The Boeing Mission Simulator is moved to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The simulator is a full-scale mockup of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. The simulator will be used to train crews to fly the spacecraft.

The Boeing Mission Simulator is moved to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The simulator is a full-scale mockup of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. The simulator will be used to train crews to fly the spacecraft.

From left to right, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson, and NASA astronaut Nicole Mann pose for the official crew portrait for Boeing’s Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station, part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

Astromaterials processor Mari Montoya shows a hand heart while working in the OSIRIS-REx canister glovebox at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Montoya was sweeping asteroid material on the avionics deck of the OSIRIS-REx canister and was so deep in concentration that she didn’t realize the dust had formed the shape of a heart until her teammate on the other side of the glovebox pointed it out.

The official crew portrait for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. Left is Suni Williams, who will serve as the pilot, and to the right is Barry “Butch” Wilmore, spacecraft commander.

The Boeing Mission Simulator is moved to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The simulator is a full-scale mockup of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. The simulator will be used to train crews to fly the spacecraft.

Earth Observation taken by the Expedition 43 crew. Earth observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 43 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as North Africa.

JSC2010-E-044344 (29 March 2010) --- NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, STS-133 mission specialist, participates in a training session in an International Space Station mock-up/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

jsc2023e054221 (Aug. 12, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-10 Pilot Nichole Ayers prepares for spacewalk training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

NASA, Department of Defense personnel from Detachment 3 out of Patrick Air Force Base, and the Mobile Diving Salvage Unit based in San Diego conduct a testing session at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston on Dec. 5, 2012 to evaluate procedures, mockups, and prototype hardware used to train personnel in recovery of the Orion crew module and the forward bay cover for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

NASA 2021 Astronaut Candidate Announcement at Ellington Field. Photo Date: December 6, 2021. Location: Ellington Field - Hangar 135. Photographer: Robert Markowitz.

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JSC2011-E-065977 (10 July 2011) --- STS-135 lead flight director Kwatsi Alibaruho (right) and Public Affairs Office moderator Rob Navias are pictured during a flight day three mission status briefing at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Photo credit: NASA

JSC2010-E-080441 (14 May 2010) --- Flight director Richard Jones is pictured at his console in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center during launch countdown activities a few hundred miles away in Florida, site of space shuttle Atlantis? STS-132 launch. Liftoff was on time at 2:20 p.m. (EDT) on May 14, 2010 from launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

The Virtual Reality Lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston provides real-time graphics and motion simulators to replicate the space environment. Commercial Crew Astronaut Suni Williams practices spacewalking in preparation for a mission to the International Space Station in 2019. Williams is assigned to Boeing’s first operational mission after the company’s test flight with crew.

NASA Astronaut Christina Hammock Koch will be making her second flight to space on the Artemis II mission, serving as a mission specialist. Koch served as flight engineer aboard the space station for Expedition 59, 60, and 61. Koch set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalks.

JSC2009-E-214324 (25 Sept. 2009) --- NASA astronauts James P. Dutton Jr., STS-131 pilot; and Stephanie Wilson, mission specialist, are pictured during a training session in the virtual reality lab in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center to train for some of their duties aboard the space shuttle and space station.

PHOTO DATE: 01-08-09 LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - CCT II Mockup SUBJECT: STS-128 crew during CCT BAILOUT with Expedition astronaut Nicole Stott. PHOTOGRAPHER: Devin Boldt

Date: 03-08-12 Location: Bldg 5, SSTF Subject: Expedition 32 (Soyuz 31) crew membesr Aki Hoshide, Sunita Williams and Joseph Acaba during JAXA's HTV sim, FE Rendezvous/Deployment in building 5's space station training facility with Robo instructor Melanie Miller. Photographer: James Blair

JSC2010-E-046544 (2 April 2010) --- NASA astronauts Tony Antonelli (left foreground), STS-132 pilot; Garrett Reisman (left background), Michael Good and Steve Bowen, all mission specialists, participate in a training session in an International Space Station mock-up/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

JSC2014-E-067735 (10 July 2014) --- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (left), Expedition 43/44 flight engineer and Expedition 45/46 commander; and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, Expedition 43-46 flight engineer, take a break from training at NASA?s Johnson Space Center to pose for a portrait. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Stafford

PHOTO DATE(S): 08/27/09 (Satcher) @ 0900 LOCATION: Bldg 7/SSATA Chamber SUBJECT: SSATA Crew Training and EMU Verification for STS-129 crew member Robert Satcher during suited dry run. Test Director: Cristina Anchondo. PHOTOGRAPHER: BLAIR

Gateway’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) arrives in Mesa, Arizona, after traveling from Italy, where Thales Alenia Space fabricated its primary structure. Delivered by cargo aircraft to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, HALO will be transported to Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilbert for final outfitting.

Date: 03-09-12 Location: Ellington Field Subject: Expedition 35 (Soyuz 33S) crew member Tom Marshburn preparing for his T-38 fligh with NASA pilot Thomas Parent. Photographer: James Blair

(jsc2022e089789) (Nov.25, 2022) During day 10 of the of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, flight controllers monitor the progress of the Distant Retrograde Orbit Insertion (DRI) burn. The Distant Retrograde Orbit Insertion (DRI) burn, inserted Orion into a Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) where at it's furthest distance Orion will be nearly 270,000 miles from Earth.

Commercial Crew Astronaut Suni Williams practices spacewalking in the Virtual Reality Lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The training provides real-time graphics and motion simulators to replicate the space environment. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is working with Boeing and SpaceX to return human spaceflight launches to the United States in 2019. Williams is assigned to Boeing’s first operational mission after the company’s test flight with crew.

Date: 08-23-13 Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS Airlock Mockup Subject: Expedition 38 crew members Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata during INC-38 ISS EVA Prep & Post #2 training in the ISS Airlock mockup with instructors Megan Murphey, Michael Dino and Tamara York. In addition, non-assigned astronaut Jeanette Epps is participating Photographer: James Blair

JSC2010-E-024581 (11 Feb. 2010) --- NASA astronauts Mark Kelly (left), STS-134 commander; and Gregory H. Johnson, pilot, attired in training versions of their shuttle launch and entry suits, prepare for a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

jsc2021e009510 (March 3, 2021) --- SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts (from left) Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron are pictured during a training session at the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

ASCAN Group 23 (Class of 2021) Photo. Photo Date: March 7, 2022. Location: Building 8, Room 183 - Photo Studio. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz & Josh Valcarcel.

jsc2017e114927 (09-06-17) --- During water survival training in 2017 at NASA Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, NASA astronaut candidate Raja Chari is guided through training by divers. Photo Credit: (NASA/James Blair)

jsc2022e090743 (Dec. 1, 2022): Public Affairs Officer Shaneequa Vereen speaks on camera in Houston’s Mission Control Center as the Orion spacecraft departs its distant retrograde orbit on flight day 16 of the Artemis I mission – one of the steps needed to bring the spacecraft home from the Moon. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

PHOTO DATE: 10-21-10 LOCATION: Bldg 2N SUBJECT: STS-133 crew press conference PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair

Official Astronaut Portrait of STS-133 crew member Mike Barratt. Photo Date: July 13, 2010. Location: Building 8 - Room 272, Photo Studio. Photographer: Robert Markowitz.

JSC2010-E-046474 (2 April 2010) --- NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, STS-132 mission specialist, participates in an EVA tile repair training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Date: 01-18-13 Location: Bldg 16, SES Dome Subject: Expedition 39 (Soyuz 37) crew members Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata during FF T&C/R MINI SIM 2 training in the building 16 dome with instructor Jeffery "Tux" Tuxhorn. Photogapher: James Blair

PHOTO DATE: 11-08-12 LOCATION: Bldg. 17, Rm 1070 - Food Lab SUBJECT: Expedition 41/42 crew members Barry Wilmore, Terry Virts and Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti during their food tasting in Bldg. 17. PHOTOGRAPHER: BILL STAFFORD

Extravehicular flight controller Jaclyn Kagey, left, and Tess Caswell work in the JETT 5 flight control room during the JETT 5 field test. JETT 5 was a week-long field test in the lunar-like landscape of San Francisco Volcanic Field near Flagstaff, Arizona while a team of flight controllers and scientists at Johnson monitor and guide their activities. Credit NASA/James Blair

JSC2010-E-042099 (23 March 2010) --- NASA astronauts Michael Barratt (foreground) and Alvin Drew, both STS-133 mission specialists, participate in a post insertion/de-orbit training session on the middeck of the crew compartment trainer (CCT-2) in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

JSC2009-E-224126 (20 Oct. 2009) --- Astronaut Garrett Reisman, STS-132 mission specialist, attired in a training version of his shuttle launch and entry suit, awaits the start of a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA?s Johnson Space Center.

JSC2010-E-025800 (22 Feb. 2010) --- NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) director Michael L. Coats (left) addresses a large crowd of well-wishers at the STS-130 crew return ceremony on Feb. 22, 2010 at Ellington Field near JSC. Also pictured (from the second left) are NASA astronauts George Zamka, commander; Terry Virts, pilot; Kathryn Hire, Stephen Robinson, Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken, all mission specialists.

PHOTO DATE: 07-13-10 LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 26 crew members Cady Coleman and Dmitri Kondratyev during their docking timeline training. PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair

jsc2022e090759 (Dec. 1, 2022): Flight controllers Steve Sides and Brian Crisp at the instrumentation and communications officer console in Houston’s Mission Control Center observe the Orion spacecraft under the direction of Flight Director Rick LaBrode. The spacecraft departed its distant retrograde orbit on flight day 16 of the Artemis I mission – one of the steps needed to bring the spacecraft home from the Moon. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

Expedition 36 official portrait. Crew members are: (Soyuz 34) – Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin, Chris Cassidy; (Soyuz 35) – Fedor Yurchikhin, Luca Parmitano, Karen Nyberg. (Also known as Expedition 36/37). Photo Date: July 31, 2012. Location: Building 8, Rm. 183 - Photo Studio. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

jsc2022e021201 (March 5, 2022) --- NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei talks to media and answers social media questions at NASA's Johnson Space Center less than a week after returning to Earth and completing a 355-day mission aboard the International Space Station.

PHOTO DATE: 01-21-10 LOCATION: Bldg 2, rm 122 SUBJECT: Expedition 23 press conference PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair

A group of scientists are gathered around a table covered in large maps in the Science Evaluation Room (SER) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston during the JETT 5 field test. JETT 5 was a week-long field test in the lunar-like landscape of San Francisco Volcanic Field near Flagstaff, Arizona while a team of flight controllers and scientists at Johnson monitor and guide their activities. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

jsc2023e080760 (Dec. 15, 2023) --- NASA astronaut Mike Fincke conducts training for a spacewalk at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford

JSC2009-E-214328 (25 Sept. 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, STS-131 mission specialist, uses the virtual reality lab in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center to train for some of her duties aboard the space shuttle and space station. This type of computer interface, paired with virtual reality training hardware and software, helps to prepare the entire team for dealing with space station elements.

NASA Astronaut Nicole Mann smiles during a training inside the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility to prepare for her upcoming journey to the International Space Station as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission. Credit: NASA/James Blair

jsc2019e070461 (12/13/2019) --- A preflight view taken of the ISS Universal Waste Management System, Unit 1 during EMI/EMC Testing. This technology provides additional waste disposal points to the International Space Station (ISS) and aids in planning for future exploration missions including Deep Space Gateway (DSG). A smaller, more comfortable and more reliable waste-disposal method allows the crew to focus on other activities and enables further exploration in space.

JSC2011-E-047777 (23 May 2011) --- Flight director Rick LaBrode is pictured at his console in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center during STS-134 flight day eight activities. Photo credit: NASA

Gateway’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) arrives in Mesa, Arizona, after traveling from Italy, where Thales Alenia Space fabricated its primary structure. Delivered by cargo aircraft to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, HALO will be transported to Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilbert for final outfitting.

jsc2023e018321 (April 3, 2023) – The Artemis II crew cheers with the crowd while attending the NCAA Men’s Final Four national championship game at NRG Stadium in Houston. The crew is comprised of Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen. The four astronauts will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis. From left: NASA astronauts Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Commander Reid Wiseman, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen.

Date: 07-16-13 Location: Bldg 30 South, FCR-1 Subject: Expedition 36 ISS flight controllers on console during EVA #23 with Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano. Photographer: James Blair

Date: 10-30-13 Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS Mockup Subject: Expedition 41/42 crew member and RSA cosmonaut Elena Serova during rack and hatch skills training in ISS mockups. Photographer: James Blair

JSC2011-E-043692 (29 April 2011) --- NASA astronaut Rex Walheim, STS-135 mission specialist, signs his name on hardware during an ingress/egress timeline training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Photo credit: NASA

JSC2010-E-014953 (28 Jan. 2010) --- NASA astronauts Piers Sellers, STS-132 mission specialist; and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 23/24 flight engineer, use the virtual reality lab in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center to train for some of their duties aboard the space shuttle and space station. This type of computer interface, paired with virtual reality training hardware and software, helps to prepare crew members for dealing with space station elements.

Date: 01-22-14 Location: Bldg 5, SSATA Subject: EPS Major Case with Expedition 41 crew (39S/Suraev, Wiseman and Gerst, along with 40S/Wilmore). Photographer: James Blair

JSC2009-E-284901 (15 Dec. 2009) --- NASA astronauts Gregory H. Johnson (left), STS-134 pilot; and Michael Fincke, mission specialist, participate in an EVA Thermal Protection System (TPS) overview training session in the TPS/ Precision Air Bearing Facility in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA?s Johnson Space Center.

Tim Crain, chief technology officer and co-founder, Intuitive Machines, participates in a news conference Feb. 23, 2024, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss the company’s Nova-C lander, called Odysseus, and its successful soft landing on the Moon Feb. 22, 2024. The mission is the first landing under NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, and the first American lunar landing in more than 50 years.

PHOTO DATE: 06-25-09 LOCATION: Bldg 9NW SUBJECT: JAXA veteran astronaut and Expedition 22 crew member Soichi Noguichi with JAXA's two new astronaut candidates Takuya Onishi & Kimiya Yui PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair

Date: 12-17-13 Location: Bldg 17, rm 1070 Food Lab Subject: Soyuz 45 crew members, Tim Kopra and ESA astronaut Tim Peake during food tasting in the JSC Food Lab Photographer: James Blair

Date: 03-20-12 Location: Bldg 2, Briefing Room Subject: Expedition 32/33 Crew News Conference. Photograher: James Blair

PHOTO DATE(S): 08/27/09 (Satcher) @ 0900 LOCATION: Bldg 7/SSATA Chamber SUBJECT: SSATA Crew Training and EMU Verification for STS-129 crew member Robert Satcher during suited dry run. Test Director: Cristina Anchondo. PHOTOGRAPHER: BLAIR

PHOTO DATE(S): 08/27/09 (Satcher) @ 0900 LOCATION: Bldg 7/SSATA Chamber SUBJECT: SSATA Crew Training and EMU Verification for STS-129 crew member Robert Satcher during suited dry run. Test Director: Cristina Anchondo. PHOTOGRAPHER: BLAIR

jsc2023e018404 (April 3, 2023) -- NASA astronaut Christina Koch shakes the hand of NASA Administrator Bill Nelson after being announced as one of four members of the Artemis II during a Monday, April 3, 2023, news conference at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The crew is comprised of Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen. The four astronauts will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis.

PHOTO DATE: 06-25-09 LOCATION: Bldg 9NW SUBJECT: JAXA veteran astronaut and Expedition 22 crew member Soichi Noguichi with JAXA's two new astronaut candidates Takuya Onishi & Kimiya Yui PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair

Angela Garcia, Artemis II science officer and exploration geologist, demonstrates how to use a rock hammer and chisel to dislodge a rock sample from a large boulder during the Artemis II field geology training in Iceland.

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PHOTO DATE: 06-26-09 LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, FFT SUBJECT: STS-128 crew during space station ingress/egress timeline training with instructors Bob Behrendsen and Glenn Johnson PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair

Date: 02-13-12.Location: Bldg 2, LBJ Room.Subject: Bill Anders interview with BBC's James Fox & Visit to Apollo Film Vault..Photographer: James Blair

Date: 03-27-15 Location: Bldg 30 South, FCR-1 Subject: Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords with Astronaut Mike Fossum and JSC Center Director Ellen Ochoa Photographer: James Blair / NASA

JSC2010-E-024590 (11 Feb. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Gregory H. Johnson, STS-134 pilot, dons a training version of his shuttle launch and entry suit in preparation for a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. United Space Alliance suit technicians Daniel Palmer (right foreground) and George Brittingham assisted Johnson.

JSC2010-E-196891 (20 Dec. 2010) --- NASA astronauts Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus (mostly obscured), both STS-135 mission specialists, attired in training versions of their shuttle launch and entry suits, participate in a post insertion/de-orbit training session on the flight deck of the crew compartment trainer (CCT-2) in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Date: 07-26-12 Location: Bldg 2, Press Conf. Room Subject: Expedition 34 press conference with crew members Novitskiy, Tarelkin and Kevin Ford Photographer: James Blair

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

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 instructors WORK ORDER: 02250-DCB-Exp 29-30 Training_07-13-11 PHOTOGRAPHER: Devin Boldt

JSC2011-E-029110 (25 March 2011) --- NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff, STS-134 mission specialist, gets help donning a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit in preparation for a spacewalk training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at the Sonny Carter Training Facility near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Date: 04-18-14 Location: Bldg 2N, Press Conf. Room Subject: ISS Program Status and Spacewalk Preview Briefing with PAO Moderator Dan Huot, ISS Flight Director, Brian Smith and Lead Spacewalk Officer, Glenda Brown Photographer: James Blair

Date: 07-26-12 Location: Bldg 2, Press Conf. Room Subject: Expedition 34 press conference with crew members Novitskiy, Tarelkin and Kevin Ford Photographer: James Blair

PHOTO DATE: 07-13-10 LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 26 crew members Cady Coleman and Dmitri Kondratyev during their docking timeline training. PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair

A view of the Holuhraun lava field from the Bárðarbunga volcano, located in Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland. The image shows the rubbly textured basaltic lava flow that has been partially buried by wind-blown sediment. Iceland has been used as a planetary analog for geology training for astronauts since the Apollo missions because of the geologic similarities to the Moon.

(jsc2022e089777) (Nov.25, 2022) During flight day 10 of the of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, Lead Flight Director Rick LaBrode has a thumbs up as he monitors the progress of the Distant Retrograde Orbit Insertion (DRI) burn. The Distant Retrograde Orbit Insertion (DRI) burn, inserted Orion into a Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) where at it's furthest distance Orion will be nearly 270,000 miles from Earth.

PHOTO DATE: 03-29-09 LOCATION: Ellington - Hangar 990 SUBJECT: STS-119 crew return ceremony. Photograph s of crew arriving, overall views, individual views of each astronaut, other special speakers, interaction with crowd, signing autographs. PHOTOGRAPHER: Devin Boldt

JSC2011-E-050763 (2 June 2011) --- NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) director Michael L. Coats (left) and STS-134 crew members are pictured during the STS-134 crew return ceremony on June 2, 2011 at Ellington Field near JSC. Pictured from second left are NASA astronauts Mark Kelly, commander; Greg H. Johnson, pilot; Michael Fincke, European Space Agency?s Roberto Vittori, NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel and Greg Chamitoff, all mission specialists. Photo credit: NASA

Astronaut Candidate Individual Portrait, Jack Hathaway - ASCAN Class of 2021. Photo Date: December 3, 2021. Location: Building 8, Room 183 - Photo Studio. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

JSC2010-E-086277 (19 May 2010) --- The members of the STS-132/ULF-4 ISS Orbit 1 flight control team pose for a group portrait in the space station flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Flight director Holly Ridings holds the STS-132 mission logo.

The Virtual Reality Lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston provides real-time graphics and motion simulators to replicate the space environment. Commercial Crew Astronaut Mike Hopkins practices spacewalking in preparation for a mission to the International Space Station. Hopkins is assigned to SpaceX’s first operational mission after the company’s test flight with crew.

Work Request Description: Photographic coverage of ASCAN 2021 Class Wilderness Survival Training at Ft. Rucker, Alabama

PHOTO DATE: 03-23-10 LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, CCTII SUBJECT: STS-133 crew during CCTII Post Insertion/Deorbit Prep training PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair

Expedition 31 crew member Joe Acaba during SSATA Crew Training in the SSATA Chamber. Photo Date: October 19, 2011. Location: Building 7 - SSATA Chamber. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2009-E-286843 (21 Dec. 2009) --- Astronauts Terry Virts (right), STS-130 pilot; and Stephen Robinson, mission specialist, participate in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

JSC2010-E-166827 (24 Sept. 2010) --- Attired in training versions of their shuttle launch and entry suits, NASA astronauts Eric Boe (left), STS-133 pilot; Alvin Drew and Tim Kopra, both mission specialists, await the start of a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

jsc2023e000132_alt (Jan. 6, 2023) --- NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-8 Commander Matthew Dominick poses for a portrait at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

STS-133/ULF5 Ascent and Entry flight control team photo with Flight Director's Tony Ceccacci (Entry) and Richard Jones (Ascent). Photo Date: March 08, 2011. Location: Building 30 south - WFCR. Photographer: Robert Markowitz.

Astronaut Candidate Class of 2021. Photo Date: December 3, 2021. Location: JSC Mall. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2011-E-003204 (18 Jan. 2011) --- NASA astronauts Rex Walheim, STS-135 mission specialist; and Mike Fossum (foreground), Expedition 28 flight engineer and Expedition 29 commander; use the virtual reality lab in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center to train for some of their duties aboard the space shuttle and space station. This type of computer interface, paired with virtual reality training hardware and software, helps to prepare crew members for dealing with space station elements. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

JSC2010-E-094406 (18 Dec. 2009) --- NASA astronaut E. Michael Fincke, mission specialist. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Date: 11-07-12 Location: NBL - Pool Topside Subject: Expedition 40 crew members (Soyuz 39) Reid Wiseman and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst during INC-40 ISS EVA ORU PRF 41027. Photographer: James Blair