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Astronauts in Space Suits

Astronauts in Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs), preparing for spacewalks and engaging in training, showcasing equipment and action in a space setting.

Date: 12-10-13Location: Bldg7, SSATASubject: SSATA EMU crew training and certification for Expedition 40/41 ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst - DRY RUN
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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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 has a leak check preformed on the Russian Sokol suit.
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jsc2018e050011 - In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 backup crewmember Anne McClain of NASA runs through procedures in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft May 20 during the first Soyuz fit check dress rehearsal activities. McClain is one of the backup crewmembers to the prime crew, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency who will launch June 6 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.
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iss056e174066 (Sept. 17, 2018) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Alexander Gerst is pictured wearing a U.S. spacesuit during a fit check inside the U.S. Quest Airlock where U.S. spacewalks are staged. The patch on Gerst's left shoulder represents the flag of his home country of Germany.
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ANAMARIA MARINCA in EUROPA REPORT (2013), directed by SEBASTIAN CORDERO.
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Date: 06-28-13Location: Bldg 7, SSATASubject: ISS-038 crew members a Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata during SSATA crew training and EMU certification.
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ISS037-E-028067 (9 Nov. 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Expedition 37 flight engineer, attired in a Russian Orlan spacesuit, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) in support of assembly and maintenance on the International Space Station. During the five-hour, 50-minute spacewalk, Kotov and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy (out of frame) continued the setup of a combination EVA workstation and biaxial pointing platform that was installed during an Expedition 36 spacewalk on Aug. 22.
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JSC2008-E-039248 (12 May 2008) --- Attired in a training version of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 18 flight engineer, awaits the start of a training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center.
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S94-40051 (1 August 1994) --- Attired in a training version of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), astronaut Scott E. Parazynski, mission specialist, prepares to be submerged in a 25-feet deep pool at the Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F). Though no extravehicular activity (EVA) is planned for the mission, at least two astronauts are trained to perform tasks that would require a space walk in the event of failure of remote systems. In November, Parazynski will join four other NASA astronauts and a European mission specialist for a week and a half in space aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The flight will support the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-3) mission.
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ISS003-E-6748 (October 2001) --- Astronaut Frank L. Culbertson (left), Expedition Three mission commander, and cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov, flight engineer, wearing Russian Sokol suits, are seated in the Soyuz spacecraft that is docked to the International Space Station (ISS). This Soyuz return vehicle will be moved from the Earth-facing port of the Zarya module for the linkup to the new Pirs Docking Compartment. The move of the Soyuz will mark the first time the new Pirs, which arrived at the station September 17, 2001, will serve as a docking port. The Soyuz will be shifted to prepare for the arrival of a new Soyuz return craft, to be launched October 21, 2001 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz can serve as a crew return vehicle at the station for a maximum of about six months. Dezhurov represents Rosaviakosmos. This image was taken with a digital still camera.
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JSC2000-02191 (March 2000) --- Astronaut Daniel C. Burbank, wearing a training version of the extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), stands on a platform that will allow him to be lowered into water for an underwater rehearsal of a space walk scheduled for STS-106. The EVA training is being conducted at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL)in the Sonny Carter Training Center near the Johnson Space Center (JSC).
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S94-39775 (August 1994) --- Astronaut Carl J. Meade, STS-64 mission specialist, listens to ground monitors during a simulation of a spacewalk scheduled for his September mission. Meade, who shared the rehearsal in the Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F) pool with crewmate astronaut Mark C. Lee, is equipped with a training version of new extravehicular activity (EVA) hardware called the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system. The hardware includes a mobility-aiding back harness and a chest-mounted hand control module.
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A picture of an astronaut suit as seen inside the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
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JSC2008-E-044814 (4 June 2008) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, Expedition 22/23 flight engineer, awaits the start of a training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Noguchi is wearing a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit.
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Spaceflight Participant Guy Laliberté prepares to have his Russian Sokol suit pressure tested prior to his launch to the International Space Station (ISS) with Expedition 21 Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev and Expedition 21 Flight Engineer Jeffrey N. Williams, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
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In February 1980, a satellite called Solar Maximum Mission Spacecraft, or Solar Max, was launched into Earth's orbit. Its primary objective was to provide a detailed study of solar flares,active regions on the Sun's surface, sunspots, and other solar activities. Additionally, it was to measure the total output of radiation from the Sun. Not much was known about solar activity at that time except for a slight knowledge of solar flares. After its launch, Solar Max fulfilled everyone's expectations. However, after a year in orbit, Solar Max's Altitude Control System malfunctioned, preventing the precise pointing of instruments at the Sun. NASA scientists were disappointed at the lost data, but not altogether dismayed because Solar Max had been designed for Space Shuttle retrievability, enabling repair to the satellite. On April 6, 1984, Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-41C), Commanded by astronaut Robert L. Crippen and piloted by Francis R. Scobee, launched on a historic voyage. This voyage
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STS109-322-021 (6 March 2002) --- Astronaut Richard M. Linnehan, STS-109 mission specialist, participates in thethird of five space walks to perform work on the Hubble Space Telescope(HST). The third STS-109 extravehicular activity (EVA) marked the second of three for Linnehan, who was joined by astronaut John M. Grunsfeld on all three. On this particular walk, astronauts Linnehan and Grunsfeld turnedoff the telescope in order to replace the heart of it power system.
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Date: 11-07-12Location: NBL - Pool TopsideSubject: Expedition 40 crew members (Soyuz 39) Reid Wiseman and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst during INC-40 ISS EVA ORU PRF 41027.
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NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Gemini 8 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, command pilot, and David R. Scott, pilot, during a photosSession for the press outside Mission Control Center, Cape Kennedy.
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S70-34687 (11 April 1970) --- Astronaut John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot for the Apollo 13 mission, has just suited up in the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building during the Apollo 13 prelaunch countdown.
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S95-04113 (24 February 1995) --- Wearing a training version of the Space Shuttle Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), astronaut Winston E. Scott, mission specialist, prepares to go underwater for a Extravehicular Activity (EVA) simulation at Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F). In less than a year from now, Scott is scheduled to perform an EVA in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in support of the STS-72 mission.
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Expedition 62 astronaut Jessica Meir is seen outside the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft after she landed with NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Friday, April 17, 2020. Meir and Skripochka returned after 205 days in space, and Morgan after 272 days in space. All three served as Expedition 60-61-62 crew members onboard the International Space Station.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-101 Mission Specialists Mary Ellen Weber (left) and Jeffrey N. Williams (right) happily settle into their seats inside Space Shuttle Atlantis for a simulated launch countdown. The countdown is part of Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) activities that also include emergency egress training and familiarization with the payload. Other crew members taking part are Commander James D. Halsell Jr., Pilot Scott J. "Doc" Horowitz and Mission Specialists James Voss, Susan Helms and Yury Usachev of Russia. During their mission to the International Space Station, the STS-101 crew will be delivering logistics and supplies, plus preparing the Station for the arrival of the Zvezda Service Module, expected to be launched by Russia in July 2000. Also, the crew will conduct one space walk to perform maintenance on the Space Station. This will be the third assembly flight for the Space Station. STS-101 is scheduled to launch April 24 at 4:15 p.m. from Launch P
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AS17-162-24053 (7-19 Dec. 1972) --- Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Jack Schmitt, lunar module pilot, took this photograph of his two fellow crew men under zero-gravity conditions aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft during the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program. That is astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander, who is seemingly right side up. Astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, appears to be upside down. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module (LM) Challenger to explore the Taurus-Littrow region of the moon, astronaut Evans remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) America in lunar orbit.
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jsc2018e095903 (November 7, 2018) --- 2017 NASA astronaut candidate Jonny Kim wears a spacesuit prior to underwater spacewalk training at NASA Johnson Space Centers Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston.
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ISS018-E-044788 (29 March 2009) --- U.S. spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi is pictured in the Harmony node of the International Space Station.
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PHOTO DATE(S): 08/27/09 (Satcher) @ 0900LOCATION: Bldg 7/SSATA ChamberSUBJECT: SSATA Crew Training and EMU Verification for STS-129 crew member Robert Satcher during suited dry run. Test Director: Cristina Anchondo.
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S92-29546 (March 1992) --- Attired in a training version of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), astronaut Nancy J. Sherlock checks her communications link during a training session at the Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F). Training as a mission specialist for the STS-57 mission, Sherlock was rehearsing a contingency spacewalk. Astronauts scheduled for Extravehicular Activity (EVA) duty and those who might be called upon for unscheduled space walk duty frequently use a nearby 25 feet deep pool to practice various chores. The suits used in the training are equipped with communications gear, pressurized and weighted to create a neutral buoyancy in the water tank.EDITOR'S NOTE: Nancy J. Currie (formerly Sherlock) has been assigned as a mission specialist for the STS-70 mission, scheduled for launch in spring of 1995.
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. SpaceX USCV-7 (Crew 7)Imagery provided by SpaceX
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PHOTO DATE: 20 June 2013LOCATION: Bldg. 7, SSATA ChamberSUBJECT: JAXA Astronaut Koichi Wakata during SSATA Dry Run.
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STS-31 Mission Specialist (MS) Kathryn D. Sullivan, wearing extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) & communications carrier assembly (CCA), attaches service and cooling umbilical (SCU) to the EMU connection on the display & control module (DCM) during contingency extravehicular activity (EVA) preparations in the airlock of Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103. The procedure was completed in case an EVA was required to support Hubble Space Telescope (HST) deployment.
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STS077-319-036 (19-29 May 1996) --- Astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas, mission specialist, floats through the tunnel that connects the Spacehab Module to the Space Shuttle Endeavours cabin. Thomas and five other astronauts went on to spend almost ten days aboard Endeavour in support of the Spacehab 4 mission and a number of other payloads.
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jsc2020e017113 - Expedition 63 Preflight - Expedition 63 crewmember Chris Cassidy of NASA gives a thumbs up onboard the crew bus as he, Anatoly Ivanishin, and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos arrive at the launch pad, Thursday, April 9, 2020 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A few hours later, they lifted off on a Soyuz rocket for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.
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Expedition 10 Commander and NASA Science Officer Leroy Chiao gives a thumbs up during the ride from the suit up facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the launch pad as he and his crewmates, Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Salizhan Sharipov and Russian Space Forces cosmonaut Yuri Shargin prepare for their liftoff to the International Space Station, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004. Their Soyuz TMA-5 vehicle will blast off at 9:06 a.m. Baikonur time (306 GMT) to begin the two-day trip to the ISS.
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S66-34057 (3 June 1966) --- Fisheye view of astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan in the Gemini-9 spacecraft while hatches are sealed. They are in the White Room atop Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center.
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jsc2019e052893 - In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates flashes a thumbs up as he runs through procedures Sept. 11 aboard the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft during an initial Soyuz vehicle fit check. Almansoori, Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and Jessica Meir of NASA will launch Sept. 25 on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.
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American Astronaut John Glenn flight suit prior to MA-6 launch, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, NASA, February 20, 1962
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Houston, USA, January 26, 2013: American space suit for astronaut at Houston Space Center in Texas, USA, North America
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NASA Associate Administrator for Education and former astronaut Leland Melvin teaches the ABC's of living and working in space to Sesame Street's Elmo at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, July 6, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, FL. The pair discussed nutrition, exercise, hygiene in orbit. They also chatted about the features of the space shuttle and the various suits that astronauts wear.