforetti, Terry Virts) and Soyuz 42 (Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, Scott Kelly). Photo Date: July 10, 2014. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

DATE: 5-16-14. LOCATION: Bldg. 16N, Room 1040. SUBJECT: Expedition 47 (Soyuz 45) crew members Tim Kopra and Timothy Peake during FF T&C/R ADV2 training in the SES Alpha Cupola.

PHOTO DATE: 02-09-10LOCATION:Bldg. 17, Room 1070 Food Lab SUBJECT: STS-133 Food Tasting

DATE: 5-21-13LOCATION: NBL - Pool TopsideSUBJECT: Mike Hopkins during INCR-37 ISS EVA Maintenance 95027 run with astronaut Kathleen Rubins.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach (second from left) explains recovery and reconstruction efforts of Columbia to the Executive Director of NASDA Koji Yamamoto (fourth from left) and others visiting the Columbia Debris Hangar. Mr. Yamamoto is at KSC for a welcome ceremony involving the arrival of the newest Space Station module, the Japanese Experiment Module/pressurized module.

. jsc2023e029956 (May 22, 2023) --- NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps and Matthew Dominick, SpaceX Crew-8 Mission Specialist and Commander respectively, train together inside the International Space Station's mockup facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

. SpaceX USCV-7 (Crew 7)Imagery provided by SpaceX

PHOTO DATE: 01-17-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 40 6-person crew emergency scenarios. Crewmembers: 38S/Swanson, Skvortsov and Artemiev, along with 39S/Suraev, Wiseman and Gerst.

Date: 03-06-13Location: Bldg 9, Rm 1113Subjet: Expedition 38/39 JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata during P Robonaut Taskboard training with Leah Pike and Michael Bentson

Philippe Étienne, French Ambassador to the U.S. speaks to Joseph Williams about virtual reality viewers at the NASA exhibit during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington.

JSC2011-E-028160 (23 March 2011) --- NASA astronauts Greg H. Johnson (right), STS-134 pilot; and Greg Chamitoff, mission specialist, are pictured during an exercise in the systems engineering simulator in the Avionics Systems Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

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. Orion was officially transferred from the Orion Program to Exploration Ground Systems (EGS). Mike Bolger, EGS manager, stands inside the high bay with Orion in the background. 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 EGS and Jacobs teams.

DATE: 3-19-13LOCATION: Bldg. 2N, Press Conf. RoomSUBJECT: Expedition 36/37 (Soyuz 35) Press Conference with Karen Nyberg, Luca Parmitano and Fydor Yurchikin.

machine demonstration

GMRO Lab Group Photo. Groups from the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO) laboratory and the Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory (ESPL) gather for a photograph to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Swamp Works at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 13, 2023. Studies of the mechanics of materials in a launch pad environment are performed in the GMRO lab. The team also develops technologies for handling lunar and Martian regolith, including excavator technologies, pneumatic transport of soil, and magnetic handling of soil. The ESPL group performs scientific investigations to protect flight hardware and launch equipment from the phenomenon of electrostatic discharges, commonly known as sparks.

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