Astronauts in Space Operations

Astronauts conducting various tasks aboard spacecraft, using equipment and cameras, highlighting life in microgravity and space exploration.

Man using a reflectometer to test circuit connectors.

BRUCE WIEGMANN, AN ENGINEER AT NASA'S MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER IN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, EXAMINES A HAIR-THIN TETHER THAT WILL BE PART OF AN ELECTROSTATIC PROPULSION SYSTEM THAT COULD SEND SPACECRAFT ON INTERSTELLAR MISSIONS.

International Observe the Moon Night at the Goddard Visitor Center

Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and P.I. John Marmie at NASA Ames Research Center (N-240 rm173)

Two microscopes with the shape of faces, symbolic image, man and technology

S92-E-5029 (12 October 2000) --- Astronaut Koichi Wakata, sought energy from a soft beverage packet prior to fulfilling an important role with thefour scheduled STS-92 space walks and his other duties. From the shirt sleeve environment of the the Space Shuttle Discovery, the mission specialist who represents Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA), went on to man the controls for the remote manipulator system (RMS) or robot arm, to assist the four space walkers as they worked on the International Space Station (ISS). This photo was recorded with an electronic still camera (ESC) on Flight Day 2.

Scientist with protective eyewear using tablet PC

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the KSC Press Site, Jerry Goudy, a technician with United Space Alliance, poses with his helmet and a sample flow liner used in an orbiter. Cracks were found in several flow liners recently; Goudy was responsible for welding the cracks in Atlantis. These liners are inside the space shuttle Main Propulsion System fuel lines to preclude liquid hydrogen and oxygen turbulent flow into the engines during launch and climb to orbit. A welding and polishing process is being implemented that will restore flow-liner integrity to design condition. The technique has called for welds of three very small cracks on Atlantis and two on Endeavour. Additionally, the microscopic rough edges of the liner holes are being smoothed by polishing to reduce the chance of more cracks developing in the future. Atlantis is scheduled to fly on mission STS-112.

Reportage in Descartes University, Paris, France where Vizua 3D is based. Vizua provides real-time 3D visualisations for doctors using imagery from patients. Doctors can then print these visualisations in 3D. Printing a 3D visualisation of a pelvis.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, launch team members monitor the countdown to the launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-135 mission to the International Space Station. Seen here is NASA Test Director Steve Payne.Atlantis with its crew of four; Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, lifted off at 11:29 a.m. EDT on July 8, 2011 to deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts for the station. Atlantis also will fly the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment that will investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing satellites in orbit. In addition, Atlantis will return with a failed ammonia pump module to help NASA better understand the failure mechanism and improve pump designs for future systems. STS-135 will be the 33rd flight of Atlantis, the 37th shuttle mission to the space station, and

Young woman looking at mountains, using coin operated telescope

A man in front of a linear accelerator, Los Alamos, NM, USA.

Looking Through Binoculars

Man holding a sextant

Portaits; Kepler Science Group - Tom Barclay

Tourist looking through a telescope

Telescope isolated on white background for search star universe, science concept

Girl amateur astronomer sets up a telescope for observing the starry sky

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., at right, and Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski examine a camera at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility in Cape Canaveral. 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

Peter Haeberling, chief engineer, lab for solar technology, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland, Europe

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senior watching through a telescope

Seven-year girl adjusts the telescope and looked into the frame

View of STS 51-D mission specialist Rhea Seddon training with the Arriflex 16mm camera.

Telescope at a viewpoint

Astronomy telescope on tripod in dome tent

Engineer looking at robotic machine at workshop

Male cardiologist light painting heart attack in laboratory

Telescope at the Salinas de Punta Larga, Fuencaliente, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe

Arturo Zychlinsky, director of the Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max-Planck-Institute, a German institution for disease control and prevention, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Madrid, 11/17/2015. Interview with James Green, director of NASA's planetary science division. Photo: Ignacio Gil ARCHDC.

Leo Sternbach, Scientist

Engineer in laboratory holding a robotic arm

Center for Disease Control (CDC) microbiologist, and Special Pathogens Branch staff member, Dr. Thomas Stevens, Jr. peers out through an air-tight portal from inside the organizations Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory decontamination shower. The shower leads into the changing room, were laboratorians can disrobe and safely removing their air-tight suits.The Special Pathogens Branch's (SPB) charter is the study of highly infectious viruses, many of them causing hemorrhagic manifestations in h

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Nine-year-old Sofi Collis (left) is introduced to the media by NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe at a press conference. The Siberian-born Arizona resident wrote the winning entry in the Name the Rovers Contest sponsored by NASA and the Lego Co., a Denmark-based toymaker, with collaboration from the Planetary Society, Pasadena, Calif. The names she selected for the Mars Exploration Rovers are "Spirit" and "Opportunity." The third grader's essay was chosen from more than 10,000 American student entries. NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers are designed to study the history of water on Mars. These robotic geologists are equipped with a robotic arm, a drilling tool, three spectrometers, and four pairs of cameras that allow them to have a human-like, 3D view of the terrain. Each rover could travel as far as 100 meters in one day to act as Mars scientists' eyes and hands, exploring an environment where humans are not yet able to go. MER-A, with the rover Spirit

S85-40671 (18 Sept. 1985) --- The two teachers, Barbara R. Morgan and Sharon Christa McAuliffe (out of frame) have hands-on experience with an Arriflex motion picture camera following a briefing on space photography. The two began training Sept. 10, 1985 with the STS-51L crew and learning basic procedures for space travelers. The second week of training included camera training, aircraft familiarization and other activities. Morgan zeroes in on a test subject during a practice session with the Arriflex.

Girl lover of astronomy stands next to the telescope and looked into the frame

WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY / ICING RESEARCH TUNNEL IRT DYE TEAM

Dr. Jay Pasachoff of Williams College with His Equipment

In this 2007 image, Center for Disease Control (CDC) microbiologist, and Special Pathogens Branch staff member, Dr. Thomas Stevens, Jr. was peering out through an air-tight portal from inside the organization's Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory decontamination shower. The shower leads into the changing room, were laboratorians could disrobe, safely removing their air-tight suits. The Special Pathogens Branch's (SPB) charter is the study of highly infectious viruses, many of them causing hemorrhagic manifestations in humans. Our daily work involves the investigation of viruses such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Marburg hemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever, Rift valley fever virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, arenaviruses and hantaviruses, and other recently identified and emerging viral diseases. Almost all of these viruses are classified as Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) pathogens and as such must be handled in special facilities designed to contain them safely. SPB operates one of th

Mr. Annibal Sacconi, a member of the "Brotherhood of Fly" and builder of artistic flies

MSC Flight Crew visit Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, AZ

Bear looking at the moon through an astronomy telescope

Hispanic teenager looking at engines

Girl bespectacled amateur astronomer funny smiling standing by telescope

Health, Science, Nobel Prize Winner, Professor Harry Kroto Holding Molymod

LES JOHNSON INTRODUCES PROFESSOR VARIOS LAPP, UNIVERSITY OF SURREY, UK, PRIME INVESTIGATOR OF SOLAR SAIL TECHNOLOGY

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board look intently at some equipment in the Orbiter Processing Facility. In the center is Retired Navy Adm. Harold Gehman Jr., who is chairman of the board. The board is visiting sites at KSC to become familiar with the Shuttle launch process and elements. The independent board is charged with determining what caused the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the loss of its seven-member crew on Feb. 1 during reentry.

Madman analyzing scientist

1996 'STELLAR' program commencement activities. Special guest Astronaut Buzz Aldrin drops by to tour and chat. Aldrin was attending his book signing at US Space Camp earlier in the day.

Robert Wilson of the Solar/Solar terrestrial Studies team at the National Space Science and Technology Center, a joint research and collaborative think tank partnership of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and the Marshall Space Flight Center, adjusts his telescope which is set up as a viewing opportunity for MSFC employees prior to the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse event. The Huntsville area experienced 97 percent occultation, nearly a complete blocking out of the sun by the orbit of Earth's moon. The next opportunity to view a solar eclipse in the eastern and central United States will occur in April 2024.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-95 Payload Specialist John Glenn (left), who is a senator from Ohio, and Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai (extreme right), who represents the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), check out equipment during SPACEHAB familiarization at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility, Cape Canaveral. The mission, scheduled to launch Oct. 29, 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 proces

Dr. Nancy Grace Roman visits James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Hubble Project Team.

Girl and her father looking into space through a telescope

Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), British computer scientist and principal developer of the World Wide Web (WWW or Web). Berners-Lee studied at Oxford University. After working in industry, Berners-Lee moved to CERN, the European particle physics lab near Geneva. It was there that Berners-Lee developed the Web, a global network for information sharing based on hypertext documents. These are text documents which have other data, such as images or links to other computers, embedded in them. The Web started in 1989, and now links thousands of host computers through the Internet. Berners-Lee left CERN in 1994 and is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Photographed in 1997.

Kepler Project Team member Joe Twicken

The Kepler Mission Science Principal Investigator Dr William 'Bill' Borucki in his office at NASA Ames Research center.

Two kids using microscope

Madman analyzing scientist

Portaits; Kepler Science Group - William Rapin

PHOTO DATE: 02-03-11LOCATION: Bldg 26, 104SUBJECT: Photograph JAXA astronaut and Expedition 28 crew member Satoshi Furukawa during ARED PT training. Instructors are Robert Tweedy (glasses) and BruceNieschwitz

National radio host Tom Joyner hosts a panel discussion at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 28, 2019, about the agencys Moon to Mars plans. The discussion was open for all Kennedy employees to attend. The panel included former NASA administrator and astronaut Charlie Bolden, former astronaut Winston Scott, Kennedy Chief Technologist Barbara Brown and Exploration Ground Systems Associate Manager, Technical, Kim Carter.

A crew member examines a specimen aboard the hospital ship USNS COMFORT (T-SH-20), en route to Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown

Arturo Zychlinsky, director of the Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max-Planck-Institute, a German institution for disease control and prevention, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Deser , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education department personnel Brian Day, Barbara Bazar and a accompaning (learning for the the classroom) team of teachers will be studying side-by-side with NASA scientists who search for life in extreme environments, closely approximating what they expect to find on other planets. Why the Mojave -- an inhospitable, sun-drenched spot in the California Desert This natural setting presents scientists with opportunities to study environments that are analogous to what explorers will find on the Moon and Mars. Teachers and scientists will perform scientific fieldwork in lunar geology, Mars astrobiology, Mars geology, and issues of temperature and solar inundation and radiation. for additional information and Outreach projects see http //quest.arc.nasa.gov/

Near Field Probe Scanner Pictured William Darby

Paul Debevec stands in Light Stage 5 at the USC ICT Graphics Laboratory in Marina Del Rey, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.

New Horizons co-investigator John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, CO, uses a pen to demonstrate how Ultima Thule might be rotating during a press conference prior to the flyby of the Kuiper Belt object by the New Horizons spacecraft, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

Kepler Project Team member jeffery VanCleve

Anefo photo collection. Assignment nuffic; Prof. Van de Muyzenberg. August 5, 1987

NASA Staff Dr.Darden with Sonic Boom Model

HUU TRINH POSES WITH A HYPERGOLIC BI-PROPELLANT THRUSTER FOR A POTENTIAL APPLICATION ON FUTURE ROBOTIC LUNAR SPACECRAFTS.

Leo Sternbach, Scientist

Steve Hart, goat researcher

Kepler Project Team member Jie Li

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Researcher of the Museum handling Giant Walkingstick Paris

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

Yunjin Kim, NuSTAR project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laborartory (JPL), talks about NASA's Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuStar) during a briefing, Wednesday, May 30, 2012, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Imaging light in the high-energy, short-wavelength X-ray range, the telescope will aim to study how black holes form and evolve along with galaxies. The instrument, packed aboard an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket is set to launch from a plane in midair no earlier than June 13 from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Anefo photo collection. Dr. A. Lange, commission Gelderlander. September 25, 1973

News presenters and ufo

A visitor to the Maliau Basin Study Centre has a tiny praying mantis on his arm, Maliau Basin, Sabah, Borneo, East Malaysia.

PHOTO DATE: 07-10-14LOCATION: Bldg. 17, Room 1070 - Food Lab SUBJECT: Soyuz 43 (Expedition 44/45) crew members Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui during Food Tasting #2.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

ISS028-E-046356 (13 Sept. 2011) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, Expedition 28 flight engineer, holds an eye chart in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, left, and Kudo Tsunoda of Microsoft, speak to members of the news media during a preview of the new Destination: Mars experience at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Destination: Mars gives guests an opportunity to visit” several sites on Mars using real imagery from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover. Based on OnSight, a tool created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the experience brings guests together with a holographic version of Aldrin as they are guided to Mars using Microsoft HoloLens mixed reality headset.

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