Space Operations Training

Images of personnel engaged in training for space missions, showcasing teamwork and technical hardware interactions in mockup environments.

PHOTO DATE: 03-19-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 34/35 crew training
PHOTO DATE: 03-19-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 34/35 crew training
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 2 at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United Space Alliance aerospace technicians Hector Castillo, left, and Tom Goldean inspect a heat shield carrier panel to be installed on the space shuttle Endeavour.The work is part of Transition and Retirement of the remaining space shuttles, Endeavour and Atlantis. Endeavour is being prepared for public display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Its ferry flight to California is targeted for mid-September. Endeavour was the last space shuttle added to NASAs orbiter fleet. Over the course of its 19-year career, Endeavour spent 299 days in space during 25 missions.
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STS-127 astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn during STS-127 2J/INC-19 EVA 4 training at the NBL Location: SCTF, NBL
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PHOTO DATE: 07-18-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 38 crew's Emergency Scenarios Training in SVMTF's ISS Mockups.
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PHOTO DATE: 5-9-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: ISS Routine Ops training session with Butch Wilmore from Soyuz 40, Terry Virts and Samantha Cristoforetti from Soyuz 41 and Scott Kelly from Soyuz 42.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- While astronaut John Herrington (left) looks on, Norm Abram tries on a tool carrier used in space. Abram is master carpenter of televisions "This Old House" and "The New Yankee Workshop." He is at KSC to film an episode of "This Old House.
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PHOTO DATE: 16 July 2010, LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW, SVMTF - ISS Mockups, SUBJECT: Joint STS-134, Expedition 25 and Expedition 26 ISS EmergencyScenario training.
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NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) DC-8 deployment to Cape Verde, Sal island, Africa
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JSC2012-E-215429 (12 Sept. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, both Expedition 36/37 flight engineers, participate in a routine operations training session in an International Space Station mock-up/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
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DATE: 9-11-12LOCATION: Bldg. 5 - SSTF High BaySUBJECT: Expedition 36/37 crew (Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano) along with Exp. 37/38s Michael Hopkins during EPS Major Case Training.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-95 Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski, at center, takes some experiment equipment from Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., while in the SPACEHAB trainer at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility in Cape Canaveral. Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, representing the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), sets up a camera in the foreground. 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
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At Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, a worker (left) runs a wire through a mounting hole on the second stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket in order to affix an external video camera held by the worker at right. The Delta II will launch the Stardust spacecraft on Feb. 6. Looking toward Earth, the camera will record the liftoff and separation of the first stage. Stardust is destined for a close encounter with the comet Wild 2 in January 2004. Using a silicon-based substance called aerogel, Stardust will capture comet particles flying off the nucleus of the comet. The spacecraft also will bring back samples of interstellar dust. These materials consist of ancient pre-solar interstellar grains and other remnants left over from the formation of the solar system. Scientists expect their analysis to provide important insights into the evolution of the sun and planets and possibly into the origin of life itself. The collected samples will return to Earth in a sample return capsule to
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DATE: 6-25-14LOCATION: Bldg 9NW - POGOSUBJECT: Expedition 42/43 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti during ISS EVA POGO 2 training with instructor Sandy Fletcher.
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DATE: 9-24-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups.SUBJECT: Expedition 48 crew members (Soyuz 46) Aleksey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeff Williams during Routine Ops training in Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facilities (SVMTF) ISS mockups with instructor John Ray.
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On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, July 16, 2019, astronaut Michael Collins, left, speaks to Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana in the astronaut crew quarters about the moments leading up to launch at 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, and what it was like to be the first to land on the Moon.
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PHOTO DATE: 03/28/14LOCATION: B5 SSTFSUBJECT: Michaela Benda training ESA astronaut and Expedition 41 crew member during Columbus module training
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PHOTO DATE: 04-23-15LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Airlock Mockup SUBJECT: Expedition 48/49 (Soyuz 47) crew members Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi with Soyuz 49 crew member Peggy Whitson during ISS EVA P/P 1 training with instructor Grant Slusser
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2014-03-14-10-17-15-21In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA enters his Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft during a “fit check” dress rehearsal exercise March 14 that is part of the crew’s final training. Swanson, Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station March 26 (Kazakh time) for the start of a six-month mission.NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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Date: 03-09-12Location: Ellington FieldSubject: Expedition 35 (Soyuz 33S) crew member Tom Marshburn preparing for his T-38 fligh with NASA pilot Thomas Parent.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the SPACEHAB module at SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral, Fla., Payload Commander Michael Anderson scans documents. STS-107 is a research mission, and 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). Among the experiments is a Hitchhiker carrier system, modular and expandable in accordance with payload requirements. STS-107 is scheduled to launch in June 2002.
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iss060e087787 (Oct. 1, 2019) --- NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Jessica Meir display a memento aboard the International Space Station, symbolizing their membership in the Astronaut Class of 2013, affectionately nicknamed the "Eight Balls."
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PHOTO DATE: 5-3-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Soyuz 36 crew (Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazanskiy and Michael Hopkins) in their Routine Ops training.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On a visit to Kennedy, STS-114 Mission Specialist Stephen Robinson looks at the tiles, part of the Thermal Protection System, on the belly of the orbiter Discovery. The designated vehicle for the mission, Discovery is in the Orbiter Processing Facility for launch processing. Discovery is scheduled for a launch planning window of May 12 to June 3, 2005.
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jsc2018e085894 (Oct. 3, 2018) --- Expedition 57 backup crew members Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, left, and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, right, practice rendezvous and docking procedures on a laptop training simulator as part of their pre-launch preparations, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA are scheduled to launch on Oct. 11 onboard the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
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. SpaceX USCV-7 (Crew 7)Imagery provided by SpaceX
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REDSTONE ARSENAL GARRISON COMMANDER COL. THOMAS "DOC" HOLLIDAY, LEFT, DISCUSSES THE PROCESSES AND HARDWARE USED IN NASA IN-SPACE MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES WITH KEN COOPER, A STRUCTURAL MATERIALS ENGINEER AT NASA'S MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER. COOPER, PART OF THE MARSHALL ENGINEERING DIRECTORATE'S ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND DIGITAL SOLUTIONS TEAM, WAS AMONG NUMEROUS SUBJECT-MATTER EXPERTS WHO SHARED KEY MARSHALL CAPABILITIES DURING HOLLIDAY'S MARCH 3 MARSHALL TOUR. HOLLIDAY, A DECORATED OFFICER WHOSE MILITARY CAREER BEGAN IN 1992, GAINED FIRSTHAND INSIGHT INTO MARSHALL'S ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND 3-D PRINTING TECHNIQUES; ROUND-THE-CLOCK INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SCIENCE AND COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT BY THE PAYLOAD OPERATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER TEAM; AND THE LATEST UPGRADES TO MARSHALL TEST STANDS IN SUPPORT OF NEXT-GENERATION LAUNCH VEHICLE AND FLIGHT HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT. MARSHALL, A REDSTONE ARSENAL TENANT, ROUTINELY SHARES CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURING ADVANCES WITH ITS MIL
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. SpaceX USCV-7 (Crew 7)Imagery provided by SpaceX
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STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. Rear Admiral Ron Piret, commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, visited and toured Teledyne Maritime facility in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Teledyne is one of many industry partners that Naval Oceanography works with to survey the ocean. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command directs and oversees more than 2,500 globally distributed military and civilian personnel who collect, process and exploit environmental information to assist Fleet and Joint Commanders in all warfare areas to make better decisions faster than the adversary, August 10, 2022.
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Jeffrey Beyon, lower right, and Paul Joseph Petzar, right, researchers from NASA's Langley Research Center, speak with Ramesh Kakar right, of the NASA Earth Science Division as they work with DAWN Air Data Acquisition and Processing software aboard NASA's DC-8 research aircraft, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010, in support of the GRIP experiment at Fort Lauderdale International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment is a NASA Earth science field experiment in 2010 that is being conducted to better understand how tropical storms form and develop into major hurricanes.
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The rock band X Ambassadors is photographed in front of NASAs Artemis I Orion spacecraft inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building high bay at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida. X Ambassadors visited Kennedy on Oct. 21, 2019, and had the opportunity to tour areas around the multi-user spaceport such as the O&C, Launch Complex 39B and Swamp Works. The title of the bands latest album, Orion, led them to an up-close look at the spacecraft that will take humans farther than theyve ever gone before.
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Visit to Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field by Mercury 13 Astronaut Trainee, Wally Funk
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JSC2010-E-087708 (25 May 2010) --- NASA astronaut Gregory H. Johnson (foreground), STS-134 pilot; along with astronauts Greg Chamitoff and Michael Fincke, both STS-134 mission specialists, participate in a food tasting session in the Habitability and Environmental Factors Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
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ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet during CMS ARED OPS training with instructor Kimberlee Jadwick . Photo Date: September 16, 2014. Location: Building 26.
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Regions - Images Relating to the Discover-AQ Program - images and video clips relating to the Discover-AQ Program. Discover-AQ stands for Deriving Information on Surface conditions from COlumn and VERtically resolved observations relevant to Air Quality , Environmental Protection Agency
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Robotics researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, stand with robots RoboSimian and Surrogate, both built at JPL.
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NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) command team at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory monitoring the DART spacecrafts impact into the asteroid Dimorphos. The operation is the first of its kind test to redirect deadly asteroids from hitting Earth.