NASA Training Sessions

Images depicting NASA crew members engaged in various training activities, focusing on mission preparations and technical simulations in laboratory settings.

PHOTO DATE: 09-26-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 43 crew member Terry Virts during Red Dragon cinema camera training with instructor Mark Turner.

PHOTO DATE: 09-26-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 43 crew member Terry Virts during Red Dragon cinema camera training with instructor Mark Turner.

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.

PHOTO DATE: 09-25-09LOCATION: Bldg 9, VR LabSUBJECT: STS-131 crew during VR LAB MSS/EVAB SUPT3 TEAM 91016 training

NASA mission controllers, engineers, pilots and communications specialists in the mission control room monitor the supersonic research flight off the coast of Galveston, as part of the QSF18 flight series. The flight operations crew tracks the status of the flights, maintains communications with the aircraft, communicates with U.S. Coast Guard, and coordinates community feedback data.

DATE: 9-22-14LOCATION: Bldg 9NW - ISS Mockups. SUBJECT: Expedition 48 crew members (Soyuz 46) Aleksey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeff Williams during Emergency Scenarios Assigned 1 training in Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facilities (SVMTF) ISS mockups with instructor John Ray.

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.

JSC2011-E-060746 (29 June 2011) --- NASA astronauts Doug Hurley (left), STS-135 pilot; Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus, both mission specialists, are pictured during a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

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.

PHOTO DATE: 17 JANUARY 2012LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 31/32/33 Emergency Scenarios training.

Expedition 28 crew payload training on DECLIC with instructor Wayne Wright and JAXA crew member Satoshi Furukawa. Photo Date: July 14, 2010. Location: Building 5, RBUA/Rm. 1120B.

Expedition 27 crew payload training on DECLIC with instructor Wayne Wright and Astronaut Ron Garan. Photo Date: July 14, 2010. Location: Building 5, RBUA/Rm. 1120B.

Photo date: 12-08-2009Location: B9NW ISS MockupSubject: STS130 Transfer Training

JSC2009-E-244204 (23 Nov. 2009) --- Astronaut Nicholas Patrick (right), STS-130 mission specialist, participates in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Crew instructor Alexandros Kanelakos assisted Patrick.

Expedition 36 & 37 crew members during Emergency Scene - 6 Crew training in ISS Mockups. Photo Date: January 15, 2013. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

CAPILLARY DRIVEN HEAT TRANSFER EXPERIMENT MSL-1 MICROGRAVITY SCIENCE LABORATORY SHUTTLE FLIGHT STS-83 CREW TRAINING

Expedition 43 Emergency Scenarios training in ISS mockups with Soyuz 41(Anton Shkaplerov, Samantha Cristoforetti, Terry Virts) and Soyuz 42 (Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, Scott Kelly). Photo Date: July 10, 2014. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

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.

NASA mission controllers, engineers, pilots and communications specialists in the mission control room monitor the supersonic research flight off the coast of Galveston, as part of the QSF18 flight series. The flight operations crew tracks the status of the flights, maintains communications with the aircraft, communicates with U.S. Coast Guard, and coordinates community feedback data.

JSC2012-E-106517 (20 July 2012) --- NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander, participates 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.

PHOTO DATE: 09-15-09LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupSUBJECT: STS-131 & Expedition 22 crew during ISS/STS Emergency Scene Training

Date: 08-20-14Location: bldg 4South, Rm 2901Subject: European Astronaut Andy Mogensen during SSRMS T&C 3 training with instructors Graeme Newman.

DATE: 1-24-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 38 crew members, Kotov, Ryazansky and Mike Hopkins during Emergency Scenarios Training in the ISS mockups.

PHOTO DATE: 09-20-10LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 29 crew members Dan Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin during Routine Ops MS02 training with instructor Bill Frank.

Expedition 40 crew member Steve Swanson with instructor Michaela Benda during crew training. Photo Date: January 8, 2014. Location: Building 5, SSTF.

PHOTO DATE: 04-20-09LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS Mockup, AirlockSUBJECT: Preflight Coverage, STS 128 & Expedition 20 crews training in ISS Airlock mockup, Bldg 9NW

JSC2012-E-107995 (2 Aug. 2012) --- Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov (seated center), Expedition 35 flight engineer and Expedition 36 commander; along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (seated left) and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy (seated right), both Expedition 35/36 flight engineers; and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield (back to camera), Expedition 34 flight engineer and Expedition 35 commander, participate in an emergency scenario training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Interpreters and crew instructors assisted the crew members.

PHOTO DATE: 10-14-10LOCATION: Bldg T-585, rm 118SUBJECT: Expedition 26 crew members Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli during camera review training6

PHOTO DATE: 01-28-10LOCATION: Bldg. 9 - VR Lab SUBJECT: STS-132 crew during their MSS/SIMP EVA3 OPS 4 training with Expedition 23 crew member Tracy Caldwell Dyson. Instructor is Madhurita Sengupta.

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.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., a Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. technician Phil Mislinski checks data from the light sensor test conducted on NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Ball Aerospace was responsible for the flight segment design and fabrication. A NASA Discovery mission, Kepler is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover hundreds of Earth-size and smaller planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets. Results from this mission will allow us to place our solar system within the continuum of planetary systems in the Galaxy. After processing at Astrotech, Kepler will be carried to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. .NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than March 5 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket.

NASA personnel in a control room during the successful second flight of the X-43A aircraft.front row, left to right: Randy Voland, LaRC Propulsion; Craig Christy, Boeing Systems; Dave Reubush, NASA Hyper-X Deputy Program Manager; and Vince Rausch, NASA Hyper-X Program Manager.back row, left to right: Bill Talley, DCI/consultant; Pat Stoliker, DFRC Director (Acting) of Research Engineering; John Martin, LaRC G&C; and Dave Bose, AMA/Controls.

PHOTO DATE: 05-18-10LOCATION: Bldg 5 , SSTFSUBJECT: STS-133 crew during S2 CBM/ROBO INSTALL 31178 training with instructor Patricia Clemandot in the space station training facility in building 5 south.

PHOTO DATE: 7-13-11 LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 29/30 and Expedition 30/31 joint training sessions during Routine Ops training. Photograph crew working together and with instructorsWORK ORDER: 02250-DCB-Exp 29-30 Training_07-13-11

DATE: 3-22-12LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 34 crew Chris Hadfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn during emergency scenarios training in the ISS mockups with instructor Kathryn Bolt

NASA Astronauts Participate in Boeing Mission Rehearsal. From left, Starliner Flight Crew Integration Manager Tony Ceccacci, and NASA astronauts Barry Butch Wilmore and Sunita Suni Williams participate in a mission rehearsal at Boeings Avionics and Software Integration Lab in Houston.

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.

Mr. Hiroyasu Takemoto from the Japanese Government, National Maritime Research Institute, Structural Mechanics Division, observes as Mr. Juan Santamaria (right), of XYZ Solutions demonstrates a computer animated model on the computer, onboard the Bahamian, Multi-purpose Diving Support Vessel (DSV) 'Rockwater 2', during Ehime Maru recovery operations..

NASA mission controllers, engineers, pilots and communications specialists in the mission control room monitor the supersonic research flight off the coast of Galveston, as part of the QSF18 flight series. The flight operations crew tracks the status of the flights, maintains communications with the aircraft, communicates with U.S. Coast Guard, and coordinates community feedback data.

HOUSTON - NASA astronaut Serena Aunon and Andrea Gilkey, a human factors engineer with The Boeing Company, tag up before Aunon puts on her orange launch-and-entry suit for a fit check evaluation of the CST-100 spacecraft at the company's Houston Product Support Center. Aunon's fit check will help evaluate a crew's maneuverability in the spacecraft and test communications. Boeing's CST-100 is being designed to transport crew members or a mix of crew and cargo to low-Earth-orbit destinations, including the International Space Station. The evaluation is part of the ongoing work supporting Boeing's funded Space Act Agreement with NASA's Commercial Crew Program, or CCP, during the agency's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability, or CCiCap, initiative. CCiCap is intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers.

JSC2008-E-031808 (2 April 2008) --- Astronauts John M. Grunsfeld (right), Andrew J. Feustel, Michael T. Good and Michael J. Massimino (second left), all STS-125 mission specialists, participate in an extravehicular activity (EVA) hardware training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Tomas Gonzalez-Torres (left) assisted the crewmembers.

JSC2011-E-024816 (8 March 2011) --- NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, STS-134 commander, speaks to a crowd during a cake-cutting ceremony in the Jake Garn Simulation and Training Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Also pictured in the background (from the left) are NASA astronaut Greg H. Johnson, pilot; NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel and Greg Chamitoff, all mission specialists.

PHOTO DATE: 04/01/10LOCATION:B9 ISS Mock upSUBJECT: STS-132 crew during Transfer Hands-On Practice training

Visit of Washington Senator Maria Cantwell, Oregon Congressman Greg Walden, and Secretary Gale Norton, left to right, to the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington, where they received a tour and a briefing on the Mount St. Helens status from volcanologist John Pallister, far right

DATE: 6-26-14LOCATION: Bldg 9NWSUBJECT: Expedition 42/43 crew members Samantha Cristoforetti (ESA) and Terry Virts

PHOTO DATE: 01-05-10LOCATION: BLDG 4SSUBJECT: STS-133 (Last Shuttle Mission) crew during their meeting with their scheduler Dale Williamson to mark the start of their training.WORK ORDER: 0021-STS133-01-05-10

NASA mission controllers, engineers, pilots and communications specialists in the mission control room monitor the supersonic research flight off the coast of Galveston, as part of the QSF18 flight series. The flight operations crew tracks the status of the flights, maintains communications with the aircraft, communicates with U.S. Coast Guard, and coordinates community feedback data.

Date: 08-20-14Location: bldg 4South, Rm 2901Subject: European Astronaut Andy Mogensen during SSRMS T&C 3 training with instructors Graeme Newman.

PHOTO DATE: 01 August 2012LOCATION: Bldg. 17 - JSC Food LabSUBJECT: Expedition 35/36 Russian cosmonauts during food tasting in JSC Food Lab. Vinogradov, Yurchikin and Misurkin with Russian interpreter.

HOUSTON - Chris Ferguson, a former space shuttle commander who is now director of Crew and Mission Operations for Boeing Space Exploration, talks with an engineer following simulations that showed that the CST-100 software. Boeing demonstrated that the CST-100 software allows a human pilot to take over control of the spacecraft from the computer during all phases of a mission following separation from the launch vehicle. The pilot-in-the-loop demonstration at the Houston Product Support Center is a milestone under Boeing's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability agreement with the agency and its Commercial Crew Program.

JSC2009-E-244207 (23 Nov. 2009) --- Astronaut Stephen Robinson, STS-130 mission specialist, participates in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

JSC2011-E-029136 (25 March 2011) --- STS-135 crew members participate in an Animal Enclosure Module (AEM) training session in the Jake Garn Simulation and Training Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Pictured on the right (foreground) is NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson, commander. Pictured in the background (from the left) are astronauts Doug Hurley (mostly obscured), pilot; Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus (partially obscured), both mission specialists. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program.

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton, left foreground, and Washington Senator Maria Cantwell, right foreground, to the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington, where officials received tour and briefing on the status of Mount St. Helens, focal point of concern after steam-and-ash emission

Date: 08-21-14Location: Bldg 36, 131Subject: ESA Astronaut Andreas Mogensen and NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik during NEEMO 19 communications training with instructors Marcum Reagan and Barbara Janoiko

PHOTO DATE: 05_07_09LOCATION: B9 VR LABSUBJECT: STS-129 EVA VR TRAINING

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Students from California Polytechnic Institute, or CalPoly, and Merritt Island High School in Florida perform integration tests on a pair of cubesats they will fly on a suborbital mission in the summer. A team from each school built a satellite and the two will work together inside a small rocket to measure vibration and other data during launch. NASA engineers, including Shaun Daly, in gray shirt, are acting as mentors for the project and some of the space agency's labs at Kennedy Space Center, including this one inside the Operations and Checkout Building, are being used by the teams.

Inside the Multi-Operations Support Building near the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians and operations personnel review procedures for a test simulation of loading propellants into a replicated test tank for Orion, on Aug. 16, 2019. Exploration Ground Systems is preparing for Artemis 1 with a series of hazardous hyper test events at the MPPF. Technicians will practice putting on Self-Contained Atmospheric Protective Ensemble (SCAPE) suits and then complete tanking to test the system before Orion arrives for processing. During preparations for launch, these teams will be responsible for loading the Orion vehicle with propellants prior to transportation to the Vehicle Assembly Building, where it will be secured atop the Space Launch System rocket. SCAPE suits are used in operations involving toxic propellants and are supplied with air either through a hardline or through a self-contained environmental control unit.

JSC2011-E-028122 (23 March 2011) --- NASA astronauts Doug Hurley, STS-135 pilot; and Sandy Magnus (foreground), mission specialist, participate in an exercise in the systems engineering simulator in the Avionics Systems Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

At Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Veggie Project Manager Nicole Dufour instructs astronaut Peggy Whitson during the harvest of Chinese cabbage aboard the International Space Station. While the space station crew will get to eat some of the Chinese cabbage, the rest is being saved for scientific study back at Kennedy Space Center. This is the fifth crop grown aboard the station, and the first Chinese cabbage.

STS-95 Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, at far left, of the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) works on the Biological Research in Canisters (BRIC) experiment which will fly on the scheduled nine-day mission. Watching her, starting with second from left, are STS-95 Pilot Steven W. Lindsey, Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski, and NASDA representatives Sachiko Aizawa and Shigeki Kamigaichi. 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

JSC2010-E-185484 (10 Nov. 2010) --- NASA astronauts Doug Hurley (left), STS-135 pilot; and Rex Walheim, mission specialist, participate in a food tasting session in the Habitability and Environmental Factors Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program.

DATE: 1-7-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - POGO StandSUBJECT: Expedition 44 astronaut Kjell Lindgren during ISS EVA POGO 1 training.

Soyuz 40 (Expedition 41/42) Russian cosmonaut Yelena Serova during USOS Structure & Configuration with instuctor Josh Matthew. Photo Date: August 27, 2013. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

Date: 10-16-12Location: Bldg 5, SSTFSubject: Expedition 37 (Soyuz 35) ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano during Columbus Reactivation training with instructor Michaela Benda in the crew station, Node-2 area sitting at a table and working on laptops

Date: 08-10-2017Location: B1 & Jacobs EngineeringSubject: NASA Acting Chief Technology Officer Douglas Terrier Tours JSC and Jacobs

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Retired Navy Admiral Harold W. Gehman Jr. (third from left), chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, visits the Thermal Protection System shop and is briefed by Martin Wilson (second from left), the shop manager. Gehman and other members of the board are visiting sites at KSC to become familiar with the Shuttle launch process. 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.

S82-28950 (1 April 1982) --- During a break from a debriefing session, the STS-3 crew members look over some of the photography of their launch from the Kennedy Space Center along with other participants of the meeting. Astronaut Jack R. Lousma is second from left; astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton is at left. They are commander and pilot, respectively, of STS-3. George W. S. Abbey, director of flight operations at JSC, is second from right, and astronaut Joe H. Engle, STS-2 commander, is at right.

JSC2012-E-220362 (9 Oct. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, both Expedition 36/37 flight engineers, participate in a space station EVA planning and preparation session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Crew instructor Regan Cheney (right) assisted the crew members.

Yuri's Night at Ames a celebration of the first human in space

PHOTO DATE: 02-04-10LOCATION: BLDG 9NWSUBJECT: STS-133 crew during CCT II Flight Communications planWORK ORDER: 0468-STS133-02-04-10

DATE: 5-16-14. LOCATION: Bldg. 16N, Room 1040. SUBJECT: Expedition 47 (Soyuz 45) crew members Tim Kopra and Timothy Peake during FF T&C/R ADV2 training in the SES Alpha Cupola.

NASA mission controllers, engineers, pilots and communications specialists in the mission control room monitor the supersonic research flight off the coast of Galveston, as part of the QSF18 flight series. The flight operations crew tracks the status of the flights, maintains communications with the aircraft, communicates with U.S. Coast Guard, and coordinates community feedback data.

PHOTO DATE: 10-14-10LOCATION: Bldg T-585, rm 118SUBJECT: Expedition 26 crew members Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli during camera review training6

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Dr. Mason Peck, center, NASA's chief Technologist, listens as David Reed, right, explains an innovation during Pecks' tour of the Space Life Sciences Laboratory at Kennedy. Karen L. Thompson, chief technologist for Kennedy Space Center, looks on. Peck toured the lab facility during a visit to the space center.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-95 Payload Specialist John Glenn (left), who is a senator from Ohio, and Mission Specialist Scott Parazynski, M.D., (right) look over some of the equipment to fly on the mission, while participating in 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 process

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington, where she joined other officials for tour and briefing from Geological Survey scientists, including seismologist Seth Moran, right, on the status of Mount St. Helens, focal point of concern after steam-and-ash emission

PHOTO DATE: 09-25-09LOCATION: Bldg 9, VR LabSUBJECT: STS-131 crew during VR LAB MSS/EVAB SUPT3 TEAM 91016 training

JSC2011-E-058646 (24 June 2011) --- NASA astronaut Doug Hurley, STS-135 pilot, participates in a flight data file review in the Flight Operations Facility at NASAs Johnson Space Center.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the background, scientists talk to the media about the experiments recovered during the search for Columbia debris. From left are George D'Heilly, with Instrumentation Technology Associates, Inc.; Barry Perlman, with Pembroke Pines Middle School in Florida; John Cassanto, with ITA; and Lou Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society. The Commercial ITA Biomedical Experiments payload on mission STS-107 included the Growth of Bacterial Biofilm on Surfaces during Spaceflight (GOBBSS) experiment and crystals grown for cancer research. The GOBBSS experiment was sponsored by the Planetary Society, with joint participation of an Israeli and a Palestinian student, and developed by the Israeli Aerospace Medical Institute and JSC Astrobiology Center.

DATE: 3-15-11LOCATION: Building 9 - ISS MockupSUBJECT: Expedition 28/29 crew members during Docking Timeline Training.

PHOTO DATE: 09-15-09LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupSUBJECT: STS-131 & Expedition 22 crew during ISS/STS Emergency Scene Training

JSC2008-E-008415 (29 Jan. 2008) --- The STS-125 crewmembers participate in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center. Pictured from the right are Michael T. Good, K. Megan McArthur, both mission specialists; Gregory C. Johnson, pilot; Michael J. Massimino, mission specialist; Scott D. Altman, commander; John M. Grunsfeld and Andrew J. Feustel, both mission specialists. United Space Alliance (USA) crew trainer Robert H. (Rob) Tomaro (center, back to camera) briefed the crew.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - NASA mentors and the student launch team for the StangSat and Polysat go through final checks in the CubeSat lab facility at California Polytechnic Institute, or CalPoly. The payloads, which include sensors and equipment carefully packaged into 4-inch cubes, will ride in the body of a Garvey Spacecraft Corporation's Prospector P-18D rocket during a June 15 launch on a high-altitude, suborbital flight. Collectively known as CubeSats, the satellites will record shock, vibrations and heat inside the rocket. They will not be released during the test flight, but the results will be used to prove or strengthen their designs before they are carried into orbit in 2014 on a much larger rocket. A new, lightweight carrier is also being tested for use on future missions to deploy the small spacecraft. The flight also is being watched closely as a model for trying out new or off-the-shelf technologies quickly before putting them in the pipeline for use on NASA's largest la

LCROSS Impact Night John Marmie (on left) and Peter Klupar (on right) In the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. just after impact.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken tours the Quantum Materials Lab at the University of Copenhagen, in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 17, 2021.

CAPE CANAVERAl, Fla. - Dr. Ray Wheeler, left, explains a plant experiment to Dr. Mason Peck, NASA's chief Technologist, during a tour of the Space Life Sciences Laboratory at Kennedy. Peck toured the lab facility during a visit to the space center.

Photo Date: 02-18-2010Location: Bldg. 9NWSubject: STS-133, Expedition 24 and 25 together during their ISS/STS-133 EMER Training

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- One of about 45 of NASAs social media followers photographs a speaker during two days of presentations on the Kennedy Space Center's past, present and future.The social media participants gathered at the Florida spaceport on Aug. 2 and 3, 2012 to hear from key former and current leaders who related stories of the space agency's efforts to explore the unknown. It was the first social media event totally run by Kennedy.

SPACE STATION SCIENCE INVESTIGATORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD TOUR THE PAYLOAD OPERATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER (POIC). THE TOUR WAS LED BY ASTRONAUT AND PAYLOAD OPERATIONS DIRECTOR AT MSFC T.J. CREAMER. WHEN SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS REACH THE STATION, PARTICIPANTS IN THE TOUR WILL WORK WITH MSFC CONTROLLERS IN THE POIC WHO CAN SEND COMMANDS TO THE EXPERIMENTS, MONITOR DATA, AND ASSIST THE ISS CREW.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot, center, tours the Thermal Protection System Facility, or TPSF, during a visit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From left are Kennedy Director Bob Cabana, Lightfoot, and Martin Boyd, TPSF manager with Jacobs Technologies, briefing his guests on the production of TPS tile for NASA's new Orion spacecraft. NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it. Performing these elements for the proposed asteroid initiative integrates the best of NASA's science, technology and human exploration capabilities and draws on the innovation of America's brightest scientists and engineers. It uses current and developing capabilities to find both large asteroids that pose a hazard to Earth and small asteroids that could be candidates for the initiative, accelerates our tec

NASA GPM Safety Quality and Assurance, Shirley Dion, and, NASA GPM Quality and Assurance, Larry Morgan, monitor the all-day launch simulation for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory at the Spacecraft Test and Assembly Building 2 (STA2), Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC), Tanegashima Island, Japan. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to launch an H-IIA rocket carrying the GPM Core Observatory on Feb. 28, 2014. The NASA-JAXA GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours.

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.

DATE: 5-21-13LOCATION: NBL - Pool TopsideSUBJECT: Mike Hopkins during INCR-37 ISS EVA Maintenance 95027 run with astronaut Kathleen Rubins.

Visit of Washington Senator Maria Cantwell, Oregon Congressman Greg Walden, Secretary Gale Norton, Washington Congressman Brian Baird, left to right, to the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington, where they received tour and Mount St. Helens briefing from volcanologist John Pallister, fifth left

Associate Administrator for Space Operations Kathy Lueders speaks with NASAs SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts during a meet and greet with employees Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Kimbrough, McArthur, Hoshide, and 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.

Kennedy Space Center employees are working on assembling the flight hardware of NASAs Orbital Syngas Commodity Augmentation Reactor, or OSCAR - an Early Career Initiative project at the Florida spaceport that studies technology to convert trash and human waste into useful gasses such as methane, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. By processing small pieces of trash in a high-temperature reactor, OSCAR is advancing new and innovative technology for managing waste in space. OSCAR would reduce the amount of space needed for waste storage within a spacecraft, turn some waste into gasses that have energy storage and life support applications and ensure waste is no longer biologically active. A prototype has already been developed, and a team of Kennedy employees are in the process of constructing a new rig for suborbital flight testing.

JSC2006-E-38929 (31 Aug. 2006) --- Astronaut Andrew J. Feustel (background), spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), and flight director Rick LaBrode monitor data at their consoles in the Station (Blue) Flight Control Room in Houston's Mission Control Center during Expedition 13 mission activities.

Expedition 37 crew members Karen Nyberg, Yuri Yurchikhin and Luca Parmitano during Routine Ops AC 2 training in the ISS Mockups. Photo Date: January 9, 2013. Location: Building 9NW - ISS Mockups.

DATE: 9-22-14LOCATION: Bldg 9NW - ISS Mockups. SUBJECT: Expedition 48 crew members (Soyuz 46) Aleksey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeff Williams during Emergency Scenarios Assigned 1 training in Space Vehicle Mockup Training Facilities (SVMTF) ISS mockups with instructor John Ray.

JSC2011-E-005867 (19 Jan. 2011) --- Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko (left), Expedition 27 flight engineer and Expedition 28 commander; Alexander Samokutyaev (center), Expedition 27/28 flight engineer; and Sergei Volkov, Expedition 28/29 flight engineer, participate in an emergency scenarios training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Photo Date: 02-18-2010Location: Bldg. 9NWSubject: STS-133, Expedition 24 and 25 together during their ISS/STS-133 EMER Training

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