NASA Research and Training Sessions

Researchers and astronauts engaged in training and monitoring activities for space missions, with a focus on technology and teamwork.

DATE: 9-1-11LOCATION: Bldg. 5south, SSTFSUBJECT: Expedition 30 crew member and ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers training in SSTF near Columbia module on laptops with trainer Michaela Benda.
DATE: 9-1-11LOCATION: Bldg. 5south, SSTFSUBJECT: Expedition 30 crew member and ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers training in SSTF near Columbia module on laptops with trainer Michaela Benda.
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JSC2000-E-27079 (20 October 2000) ---From left, Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Mikhail Turin, Kenneth D. Bowersox, Yuri P. Gidzenko, Sergei K. Krikalev and William M. (Bill) Shepherd, the backup and prime crew members for Expedition One, duringconference prior to simulation at Baikonur complex in Kazakhstan.
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Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Nick Hague of NASA and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos have their Sokol suits pressure checked ahead of their launch on a Soyuz rocket, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. During the Soyuz spacecraft's climb to orbit, an anomaly occurred, resulting in an abort downrange. The crew was quickly recovered and is in good condition.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - David Blake, NASA principal investigator for the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) investigation by the Curiosity rover, demonstrates the experiment for the media in NASA Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium in Florida during prelaunch activities for the agencys Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) launch. CheMin is designed to analyze powdered rock and soil samples by identifying and quantifying their mineral content using X-ray diffraction, a first for a mission to Mars. The car-sized Martian rover, Curiosity, has 10 science instruments designed to search for signs of life, including methane, and help determine if the gas is from a biological or geological source. Liftoff of MSL aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is planned during a launch window which extends from 10:02 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. EST on Nov. 26.
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Expedition 35 back up crewmembers Sergei Ryazansky, left, and Michael Hopkins watched live video of Soyuz TMA-08M nearing the International Space Station, Friday, March 29, 2013, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz reached the station in less than six hours and after only four orbits, instead of its usual two-day route.
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InSights (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Principal Investigator W. Bruce Banerdt presents information on the first launch to Mars from the West Coast and the latest findings from InSight to Kennedy Space Center employees on March 13, 2019, at Kennedys Space Station Processing Facility Conference Center in Florida. InSight is a NASA Discovery Program mission that placed a single geophysical lander on Mars to study the Red Planets deep interior and will ultimately provide a better understanding of the processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system, including Earth.
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PHOTO DATE: 03-18-14LOCATION: Bldg. 2s - PAO Studio B SUBJECT: Expedition 41 (Soyuz 39) press conference with Maxim Suraev, Alexander Gerst and Reid Wiseman.
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JSC2008-E-010333 (7 Feb. 2008) --- Public Affairs Office commentator Rob Navias watches the large screens in the space shuttle flight control room of Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center (MCC) during launch countdown activities a few hundred miles away in Florida, site of Space Shuttle Atlantis' scheduled STS-122 launch. Liftoff occurred at 2:45 p.m. (EST) on Feb. 7, 2008 from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
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JSC2010-E-087712 (25 May 2010) --- NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel, STS-134 mission specialist, participates in a food tasting session in the Habitability and Environmental Factors Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
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Karim Agabi (right), an astronomy researcher at the CNRS, will be training winter student Domenico Mura in the use and maintenance of the ASTEP telescope over the next 9 winter months. The telescope's mission is to discover new exoplanets. Concordia Antarctic Research Station, Dome C Plateau, East Antarctica.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center, Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach (foreground) cheers over the successful liftoff of Space Shuttle Discovery, watching it rocket through the sky on mission STS-121 -- the first ever Independence Day launch of a space shuttle. At far left is Stephanie Stilson, NASA flow director in the Process Integration Branch of the Shuttle Processing Directorate, who began conducting Discovery's processing operations in December 2000. Liftoff was on-time at 2:38 p.m. EDT. During the 12-day mission, the STS-121 crew of seven will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the International Space Station. Landing is scheduled for July 16 or 17 at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility.
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Tom Woods, (second from right), principal investigator, Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment instrument, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado in Boulder speaks during a briefing to discuss recent images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at the Newseum in Washington.
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NASAs SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough of NASA, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide speak with Shannon Estenoz, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Thursday, June 9, 2022, during a visit to the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. Kimbrough, McArthur, Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet completed the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program and spent 198 days aboard the orbiting laboratory as part of Expeditions 65 and 66.
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JSC2001-E-21329 (12 July 2001) --- Astronaut Christopher J. (Gus) Loria, STS-104 spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), intently studies pre-flight data at his console in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houston's Mission Control Center (MCC) prior to the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis. Fellow astronaut Mark L. Polansky monitors weather issues in the background.
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PHOTO DATE: 11-30-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS SRB Mockup SUBJECT: Expedition 40 crew members (Soyuz 39) Reid Wiseman and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst with Soyuz 38 crew member Steve Swanson during DEPRESS CREW RESPONSE/B9 SRB.
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Artemis I Post Launch News Conference. Members of the media attend a postlaunch news conference on Nov. 16, 2022, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after launch of Artemis I at 1:47 a.m. EST from Kennedys Launch Complex 39B. Participants were Jackie McGuiness, NASA Communications; Bill Nelson, NASA administrator; Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager, NASA Headquarters; Mike Bolger, Exploration Ground Systems Program manager, Kennedy; John Honeycutt, Space Launch System Program manager, Marshall; Howard Hu, Orion Program manager, NASAs Johnson Space Center; and Emily Nelson, chief flight director, Johnson. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment,
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NASA Officials gather at Ames Research Center to discuss Spaceship development progress. Constellation is developing the Orion spacecraft and Ares rockets to support an American return to the moon by 2020. (with front right, Eric James, NASA-EX on camera, Ed Schilling, NASA video producer in distance with Astrid Olson, NASA Ames PAO)
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Commercial crew astronauts Eric Boe, Josh Cassada, Chris Ferguson, Nicole Mann, Suni Williams, Bob Behnken, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and Doug Hurley interact with employees at Johnson Space Center shortly after their commercial spaceflight assignments were announced. Boe, Ferguson and Mann will fly on Boeings CST-100 Starliner in the companys upcoming Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station, while Cassada and Williams are assigned to Starliners first operational mission to the space station. Behnken and Hurley will fly on SpaceXs Crew Dragon in the companys Demo-2 flight test to the space station, while Glover and Hopkins are assigned to Crew Dragons first operational mission to station.
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Date: 12-05-11Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupSubject: Expedition 33 Soyuz crew Tom Marshburn and Chris Hadfield during their Emergency Scene training
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Engineers with Exploration Ground Systems at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida work on software for the launch of Artemis I. Reggie Martin (standing) and Danny Zaatari stay focused on the “Path to the Pad” inside the Launch Control Center on Sept 29, 2020. Artemis I is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions that will enable human exploration to the Moon and Mars.
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Bruce Banerdt, InSight Principal Investigator, NASA JPL, center left, and Tom Hoffman, InSight Project Manager, NASA JPL, rejoice after receiving confirmation that the Mars InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 inside the Mission Support Area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.
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male and female colleagues in discussion by 3d printer
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InSights (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Principal Investigator W. Bruce Banerdt presents information on the first launch to Mars from the West Coast and the latest findings from InSight to Kennedy Space Center employees on March 13, 2019, at Kennedys Space Station Processing Facility Conference Center in Florida. InSight is a NASA Discovery Program mission that placed a single geophysical lander on Mars to study the Red Planets deep interior and will ultimately provide a better understanding of the processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system, including Earth.
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JSC2002-E-08144 (1 March 2002) --- Good news concerning the anticipated launch of STS-109 reaches the Spacecraft Communicator (CAPCOM) console in the Shuttle Flight Control Room of the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center. From left, astronautsWilliam A. Oefelein, Charles O. Hobaugh and Mark L. Polansky, obviously are pleased with the news, possibly connected to improving weather at the launch site for the Space Shuttle Columbia several hundred miles away in Florida. Astronaut Polansky is ascent CAPCOM and Hobaugh closely monitors the Florida weather for the CAPCOM position.
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STS039-S-051 (28 April 1991) --- In KSC's Operations and Checkout Building, a very light breakfast is shared by the seven members of the STS-39 flight crew prior to their April 28, 1991 launch. Left to right are astronauts Donald R. McMonagle, Guion S. Bluford Jr., L. Blaine Hammond, Michael L. Coats, Gregory J. Harbaugh, Richard J. Hieb and Charles L. (Lacy) Veach. Launch occurred at 7:33:14 a.m. (EDT), April 28, 1991.
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. Dean Neeley and Kirt Stallings, ER-2 pilots from NASAs Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards California, completed flights in support of the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Storms (IMPACTS) mission. The IMPACTS team tracked storms across the Eastern United States to help understand how winter storms form and develop. Here Neeley and Stallings are seen in a lighter moment at debrief. The aircraft, which is based at NASAs Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, was temporarily based at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia. The three-year IMPACTS campaign concluded on Feb. 28, 2023.
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Philippe Lognonné, SEIS investigation lead, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) discusses NASA's InSight mission during a prelaunch media briefing, Thursday, May 3, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.
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JSC2011-E-029075 (21 March 2011) --- NASA astronaut Rex Walheim, STS-135 mission specialist, is pictured during a training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program.
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NASAs SpaceX Crew-3 Meet and Greet with Leadership. NASAs SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Tom Marshburn, and Mark Vande Hei participate in a meet and greet with NASA leadership, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington.
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PHOTO DATE: 10-28-13LOCATION: NBL - Pool TopsideSUBJECT: Expedition 42/43 crew training at the NBL with Scott Kelly and Samantha Cristoforetti during ISS EVA Maintenance 2 PRF.
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Trip of the Federal Minister of Economics and Climate Protection Robert Habeck to the USA from 06-10 March 2024 Departure in Berlin together with the ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst and Matthias Maurer recorded in Berlin, 06 March 2024
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S65-56313 (2 Dec. 1965) --- Gemini-7 astronauts James Lovell Jr. (center) and Frank Borman (right) review mission requirements for their Gemini-7 flight. The two astronauts are scheduled for a 14-day mission. On the fifth day, they will attempt a rendezvous with the Gemini-6 spacecraft to be launched nine days later and piloted by astronaut Walter Schirra Jr. and Thomas Stafford.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA Shuttle Launch Director Michael Leinbach shows his lucky silver bullet while in firing room #4 of the NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Control Center, Monday, May 11, 2009, at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Leinbach carries the inert silver bullet as a good luck charm. Space shuttle Atlantis with its seven-member crew launched at 2:01 p.m. EDT Monday from Kennedy on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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Vice President and Program Manager, Webb, Northrop Grumman, Scott Willoughby answers questions from the media during a briefing following the successful deployment of NASAs James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022, from the Webb Space Telescope Mission Operations Center at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. With Webbs 21.3-foot (6.5-meter) primary mirror fully deployed, the infrared observatory has completed its unprecedented process of unfolding in space to prepare for science operations. The observatory will study every phase of cosmic history—from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe.
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, celebrates with other managers after receiving confirmation that the Mars InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 inside the Mission Support Area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.
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Artemis I Liftoff Activities. NASA Test Conductors Teresa Annulis, at left, and Roberta Wyrick, monitor launch countdown activities inside Firing Room 1 of the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 16, 2022. Liftoff of the agencys Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft from Launch Complex 39B was at 1:47 a.m. EST. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.
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PHOTO DATE: 30 September 2010, LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW, CCT-II, PCBM and VOT Mockup, SUBJECT: STS-133 crew during SSMTF IN/EG TIMELINE 91105 training with instructors Bob Behrendsen and Glenn Johnson.
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European Astronaut Tim Peake of ESA during ISS EVA MAINT 3 NBL Training with Astronaut Tim Kopra and instructor Sandy Moore. Photo Date: September 10, 2014. Location: NBL - Pool Topside.
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The STS-95 crew partakes in the traditional breakfast in the crew quarters at the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building prior to their suitup for their trip to Launch Pad 39-B. Seated (left to right) are Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai (M.D., Ph.D.), representing the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., senator from Ohio, Pilot Steven W. Lindsey, Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown, Mission Specialist Pedro Duque of Spain, representing the European Space Agency (ESA), Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson, and Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski. The STS-95 crew are at KSC to participate in the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) which includes mission familiarization activities, emergency egress training, and a simulated main engine cutoff. The STS-95 mission, targeted for liftoff on Oct. 29, includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems T
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NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough speaks to an audience member after giving a presentation about his time onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during Expeditions 49/50, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at Arlington Career Center in Arlington, Virginia. During Expedition 50, Kimbrough completed four spacewalks for a total of 39 hours outside the ISS, and concluded his 173-day mission when he landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in April 2017.
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While NASAs F/A-18 goes supersonic off the coast, a team of researchers monitor the flight and operate multiple sound monitor stations around Galveston and its surrounding area. This allows NASA to obtain accurate sound level data, which gets matched to community response data.
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Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka continues the traditional of signing one of the doors at the Cosmonaut Hotel on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft with Padalka, Flight Engineer Sergei Revin of Russia, and NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba aboard launched at 9:01 a.m. Kazakhstan time on Tuesday, May 15.
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The Mars Sample Return Campaign Science Group gathered for their first meeting, at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech, and took a group photo. This June 28 photo includes team members who attended in person; several others attended virtually or were not able to participate. The committee will provide oversight with the goal of maximizing the scientific potential of Mars rock and sediment samples that would be returned to Earth for in-depth analysis, as part of the Campaign.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Honoring tradition, the crew of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-123 mission pose for a photo at the breakfast table. From left are Mission Specialists Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman; Pilot Gregory H. Johnson; Commander Dominic Gorie; and Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman, who will remain on the International Space Station as a flight engineer, Robert L. Behnken, and Takao Doi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The crew will make a record-breaking 16-day mission to the International Space Station. On STS-123, Endeavour and its crew will deliver the first section of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and the Canadian Space Agency's two-armed robotic system, Dextre. Launch is scheduled for 2:28 a.m. EDT March 11.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida hosted a Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) module demonstration. Seen here is Benjamin Reed, deputy project manager with NASA's Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office, giving media an overview of the RRM. Space shuttle Atlantis will fly the RRM on its STS-135 mission to the International Space Station. Once in place, the RRM will use the station's two-armed robotic system, known as Dextre, to investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing satellites in orbit.Atlantis and its crew of four are scheduled to lift off at 11:26 a.m. EDT on July 8 to deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts to the station. Atlantis also will fly the RRM and return 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 miss
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Expedition 61 backup crewmember Thomas Marshburn of NASA is blessed by a Russian Orthodox Priest in the Cosmonaut Hotel Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 61 prime crewmembers Jessica Meir of NASA and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, and spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates will launch later in the day on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station.
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Visit to Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field by Mercury 13 Astronaut Trainee, Wally Funk
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OSIRIS-REx Sample Return. University of Arizona OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta, right, answers questions from reporters during an OSIRIS-REx sample return press conference, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
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S98-08737 (9 April 1998) --- The mission commander, along with two payload specialists in training for NASA's STS-95 mission scheduled for later this year aboard Discovery, samples space foods at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). With payload specialists Chiaki Mukai and U.S. Sen. John H. Glenn Jr. (D.-Ohio) is Curtis L. Brown Jr. (right), mission commander. The photo was taken by Joe McNally, National Geographic, for NASA.
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Cassini program manager at JPL, Earl Maize, left, Cassini project scientist at JPL, Linda Spilker, center, and spacecraft operations team manager for the Cassini mission at Saturn, Julie Webster, right, are seen as they watch a replay of the final moments of the Cassini spacecraft during a press conference held after the end of the Cassini mission, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Since its arrival in 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission has been a discovery machine, revolutionizing our knowledge of the Saturn system and captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. On Sept. 15, 2017, operators deliberately plunged the spacecraft into Saturn, as Cassini gathered science until the end. Loss of contact with the Cassini spacecraft occurred at 7:55 a.m. EDT (4:55 a.m. PDT). The plunge” ensures Saturn’s moons will remain pristine for future exploration. During Cassini’s final days, mission team member
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The STS-109 crew enjoys an early morning snack that includes a symbolic cake with the mission logo, part of a ritual before a launch. Seated, left to right, are MIssion Specialists Michael Massimino and James Newman; Pilot Duane Carey; Commander Scott Altman; and Mission Specialists Nancy Currie, John Grunsfeld and Richard Linnehan. On mission STS-109, the crew will capture the Hubble Space Telescope using the Shuttles robotic arm and secure it on a workstand in Columbia's payload bay. Four mission specialists will perform five scheduled spacewalks to complete system upgrades to the telescope. More durable solar arrays, a large gyroscopic assembly to help point the telescope properly, a new telescope power control unit, and a cooling system to restore the use of a key infrared camera and spectrometer unit, which has been dormant since 1999, will all be installed. In addition, the telescope's view of the Universe will be improved with the addition of the Ad
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Apollo 11 astronauts Edwin E. Aldrin (striped shirt), Neil A. Armstrong, (left of Aldrin), and Michael Collins (extreme right on opposite side of table) had dinner with other astronauts the night before launching for the first lunar landing mission. The Apollo 11 mission launched from the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida via the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) developed Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16, 1969 and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. Aboard the space craft were astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, Command Module (CM) pilot; and Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module (LM) pilot. The CM, Columbia”, piloted by Collins, remained in a parking orbit around the Moon while the LM, Eagle’’, carrying astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin, landed on the Moon. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong was the first human to ever stand on the lunar surface, followed by Aldrin. During 2½ hours of surface exploration, the crew collected 47 pounds of lunar sur
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On July 16, 2019, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, Apollo-era and Artemis-1 launch team members mingle in Launch Control Center Firing Room 1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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DATE: 9-3-14LOCATION: NBL - MU-176SUBJECT: ESA Astronaut Tim Peaks and US Astronaut Tim Kopra during ISS EVA MAINT 3 1G training with instructor Sandy Moore.
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JSC2010-E-086399 (20 May 2010) --- Flight director Mike Sarafin monitors data at his console in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center during STS-132 mission flight day seven activities.