Expedition 49/50 Astronaut Shane Kimbrough briefs the press on his extended mission to the International Space Station in the Marshall Space Flight Center Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC).

ASTRONAUT KIMIYA YUI SHAKES HANDS WITH BRETT BOULDIN

ASTRONAUT KJELL LINDGREN SHAKES HANDS WITH BRETT BOULDIN

ASTRONAUT KIMIYA YUI SHAKES HANDS WITH PAYLOAD RACK OFFICER ROBERT TRIMBLE

Expedition 49/50 Astronaut Shane Kimbrough briefs the press on his extended mission to the International Space Station in the Marshall Space Flight Center Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC).

Douglas Loverro, NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and Marshall Center Director Jody Singer participate in a Town Hall with Marshall Space Flight Center employees

LEWIS WOOTEN, NEW DIRECTOR OF THE MISSION OPERATIONS LABORATORY AT NASA'S MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER IN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, MANAGES OPERATIONS IN THE PAYLOAD OPERATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER-THE COMMAND POST FOR ALL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Douglas Loverro, NASA’s new associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, right, joins NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Director Jody Singer to answer questions from the Marshall team at a Dec. 17 town hall. Loverro discussed the importance of the workforce, positivity and the unifying and inspirational nature of space exploration. “At the end of the day, we depend on the workforce, not on Headquarters to further exploration,” Loverro said. “My job is to listen to you and translate that into telling Congress and the administration what you need to complete your job. We're seeking a common purpose, on a common mission. I'm relying on you to tell me what you need to get this mission done.”

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque hanging ceremony and to provide valuable feedback of their on-orbit science investigations with the Payload Operations and Integration Center team. Payload Operations Director Phillipia Simmons with Astronauts Joe Acaba (L) and Mark Vande Hei

Increment 60 plaque hanging in the Payload Operations Operation Integration (POC) facility. Dwight Mosby holding the Increment 60 plaque along with Kira Thomas and Christian Bonner who hung the plaque.

A PHOTOGRAPH FIRST RUN IN THE “MARSHALL STAR” IN 2001 IS RECREATED FOR PUBLICATION 15 YEARS LATER IN THE REMODELED PAYLOAD OPERATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER (POIC). PICTURED (L TO R) ARE: BRIAN LITTLE, OLA MYSZKA, AND ARIS TANONE.

NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and Marshall Center Director Jody Singer participate in the hanging of a new International Space Station flag out side of the Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC). Also participating were employees of the support center and the Payload Operations Integration Center.

Astronaut Shane Kimbrough visits Marshall for plaque ceremony.

Space Station expedition 50/51 crew member Thomas Pesquet hangs a commemorative plaque in the Payload Operation Integration Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

RETIRED NASA ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY, LEFT, AND PAYLOAD PLANNING MANAGER TONY PITTMAN PAUSE FOR A PHOTO BEFORE HANGING THE MISSION PATCH FOR EXPEDITION 46 ON THE WALL OF THE PAYLOAD OPERATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER

UAH ENGINEERING STUDENT ROBERT HILLAN TALKS TO SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS ABOUT HIS WINNING 3-D PRINTED TOOL DESIGNED FOR USE ON ISS, AND IS INTERVIEWED BY LOCAL MEDIA

Douglas Loverro, NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and Marshall Center Director Jody Singer participate in a Town Hall with Marshall Space Flight Center employees

UAH ENGINEERING STUDENT ROBERT HILLAN TALKS TO SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS ABOUT HIS WINNING 3-D PRINTED TOOL DESIGNED FOR USE ON ISS, AND IS INTERVIEWED BY LOCAL MEDIA

Douglas Loverro, NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and Marshall Center Director Jody Singer participate in a Town Hall with Marshall Space Flight Center employees

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque hanging ceremony and to provide valuable feedback of their on-orbit science investigations with the Payload Operations and Integration Center team. Astronauts Mark Vande Hei (L) and Astronaut Joe Acaba sign autographs for Lori Meggs.

Jody Singer, left, Marshall deputy director, and Bobby Watkins, director of Marshall's Human Exploration and Development Operations Office visit the POIC April 24 as new procedures increasing the efficiency of the facility were introduced in anticipation of doubling the science performed in orbit.

UAH ENGINEERING STUDENT ROBERT HILLAN TALKS TO SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS ABOUT HIS WINNING 3-D PRINTED TOOL DESIGNED FOR USE ON ISS, AND IS INTERVIEWED BY LOCAL MEDIA

ASTRONAUT JEFF WILLIAMS IS INTERVIEWED BY MSFC COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIST DURING WILLIAMS EXPEDITION 48/49 CREW VISIT TO MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque hanging ceremony and to provide valuable feedback of their on-orbit science investigations with the Payload Operations and Integration Center team. Chris Buckley is awarded privilege of hanging Mission 54 placque, shown here with Astronaut Mark Vande Hei (L) and Astronaut Joe Acaba

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque hanging ceremony and to provide valuable feedback of their on-orbit science investigations with the Payload Operations and Integration Center team. Astronauts Mark Vande Hei (L) and Astronaut Joe Acaba sign autographs for Samantha Gurley.

Douglas Loverro, NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and Marshall Center Director Jody Singer participate in a Town Hall with Marshall Space Flight Center employees

Army Lt. Gen. James Dickinson, right, commanding general of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, speaks with NASA astronaut and current International Space Station crew member Andrew Morgan, an Army colonel, during an Oct. 8 downlink to the Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

Penny Pettigrew is an International Space Station Payload Communications Manager, or PAYCOM, in the Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Penny Pettigrew chats in real time with a space station crew member conducting an experiment in microgravity some 250 miles overhead. The Payload Operations Integration Center cadre monitor science communications on station 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days per year.

LISA PRENDERGAST HANGS INCREMENT 44 PLAQUE, BECKY GRIMALDI, ASTRONAUTS KIMIYA YUI, AND KJELL LINDGREN ALSO PICTURED

Official group photo of the new class of PODs (Payload Operations Directors) for 2019, taken in building 4663 Payload Operations Center. (L to R) Stacey Steele, Michael Vigo, Dr. Ian Howley, Luke Bingaman, Jennifer McMillian, Luke Mays, Carlos Barreto, David Nicholas Benjamin

PANORAMIC VIEW OF PAYLOAD OPERATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER, PCA1, BLDG. 4663…UPDATED 10/21/15

Douglas Loverro, NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and Marshall Center Director Jody Singer participate in a Town Hall with Marshall Space Flight Center employees

LISA PRENDERGAST HANGS INCREMENT 44 PLAQUE, BECKY GRIMALDI, ASTRONAUTS KIMIYA YUI, AND KJELL LINDGREN ALSO PICTURED

Expedition 59 Astronaut David Saint-Jaques visits Marshall Space Flight Center's Payload Operations Integration Center where Operations Controller Halley Chang hangs the Expedition 59 plaque with the help of Timeline Change Officer Kira Thomas along with David Saint-Jaques.

NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and Marshall Center Director Jody Singer participate in the hanging of a new International Space Station flag out side of the Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC). Also participating were employees of the support center and the Payload Operations Integration Center.

Douglas Loverro, NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and Marshall Center Director Jody Singer participate in a Town Hall with Marshall Space Flight Center employees

Douglas Loverro, NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and Marshall Center Director Jody Singer participate in a Town Hall with Marshall Space Flight Center employees

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque hanging ceremony and to provide valuable feedback of their on-orbit science investigations with the Payload Operations and Integration Center team. Astronauts Mark Vande Hei (L) and Astronaut Joe Acaba sign autographs for Kassandra Stephens

Expedition 59 Astronaut David Saint-Jaques visits Marshall Space Flight Center's Payload Operations Integration Center where Operations Controller Halley Chang hangs the Expedition 59 plaque with the help of Timeline Change Officer Kira Thomas along with David Saint-Jaques.

NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and Marshall Center Director Jody Singer participate in the hanging of a new International Space Station flag out side of the Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC). Also participating were employees of the support center and the Payload Operations Integration Center.

Douglas Loverro, NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and Marshall Center Director Jody Singer participate in a Town Hall with Marshall Space Flight Center employees