Astronauts in Space Missions

Historical images of astronauts performing various tasks inside space shuttles, including using equipment and conducting research in microgravity environments.

An astronaut inside a NASA Command Module, 1970s.Artist: NASA

ISS012-E-17057 (24 Jan. 2006) --- In the Unity node of the International Space Station, cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev, Expedition 12 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, puts finishing touches on an old Russian Orlan spacesuit that will be released by hand from the space station during a spacewalk Feb. 3, 2006. Outfitted with a special radio transmitter and other gear, the spacesuit comprises a Russian experiment called SuitSat. It will fly free from the station as a satellite in orbit for several weeks of scientific research and radio tracking, including communications by amateur radio operators. Eventually, it will enter the atmosphere and be destroyed.

ISS002-E-7605 (16 May 2001) --- Susan J. Helms, flight engineer, and Yury V. Usachev of Rosaviakosmos, mission commander, read over procedures at the computer workstation in the Zvezda Service Module during the Expedition Two mission. The image was taken with a digital still camera.

STS-50 Onboard photo Payload Commander Bornie Dunbar unloading the SACA.

STS093-321-029 (22-27 July 1999) --- Astronaut Catherine G. Coleman, mission specialist, checks the Light Weight Flexible Solar Array Hinge (LWFSAH) experiment on the mid deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia.

This is an onboard photo of space shuttle Atlantis (STS-66) crew member, French scientist Jean-Francois Clervoy working on the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applied Sciences (ATLAS-3) project. The ATLAS-3 measures the variances of the sun's solar radiation and the variability in the solar spectrum.

STS040-211-020 (5-14 June 1991) --- Vestibular experiment activities were captured onboard Columbia's Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS-1) module in this 35mm scene. Astronaut James P. Bagian, STS-40 mission specialist, is in a rotating chair while wearing an accelometer and electrodes to record head motion and horizontal and vertical eye movements during the rotations. Payload specialist Millie Hughes-Fulford, lower left, assists with the test.

STS088-363-012 (4-15 Dec. 1998) --- Astronaut Nancy J. Currie, mission specialist, looks out the aft flight deck window while operating the Space Shuttle Endeavours Remote Manipulator System (RMS). The robot arm was being used to assist Endeavours two space walking astronauts -- Jerry L. Ross and James H. Newman, mission specialists.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, STS-98 Commander Ken Cockrell conducts window inspection, checking for leaks, in the cockpit of Atlantis. He and the rest of the crew are at KSC for Crew Equipment Interface Test activities. Launch on mission STS-98 is scheduled for Jan. 18, 2001. It will be transporting the U.S. Lab, Destiny, to the International Space Station with five system racks already installed inside of the module. After delivery of electronics in the lab, electrically powered attitude control for Control Moment Gyroscopes will be activated

STS030-10-003 (4-8 May 1989) --- An overall scene of the onboard materials science project for STS-30. Seen is the fluids experiment apparatus, supported by an accompanying computer and an 8mm camcorder for its operation. Another major component of the project-- Astronaut Mary L. Cleave, who devoted a great deal of STS-30 monitoring various experiments--is out of frame.

ISS011-E-09184 (18 June 2005) --- Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, Expedition 11 commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, practices docking procedures with the TORU teleoperated control system in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station (ISS) in preparation for the docking of the Progress 18 spacecraft. Krikalev, using the Simvol-TS screen and hand controllers, could manually dock the Progress to the Station in the event of a failure of the Kurs automated docking system.

At the SPACEHAB Facility, STS-96 Mission Specialist Ellen Ochoa and Commander Kent Rominger smile for the camera during a payload Interface Verification Test (IVT) for their upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Other crew members at KSC for the IVT are Pilot Rick Husband and Mission Specialists Tamara Jernigan, Dan Barry, Julie Payette and Valery Tokarev of Russia. Mission STS-96 carries the SPACEHAB Logistics Double Module, which will have equipment to further outfit the International Space Station service module and equipment that can be off-loaded from the early U.S. assembly flights. It carries internal logistics and resupply cargo for station outfitting, plus an external Russian cargo crane to be mounted to the exterior of the Russian station segment and used to perform space walking maintenance activities. The double module stowage provides capacity of up to 10,000 lbs. with the ability to accommodate powered payloads, four external rooftop stowage locations, four

STS058-21-011 (24 Oct 1993) --- From the flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia, astronaut William S. McArthur talks to students on Earth. The mission specialist's activity was part of the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX), a frequent payload on Shuttle missions which serves to enlighten students around the world on the topic of space travel. McArthur (call letters KC5ACR) is one of three licensed amateur radio operators on the seven-member flight.

STS106-386-026 (8-20 September 2000) --- Astronaut Edward T. Lu, STS-106 mission specialist, prepares his extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) space suit for an impending space walk. Lu was about to spend a period in excess of six hours outside Atlantis along with cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (out of frame), mission specialist representing Rosaviakosmos.

ISS005-E-09725 (14 August 2002) --- Cosmonaut Valery G. Korzun, Expedition Five mission commander, attired in his thermal undergarment prior to donning a Russian Orlan spacesuit, prepares for an upcoming session of extravehicular activity (EVA) from the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station (ISS). The spacewalk is scheduled for August 16, 2002, which will be the 42nd spacewalk at the station and the 17th based out of the station. Korzun and astronaut Peggy A. Whitson, flight engineer, will install six debris panels on the Zvezda Service Module. The panels are designed to shield Zvezda from potential space debris impacts. Korzun, who represents Rosaviakosmos, is also scheduled for a spacewalk on August 22, 2002.

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Teacher-in-Space trainees on the KC-135 for Zero-G training. Sharon Christa McAuliffe experiences a few moments of weightlessness provided by the KC-135. She and Bob Mayfield, a JSC Aerospace Education Specialist, are previewing a Molecular Mixing Experiment which was designed to demonstrate differences of separation process in 1-G and Zero-G.

S93-38686 (20 July 1993) --- Wearing a training version of the partial pressure launch and entry garment, astronaut William S. McArthur prepares to rehearse emergency egress procedures for the STS-58 mission. McArthur, along with the five other NASA astronauts and a visiting payload specialist assigned to the seven-member crew, later simulated contingency evacuation procedures. Most of the training session took place in the crew compartment and full fuselage trainers of the Space Shuttle mockup and integration laboratory.

KC-135 AIRPLANE FLIGHT AT LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER DURING WEEK OF AUGUST 17 THROUGH 22 1998

KC-135 AIRPLANE FLIGHT AT LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER DURING WEEK OF AUGUST 17 THROUGH 22 1998

During a tour of KSC, Lady Margaret Thatcher (left), former Prime Minister of Britain, talks with United Space Alliance technician Mike Parrish (right) while sitting in the cockpit of the orbiter Endeavour. The orbiter, which is in the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2, is flying on mission STS-100, the ninth construction flight to the International Space Station

STS111-315-013 (5-19 June 2002) --- Astronauts Peggy A. Whitson (foreground), Expedition Five flight engineer; Philippe Perrin, STS-111 mission specialist; and cosmonaut Sergei Y. Treschev, Expedition Five flight engineer, are photographed on the middeck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Perrin represents CNES, the French Space Agency, and Treschev represent Rosaviakosmos.

STS040-211-019 (5-14 June 1991) --- Astride the bicycle ergometer, astronaut Rhea Seddon, mission specialist, breathes into the cardiovascular re-breathing unit during the exercise phase of an experiment. The investigation, In-flight Study of Cardiovascular Deconditioning (Experiment 066), was developed by Dr. Leon E. Farhi of the State University of New York in Buffalo. It focuses on the deconditioning of the heart and lungs and changes in cardiopulmonary function that occur upon return to Earth. By using non-invasive techniques of prolonged expiration and re-breathing, investigators can determine the amount of blood pumped out of the heart (cardiac output), the ease with which blood flows through all the vessels (total peripheral resistance), oxygen used and carbon dioxide released by the body, and lung function and volume changes. Measurements are made both while crew members are resting and while they pedal the exercise bicycle, as Dr. Seddon is doing here. This scene was photograp

KSC-84PC-248 (For release Aug. 27, 1984) --- The Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System (CFES) is being installed in the middeck of the Orbiter Discovery in preparation for the flight of mission STS-41D in June. The CFES, originating from the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. includes a fluid systems module, and experiment control and monitoring module, a sample storage module and a pump/accumulator package along with miscellaneous equipment stored in a middeck locker.

Apollo 11 crew, of Armstrong and Aldrin, in Bldg. 9 practicing the lunar extravehicular activity (EVA) sequences.

ISS015-E-34291 (13 Oct. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, works with an incubator in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

S95-E-5004 (29 Oct. 1998) --- Astronauts Scott E. Parazynski (left) and Pedro Duque, both STS-95 mission specialists, look toward astronaut Curtis L. Brown, commander, on Discovery's middeck during flight day one activity. Parazynski stands next to the galley, which Duque, who represents the European Space Agency (ESA), used to rehydrate the beverage container he holds. The photo was made with an electronic still camera (ESC) at 10:05:27 GMT, Oct. 29.

STS088-357-008 (4-15 Dec. 1998) --- Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev (foreground), mission specialist representing the Russian Space Agency (RSA), and astronaut James H. Newman, mission specialist, participate in video teleconference with ground controllers while working in the Russian-built FGB or Zarya Module. At the time the photo was made, Zarya was docked with the United States-built Unity (Node 1) Module, which was temporarily connected to the Space Shuttle Endeavours cargo bay. The mission specialists, along with other members of the crew, were in the process of setting up interior systems of Zarya.

(March 1982) --- Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton, STS-3 pilot, uses both hands to retrieve part of a meal from an orbital flight test food warmer in the middeck area of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Columbia.

STS081-318-031 (12-22 Jan. 1997) --- Astronauts Brent W. Jett, Jr. (left), STS-81 pilot, and John E. Blaha in the Spacehab Double Module (DM) evaluate the Crew Medical Restraint System (CMRS) carrier, onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The device is an emergency aid forerunner for hardware on the International Space Station (ISS).

S69-19981 (23 Feb. 1969) --- Fish-eye camera lens view of the interior of the Apollo Lunar Module Mission Simulator (LMMS) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) during Apollo 9 simulation training. In the foreground is astronaut James A. McDivitt, prime crew commander; and in background is astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot.

STS063-06-027 (3-11 Feb 1995) --- Seated at the commander's station on the Space Shuttle Discovery's flight deck, astronaut James D. Wetherbee, commander, was photographed by a crew mate during early phases of the STS-63 mission. A great deal of time was spent during the first few days of the mission to check a leaky thruster, which could have had a negative influence on rendezvous operations with Russia's Mir Space Station. As it turned out, all the related problems were solved and the two spacecraft succeded in achieving close proximity operations. Others onboard the Discovery were astronauts Eileen M. Collins, pilot; Bernard A. Harris Jr., payload commander; and mission specialists C. Michael Foale, Janice E. Voss, and Russian cosmonaut Vladimir G. Titov.

STS058-25-004 (29 Oct. 1993) --- On the forward flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia, astronauts John E. Blaha and Shannon W. Lucid show their glee at a milestone achieved a while earlier. The mission commander had earlier announced that Lucid's just achieved 752nd hour in space marked a space shuttle record for time spent on a mission.

STS007-11-495 (18-24 June 1983) --- Astronaut Sally K. Ride, STS-7 mission specialist, communicates with ground controllers from the mid deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger. She has just opened one of the large lockers during the operation and monitoring of the continuous flow electrophoresis system (CFES) experiment at left edge. This photograph was made with a 35mm camera.

STS061-53-001 (4 Dec 1993) --- Astronaut Richard O. Covey mans the commander's station on the Space Shuttle Endeavour during flight day 3 of the eleven-day mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Covey wears a Texas A & M University cap as a salute to members of the training staff who have A & M connections. The crew was busy on this day preparing for the approach and grapple operations with the HST.

STS003-25-228 (22-30 March 1982) --- Pilot Fullerton, wearing communication kit assembly (ASSY) mini headset (HDST) and using a screwdriver and flashlight (penlight), replaces acknowledge (ACK) key on aft flight deck mission station control panel R12L keyboard.

51F-17-011 (29 July-6 Aug 1985) --- Loren W. Acton, 51-F payload specialist, triggers a 35mm camera recording stellar imagery through the aft flight deck overhead windows aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger. The extension on the camera's lens is an image intensifier.

STS-103 Mission Specialists Jean-François Clervoy of France takes his seat inside the Space Shuttle Discovery during a practice launch countdown, part of Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) activities, while astronaut David "Doc" Brown checks him out. The TCDT also provides the crew with emergency egress training and opportunities to inspect their mission payload in the orbiter's payload bay. Other crew members taking part in the TCDT are Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr., Pilot Scott J. Kelly, and Mission Specialists Steven L. Smith, C. Michael Foale (Ph.D.), John M. Grunsfeld (Ph.D.), and Claude Nicollier of Switzerland. Clervoy and Nicollier are with the European Space Agency. STS-103 is a "call-up" mission due to the need to replace and repair portions of the Hubble Space Telescope, including the gyroscopes that allow the telescope to point at stars, galaxies and planets. The STS-103 crew will be replacing a Fine Guidance Sensor, an older computer with a new enhanced model, an

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- During Crew Equipment Interface Test activities, the STS-106 crew check equipment at SPACEHAB that they will be using on their mission. From left are Mission Specialists Yuri I. Malenchenko, Boris V. Morukov and Richard A. Mastracchio, Pilot Scott D. Altman, and Mission Specialists Daniel C. Burbank and Edward T. Lu. Malenchenko and Morukov represent the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. STS-106 is scheduled to launch Sept. 8, 2000, at 8:31 a.m. EDT from Launch Pad 39B on an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. The seven-member crew will prepare the Space Station for its first resident crew and begin outfitting the newly arrived Zvezda Service Module. They will perform support tasks on orbit, transfer supplies and prepare the Zvezda living quarters for the first long-duration crew, dubbed Expedition One,” which is due to arrive at the Station in late fall

JSC2001-02990 (5 December 2001) --- Astronaut Paul S. Lockhart, STS-111 pilot, occupies the pilots station during a mission training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Lockhart is attired in a training version of the shuttle launch and entry garment. STS-111 will be the 14th shuttle mission to visit the International Space Station (ISS).

KC-135 AIRPLANE FLIGHT AT LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER DURING WEEK OF AUGUST 17 THROUGH 22 1998

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-95 crew members get a briefing on equipment inside the SPACEHAB module from Chris Jaskolka of Boeing, second from left. Listening intently are crew members, from left, Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, representing the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA); Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson; and Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., who also is a senator from Ohio. STS-95 will feature a variety of research payloads, including the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, and experiments on space flight and the aging process. STS-95 is targeted for an Oct. 29 launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery

STS103-375-027 (19 - 27 December 1999)--- Astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy, mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA), controls Discovery's remote manipulator system (RMS) robot arm during operationswith the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

Members of the STS-100 crew, dressed in protective clothing, take a look at part of the mission payload, the Canadian robotic arm, SSRMS, from the top of a workstand in the Space Station Processing Facility. From left are Mission Specialists John L. Phillips, Umberto Guidoni and Yuri V. Lonchakov. Guidoni is with the European Space Agency and Lonchakov is with the Russian Space and Aviation Agency. The arm is 57.7 feet (17.6 meters) long when fully extended and has seven motorized joints. It is capable of handling large payloads and assisting with docking the Space Shuttle. The SSRMS is self-relocatable with a Latching End Effector, so it can be attached to complementary ports spread throughout the Stations exterior surfaces. Mission STS-100 is scheduled to launch on Space Shuttle Endeavour April 19 at 2 41 p.m. EDT from Launch Pad 39A, KSC, with a crew of seven. Other crew members are Commander Kent V. Rominger, Pilot Jeffrey S. Ashby and Mission Specialists Scott E. Parazynski and Ch

During a tour of KSC, Lady Margaret Thatcher (left), former Prime Minister of Britain, sits in the cockpit of the orbiter Endeavour and talks with United Space Alliance technician Mike Parrish (right). The orbiter, which is in the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2, is flying on mission STS-100, the ninth construction flight to the International Space Station

Views of STS-51E Crewman Senator Jake Garn during Zero-G Parabolas. 1. Senator E. J. Jake Garn - Zero-G

STS-102 Commander James D. Wetherbee watches as Mission Specialist Paul W. Richards handles some of the equipment inside the tool caddy that is carried on launches. The mission crew is at KSC for Crew Equipment Interface Test activities. STS-102 is the 8th construction flight to the International Space Station and will carry the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo. STS-102 is scheduled for launch March 1, 2001. On that flight, Leonardo will be filled with equipment and supplies to outfit the U.S. laboratory module Destiny. The mission will also be carrying the Expedition Two crew to the Space Station, replacing the Expedition One crew who will return on Shuttle Discovery

STS031-04-002 (24-29 April 1990) --- Astronauts Kathryn D. Sullivan and Bruce McCandless II, mission specialists, work together to perform one of the mission's medical experiments. The experiment is Detailed Supplementary Objective (DSO) 462, Non invasive Estimation of Central Venous Pressure During Spaceflight. Sullivan applies a gel substance to a transducer which will be placed on McCandless' jugular vein to collect the sought data. The cable links to a data recorder.

STS073-E-5003 (23 Oct. 1995) --- Astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton, STS-73 payload commander, works at the Drop Physics Module (DPM) on the portside of the science module aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in Earth orbit. Payload specialist Albert Sacco Jr. conducts an experiment at the Glovebox. This frame was exposed with the color Electronic Still Camera (ESC) assigned to the 16-day United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) mission.

STS105-314-008 (10-22 August 2001) --- Astronauts and cosmonauts representing three different crews are just about to share a meal in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). From left to right are astronauts Patrick G. Forrester and Daniel T. Barry, both STS-105 mission specialists; Frederick W. (Rick) Sturckow, STS-105 pilot; Scott J. Horowitz, STS-105 mission commander; astronaut Susan J. Helms, Expedition Two flight engineer; and cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Expedition Three flight engineer. Not pictured are Frank L. Culbertson, Jr., and Mikhail Tyurin, Expedition Three commander and flight engineer, respectively; and Yury V. Usachev and James S. Voss, Expedition Two commander and flight engineer, respectively. Dezhurov, Tyurin and Usachev represent Rosaviakosmos.

S88-E-5086 (12-11-98) --- Sergei Krikalev, mission specialist representing the Russian Space Agency (RSA), pokes his head up from inside one of the bays inside the walls on the Russian-built Zarya module. Krikalev and astronaut Nancy J. Currie replaced a faulty unit which controls the discharging of stored energy from one of Zarya's six batteries. The photo was taken with an electronic stillcamera (ESC) at 05:41:18 GMT, Dec. 11.

S82-28914 (26 March 1982) --- Astronaut Jack R. Lousma, STS-3 commander, spins a package of colored liquid in zero-gravity aboard the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Columbia. He was actually creating a centrifuge to conduct a test involving the separation of bubbles from the liquid rehydrated strawberry powder for visible clarity. The gas from liquid experiment is a test devised by scientist-astronaut William E. Thornton. The gun-like device at center of left edge is a water-dispenser which the astronauts use in rehydrating food packets, many of which can be seen in the background of this middeck area of the Columbia. Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton, pilot, exposed this frame with a 35mm camera.

(12 - 20 Sept 1992) --- Astronauts Jan Davis, mission specialist, and Curtis Brown, Jr., pilot, oversee the progress of some of the 180 female Oriental Hornets onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. .

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- At Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, workers keep watch while the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) is lowered into position on the Delta II rocket below. Launch of MAP via a Boeing Delta II rocket is scheduled for June 30. The launch will place MAP into a lunar-assisted trajectory to the Sun-Earth for a 27-month mission. The probe will measure small fluctuations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation to an accuracy of one millionth of a degree. These measurements should reveal the size, matter content, age, geometry and fate of the universe. They will also reveal the primordial structure that grew to form galaxies and will test ideas about the origins of these primordial structures

STS088-313-030 (4-15 December 1998) --- Astronaut James H. Newman assists astronaut Nancy J. Currie, both mission specialists, with her launch and entry suit (LES) on the middeck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavour. The burnt-orange colored suits are high altitude, partial-pressure garments worn by each crew member for ascent and entry phases of the shuttle flights.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- During Crew Equipment Interface Test activities at SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral, Fla., STS-107 Mission Specialist Laurel Blair Salton Clark gets hands-on training on a glove box experiment inside the training module. As a research mission, STS-107 will carry the SPACEHAB Double Module in its first research flight into space and a broad collection of experiments ranging from material science to life science. CEIT activities enable the crew to perform certain flight operations, operate experiments in a flight-like environment, evaluate stowage locations and obtain additional exposure to specific experiment operations. Other STS-107 crew members are Commander Rick Douglas Husband; Pilot William C. McCool; Payload Commander Michael P. Anderson; Mission Specialists Kalpana Chawla and David M. Brown; and Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, of Israel. STS-107 is scheduled for launch May 23, 2002

STS106-369-019 (8-20 September 2000) ---Two astronauts and a cosmonaut, all mission specialists, float onboard Spacehab. They are astronauts Daniel C. Burbank (top left) and Richard A. Mastracchio (top right), along with cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko. The Spacehab double module is as "empty" as it was at any other time during the STS-106 mission in this scene, photographed during mission's end. The seven-man crew had moved a large amount of supplies and hardware to the International Space Station (ISS).

STS006-06-456 (4-9 April 1983) --- Astronaut Paul J. Weitz, STS-6 commander, points out an item in the crew activity plan (CAP) to astronaut Donald H. Peterson as the mission specialist uses a spoon to eat a meal aboard the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger. The two are on the middeck. They are wearing the shirt and trouser portions of the blue cotton multi-piece constant wear garments. This frame was photographed with a 35mm camera.

S94-40073 (23 June 1994) --- Wearing training versions of the launch and entry suits (LES), astronauts Ellen Ochoa, payload commander, and Joseph P. Tanner, mission specialist, await the beginning of a training session on emergency egress procedures. The STS-66 crew participated in the training, held in the Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Shuttle Mockup and Integration Laboratory. Ochoa and Tanner will join three other NASA astronauts and one international mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis in support of the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-3) flight scheduled for November of this year.

STS093-350-008 (22-27 July 1999) --- Astronaut Michel Tognini, mission specialist representing Frances Centre National dEtudes Spatiales (CNES), checks the Biological Research in Canisters (BRIC) payload petri dishes on the mid deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia. BRIC was designed to investigate the effects of space flight on small arthropod animals and plant specimens.

S74-17306 (5 Dec. 1973) --- Scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson, Skylab 4 science pilot, stands at the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) console in the Multiple Docking Adapter (MDA) of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit. This picture was taken with a hand-held 35mm Nikon camera. The ATM console was one of the busiest areas of the space station during the 84-day third manned Skylab mission, as Comet Kohoutek and solar activity were closely followed by the ATM and monitored by the crewmen from the ATM console. As Gibson demonstrated during a television transmission on Dec. 5, 1973, the ATM console controls several instruments on the solar telescope. Joining Gibson for the record-setting Skylab 4 mission were astronauts Gerald P. Carr, commander, and William R. Pogue, pilot.

S65-29641 (3 June 1965) -- Astronauts Edward H. White II and James A. McDivitt are shown in the white room as they enter the Gemini-4 spacecraft atop the Titan launch vehicle at Cape Kennedy, Florida. The NASA Headquarters alternative photo number is 65-H-291.

51G-102-035 (17-24 June 1985) --- The two payload specialists for the week-long flight share a middeck scene on the earth-orbiting Discovery. Sultan Salman Abdelazize Al-Saud (left) is in the midst of a meal while Patrick Baudry conducts a phase of the French Postural Experiment (FPE) on himself. Sleep restraints are in the background.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of the STS-104 crew check out equipment at the Space Station Processing Facility as part of Crew Equipment Interface Test activities. Seen are (from left) Mission Specialist Michael L. Gernhardt, Commander Steven W. Lindsey, Pilot Charles O. Hobaugh and Mission Specialist James F. Reilly II. Not shown is Mission Specialist Janet L. Kavandi. The mission will carry the Joint Airlock Module to the International Space Station. The U.S.-made module will allow astronauts and cosmonauts in residence on the Station to perform future spacewalks without the presence of a Space Shuttle. The module, which comprises a crew lock and an equipment lock, will be connected to the starboard (right) side of Node 1 Unity. Atlantis will also carry oxygen and nitrogen storage tanks, vital to operation of the Joint Airlock, on a Spacelab Logistics Double Pallet in the payload bay. The tanks, to be installed on the perimeter of the Joint Module during the missions spacewa

ISS015-E-34289 (13 Oct. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, works with an incubator in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

KC-135 AIRPLANE FLIGHT AT LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER DURING WEEK OF AUGUST 17 THROUGH 22 1998

STS042-78-061 (22-30 Jan. 1992) --- The seven STS-42 crewmembers pose for a traditional in-space portrait in the shirt-sleeve environment of the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1) science module in the shuttle's cargo bay. (Hold picture with index numbers at top.) David C. Hilmers, mission specialist, is at top center of the 70mm image. Others pictured are (clockwise) Ronald J. Grabe, mission commander; William F. Readdy; mission specialist; Ulf Merbold, European Space Agency (ESA) payload specialist; Norman E. Thagard, payload commander; Stephen S. Oswald, pilot; and Roberta L. Bondar, Canadian payload specialist. The rotating chair, used often in biomedical tests on the eight-day flight, is (partially obscured) in center frame.

STS091-360-010 (2-12 June 1998) --- Astronauts Wendy B. Lawrence (left) and Janet L. Kavandi are pictured on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery during rendezvous operations with Russia's Mir space station. Kavandi prepares to use a 35mm still camera. The two mission specialists joined four other Discovery crew members for the flight to Mir, from which they later retrieved astronaut Andrew S.W. Thomas.

STS035-49-029 (2-10 Dec 1990) --- Posing on the middeck of Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, are Mission Specialist (MS) Jeffrey A. Hoffman (mustache) and MS Robert A. R. Parker. Determining who is right side up is complicated by the microgravity of space. Hoffman's head is at the middeck floor and his feet are at the ceiling. The two crewmembers are in front of OV-102's port side with the waste collection system (WCS) contingency unit, side hatch, and galley visible behind them.

STS073-356-018 (20 October - 5 November 1995) --- Astronaut Kent V. Rominger, pilot, demonstrates an age-old trash-compacting method on the middeck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia. Following a meal, Rominger had collected the residue wrappers, etc. and filled a plastic bag. Following his compacting maneuvers, Rominger went on to deposit the sack into a temporary trash-stowage area beneath the middeck. Making his first flight into space, Rominger joined four other NASA astronauts and two guest researchers for more than two weeks' research in support of the United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) mission.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral, Fla., Commander Rick Husband works with an experiment that will be part of the mission. STS-107 is a research mission. The primary payload is the first flight of the SHI Research Double Module (SHI_RDM). The experiments range from material sciences to life sciences (many rats). Also part of the payload is the Fast Reaction Experiments Enabling Science, Technology, Applications and Research (FREESTAR) that incorporates eight high priority secondary attached shuttle experiments Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment (MEIDEX), Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment (SOLSE-2), Student Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite for Heuristic International Networking Experiment (STARSHINE), Critical Viscosity of Xenon-2 (CVX-2), Solar Constant Experiment-3 (SOLOCON-3), Prototype Synchrotron Radiation Detector (PSRD), Low Power Transceiver (LPT), and Collisions Into Dust Experiment -2 (COLLIDE-2). STS-107 is scheduled to launch in July 200

STS085-313-037 (7 - 19 August 1997) --- Astronauts N. Jan Davis, payload commander, and Stephen K. Robinson, mission specialist, prepare to change the film for the Southwest Ultraviolet Imaging System (SWUIS) deployed on the hatch window on the Space Shuttle Discovery's mid-deck.

Air Force Colonel Gordon Fullerton, space shuttle pilot on Columbia's third flight, watches as his pen floats in the zero-gravity environment of a low-earth orbit. Lacking a bumper, the "Air Force, A Great Way of Life" bumper sticker was put in the aft station of the orbiter`s flight deck. Country: Space

Larry DeLucas with the (LBNP) Lower Body Negative Pressure Experiment onboard STS-50.

S65-28750 (21 Aug. 1965) --- Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr. (left) and Charles Conrad Jr. are seen in the Gemini-5 spacecraft in the white room at Pad 19 just after insertion.

STS040-43-026 (5-14 June 1991) --- Astronaut Sidney M. Gutierrez, pilot, changes out the lithium hydroxide canisters on the Space Shuttle Columbia's middeck. Gutierrez, making his first flight into space, was joined by six other crew members for the nine-day Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS-1) mission, devoted to life sciences research. This middeck scene was photographed with a 35mm camera.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- During a crew equipment interface test in the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, members of the STS-124 crew, along with a technician, get a close look at the underside of space shuttle Discovery and the attach point for the external tank. The crew members from left are Pilot Kenneth Ham and Mission Specialists Michael Fossum and Akihiko Hoshide, who represents the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, called JAXA. On the mission, Discovery will transport the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module - Pressurized Module (JEM-PM) and the Japanese Remote Manipulator System (JEM-RMS) to the International Space Station to complete the Kibo laboratory. The launch of Discovery is targeted for April 24.

S100-E-5048 (21 April 2001) --- Astronaut Jeffrey S. Ashby, pilot, prepares to use a camera for out-the-window imagery from the aft flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavour. The seven-member STS-100 crew is moving toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS). The image was recorded with a digital still camera

Astronaut Mae Jemison using the Glovebox microscope onboard STS-47.

STS041-02-028 (6-20 Oct 1990) --- Astronaut Bruce E. Melnick, STS-41 mission specialist, participates in a voice command system (VCS) test on Discovery's aft flight deck. Melnick's voice is interpreted into a command that is able to control a video camera.

STS089-364-019 (22-31 Jan. 1998) --- Astronaut Terrence W. (Terry) Wilcutt, STS-89 mission commander, adjusts a camcorder onboard the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Endeavour. The Primary Life Support System (PLSS) for an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) is stored nearby. Though no extravehicular activity (EVA) was planned for the nine-day mission, the EMU spacesuit was carried onboard in the event a contingency EVA was required.

STS041-02-015 (6-10 Oct. 1990) --- A 35mm scene showing astronauts Robert D. Cabana (right), STS-41 pilot, and Bruce E. Melnick, mission specialist, participating in a detailed supplemental objective for STS-41 involving retinal photography. The hypothesis of this experiment is that retinal photographs taken on orbit will show evidence of increased intracranial pressure (ICP) and the evidence of increased ICP and the development of Space Adaptation Syndrome (SAS) will be correlated. SAS has been a subject of on-orbit analysis since the early days of space shuttle.

S88-E-5107 (12-11-98) --- Sergei Krikalev, mission specialist representing the Russian Space Agency (RSA), surrounded by monitors and computers on the flight deck, holds a large camera lens. The photo was taken with an electronic still camera (ESC) at09:33:22 GMT, Dec. 11.

1960S Overhead Of 3 Back-Up Crew Members For First Manned Apollo Mission

STS089-333-015 (22-31 Jan. 1998) --- Onboard Russia's Mir Space Station, cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, Mir-24 flight engineer, tries to find room for supplies transferred from the space shuttle Endeavour during supply transfer operations, while currently docked with Mir.

S82-28923 (March 1982) --- Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton, STS-3 pilot, uses both hands to retrieve part of a meal from an orbital flight test food warmer in the middeck area of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Columbia. The food warmer is a versatile briefcase-like device developed by life sciences personnel at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Astronaut Jack R. Lousma, STS-3 commander, took this photograph with a 35mm camera.

(24 Nov-1 Dec 1991) --- Terence T. (Tom) Henricks, STS-44 pilot, tests his visual acuity with the Visual Function Test (VFT) apparatus. .

STS-95 Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson gives a thumbs up as he dons his flight suit in the Operations and Checkout Building with the help of suit tech George Brittingham (lower right). The final fitting takes place prior to the crew walkout and transport to Launch Pad 39B. Targeted for launch at 2 p.m. EST on Oct. 29, the mission is expected to last 8 days, 21 hours and 49 minutes, and return to KSC at 11:49 a.m. EST on Nov. 7. The STS-95 mission includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process

STS099-311-026 (11-22 February 2000) ---Astronauts Mamoru Mohri (left) and Gerhard P. J. Thiele, both mission specialists, change out lithium hydroxide canisters on the middeck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavour. Mohri represents Japans National Space Development Agency (NASDA) and Thiele represents the European Space Agency (ESA).

S69-25884 (23 Feb. 1969) --- Interior view of the white room atop Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, during Apollo 9 Countdown Demonstration Test activity. Standing next to spacecraft hatch is astronaut James A. McDivitt, commander. Also, taking part in the training exercise were astronauts David R. Scott, command module pilot; and Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot. The Apollo 9 mission will evaluate spacecraft lunar module systems performance during manned Earth-orbital flight. Apollo 9 will be the second manned Saturn V mission.

STS106-319-013 (8-20 September 2000) --- Astronauts Daniel C. Burbank (left) and Edward T. Lu, both mission specialists, work near the Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA1) hatch between Unity node and the functional cargo block (FGB) or Zarya on the International Space Station (ISS).

STS076-370-005 (22-31 March 1996) --- Astronaut Shannon W. Lucid, mission specialist and future cosmonaut guest researcher, appears to enjoy her last hours aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis before becoming a crew member supporting the Mir-21 mission aboard the Russia's Mir Space Station. Astronaut Linda M. Godwin is partially visible at left as she works at one of the mid deck lockers.

STS089-372-031 (22-31 Jan. 1998) --- Astronaut James F. Reilly, STS-89 mission specialist, tugs on a bag of supplies to be transferred from the space shuttle Endeavour's middeck to Russia's Mir Space Station, to which the shuttle was docked for several days. In the midst of the nine-day flight, Endeavour dropped off a number of supplies for the Mir crew members, along with Andrew S. W. Thomas, cosmonaut guest researcher; and the shuttle crew also retrieved David A. Wolf, who had spent four months on Mir.

STS005-45-1821 (11-16 Nov. 1982) --- Astronaut William B. Lenoir, STS-5 mission specialist, takes a break to eat his meal on the space shuttle Columbia. Wet trash stowage bags float freely around him and a fire extinguisher hangs on the wall in front of him.

STS081-369-020 (12-22 Jan. 1997) --- Astronaut Marsha S. Ivins and two Mir-22 crewmembers stray from the conventional food fare as they open a box of chocolates on Russia's Mir Space Station's Base Block Module. Cosmonauts Aleksandr Y. Kaleri (left), flight engineer, and Valeri G. Korzun, share the treats.

41C-05-188 (12 April 1984) --- Astronaut James D. van Hoften, mission specialist, holds an aluminum box, full of honeybees. The experiment in Earth-orbit is duplicated with another colony of the young honeycomb builders on Earth. Dan Poskevich submitted the experiment to NASA as part of the Shuttle student involvement program.

C-141 KAO Planck Institute Heterdyne Spectrometer

(15 May 1982) --- Astronauts Thomas K. Mattingly II (left) and Henry W. Hartsfield Jr., STS-4 commander and pilot, respectively, get in some training time in the motion base Shuttle Mission Simulator (SMS)

JSC2000-05364 (7 June 2000) --- Cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko, Soyuz commander for the Expedition One crew, checks histhermal undergarment prior to donning an Orlan space suit. Gidzenko was about to participate in an underwater spacewalksimulation in the Hydrolab facilityat the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centerin Russia.

At the 195-foot level of the Fixed Service Structure on Launch Pad 39A, the STS-92 crew get instructions on using the slidewire baskets, part of emergency egress equipment. Gathered left to right are Mission Specialist Leroy Chiao; Commander Brian Duffy; Mission Specialists Peter J.K. Jeff” Wisoff, Michael E. Lopez-Alegria and Koichi Wakata of Japan; Pilot Pamela Ann Melroy; and Mission Specialist William S. McArthur Jr. The crew is at KSC for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities that also provide opportunities to inspect the mission payload and take part in a simulated countdown. STS-92 is scheduled to launch Oct. 5 at 9:38 p.m. EDT on the fifth flight to the International Space Station. It will carry two elements of the Space Station, the Integrated Truss Structure Z1 and the third Pressurized Mating Adapter. The mission is also the 100th flight in the Shuttle program

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