Photo Date: 2021-12-06 Subject: NASA announced its 2021 astronaut candidate class on Dec. 6, 2021. The 10 candidates, pictured here in an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are Nichole Ayers, Christopher Williams, Luke Delaney, Jessica Wittner, Anil Menon, Marcos Berríos, Jack Hathaway, Christina Birch, Deniz Burnham, and Andre Douglas. NASA’s new astronaut candidates will begin about two years of training in January 2022, after which they could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on Artemis missions to the Moon on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Location: Ellington Hangar 135 Photographer: James Blair
Photo Date: 2021-12-06 Subject: NASA announced its 2021 astronaut candidate class on Dec. 6, 2021. The 10 candidates, pictured here in an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are Nichole Ayers, Christopher Williams, Luke Delaney, Jessica Wittner, Anil Menon, Marcos Berríos, Jack Hathaway, Christina Birch, Deniz Burnham, and Andre Douglas. NASA’s new astronaut candidates will begin about two years of training in January 2022, after which they could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on Artemis missions to the Moon on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Location: Ellington Hangar 135 Photographer: James Blair
Photo Date: 2021-12-06 Subject: NASA announced its 2021 astronaut candidate class on Dec. 6, 2021. The 10 candidates, pictured here in an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are Nichole Ayers, Christopher Williams, Luke Delaney, Jessica Wittner, Anil Menon, Marcos Berríos, Jack Hathaway, Christina Birch, Deniz Burnham, and Andre Douglas. NASA’s new astronaut candidates will begin about two years of training in January 2022, after which they could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on Artemis missions to the Moon on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Location: Ellington Hangar 135 Photographer: James Blair
Photo Date: 2021-12-06 Subject: NASA announced its 2021 astronaut candidate class on Dec. 6, 2021. The 10 candidates, pictured here in an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are Nichole Ayers, Christopher Williams, Luke Delaney, Jessica Wittner, Anil Menon, Marcos Berríos, Jack Hathaway, Christina Birch, Deniz Burnham, and Andre Douglas. NASA’s new astronaut candidates will begin about two years of training in January 2022, after which they could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on Artemis missions to the Moon on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Location: Ellington Hangar 135 Photographer: James Blair
Photo Date: 2021-12-06 Subject: NASA announced its 2021 astronaut candidate class on Dec. 6, 2021. The 10 candidates, pictured here in an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are Nichole Ayers, Christopher Williams, Luke Delaney, Jessica Wittner, Anil Menon, Marcos Berríos, Jack Hathaway, Christina Birch, Deniz Burnham, and Andre Douglas. NASA’s new astronaut candidates will begin about two years of training in January 2022, after which they could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on Artemis missions to the Moon on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Location: Ellington Hangar 135 Photographer: James Blair
Photo Date: 2021-12-06 Subject: NASA announced its 2021 astronaut candidate class on Dec. 6, 2021. The 10 candidates, pictured here in an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are Nichole Ayers, Christopher Williams, Luke Delaney, Jessica Wittner, Anil Menon, Marcos Berríos, Jack Hathaway, Christina Birch, Deniz Burnham, and Andre Douglas. NASA’s new astronaut candidates will begin about two years of training in January 2022, after which they could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on Artemis missions to the Moon on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Location: Ellington Hangar 135 Photographer: James Blair
Photo Date: 2021-12-06 Subject: NASA announced its 2021 astronaut candidate class on Dec. 6, 2021. The 10 candidates, pictured here in an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are Nichole Ayers, Christopher Williams, Luke Delaney, Jessica Wittner, Anil Menon, Marcos Berríos, Jack Hathaway, Christina Birch, Deniz Burnham, and Andre Douglas. NASA’s new astronaut candidates will begin about two years of training in January 2022, after which they could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on Artemis missions to the Moon on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Location: Ellington Hangar 135 Photographer: James Blair
Photo Date: 2021-12-06 Subject: NASA announced its 2021 astronaut candidate class on Dec. 6, 2021. The 10 candidates, pictured here in an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are Nichole Ayers, Christopher Williams, Luke Delaney, Jessica Wittner, Anil Menon, Marcos Berríos, Jack Hathaway, Christina Birch, Deniz Burnham, and Andre Douglas. NASA’s new astronaut candidates will begin about two years of training in January 2022, after which they could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on Artemis missions to the Moon on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Location: Ellington Hangar 135 Photographer: James Blair
jsc2025e076418 (09/22/2025) NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. Imelda Muller was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class. She reported for duty in September 2025.
jsc2025e076416 (09/22/2025) --- NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. Rebecca “Becky” Lawler was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class. She reported for duty in September 2025.
jsc2025e076417 (09/22/2025) --- NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. Rebecca “Becky” Lawler was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class. She reported for duty in September 2025.
jsc2025e076411 (09/22/2025) --- NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. Lauren Edgar was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class. She reported for duty in September 2025.
jsc2025e076420 (09/22/2025) --- NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. Katherine Spies was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class. She reported for duty in September 2025.
jsc2025e076410 (09/22/2025) --- Photographic coverage of NASA 2025 Astronaut Candidate (ASCAN) Announcement Ceremony
jsc2025e076415 (09/22/2025) --- NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. Erin Overcash was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class. She reported for duty in September 2025.
jsc2025e076419 (09/22/2025) --- NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. Erin Overcash was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class. She reported for duty in September 2025.
jsc2025e076412 (09/22/2025) --- NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. Cameron Jones was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class. He reported for duty in September 2025.
jsc2025e076413 (09/22/2025) --- NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. Cameron Jones was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class. He reported for duty in September 2025.
jsc2025e076414 (09/22/2025) --- NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. Yuri Kubo was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class. He reported for duty in September 2025.
jsc2025e076409 (09/22/2025) --- NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. Ben Bailey was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class. He reported for duty in September 2025.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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)
PHOTO DATE: 10-21-10 LOCATION: Bldg 2N SUBJECT: STS-133 crew press conference PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair
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
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
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
At 12:40 p.m. EST, Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5 day mission to the Moon. Orion will be recovered by NASA’s Landing and Recovery team, U.S. Navy and Department of Defense partners aboard the USS Portland.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
(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.
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.
PHOTO DATE: 03-23-10 LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, CCTII SUBJECT: STS-133 crew during CCTII Post Insertion/Deorbit Prep training PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair
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
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
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
Date: 03-13-12 Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS Airlock Subject: Expedition 32 (Soyuz 31) crew members Aki Hoshide, Sunita Williams and Joe Acaba during ISS EVA planning and preparation Photographer: James Blair
Orion’s three main orange and white parachutes help a representative model of the spacecraft descend through sky above Arizona, where NASA engineers tested the parachute system on Sept. 13, 2017 at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Yuma. NASA is qualifying Orion’s parachutes for missions with astronauts.. .During this test, engineers replicated a situation in which Orion must abort off the Space Launch System rocket and bypasses part of its normal parachute deployment sequence that typically helps the spacecraft slow down during its descent to Earth after deep space missions. The capsule was dropped out of a C-17 aircraft at more than 4.7 miles in altitude and allowed to free fall for 20 seconds, longer than ever before, to produce high aerodynamic pressure before only its pilot and main parachutes were deployed, testing whether they could perform as expected under extreme loads. Orion’s full parachute system includes 11 total parachutes -- three forward bay cover parachutes and two drogue parachutes, along with three pilot parachutes that help pull out the spacecraft’s three mains.
jsc2021e009539 (March 3, 2021) --- SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts (from left) Matthias Maurer and Raja Chari are pictured during a training session at the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Chief training officer John Ray works in the flight control support 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-038824 (9 March 2010) --- NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, STS-131 mission specialist, poses for photos during the press day event for the scheduled April mission. NASA astronauts Alan Poindexter and James Dutton will serve as the mission commander and pilot, respectively. They will be joined by astronauts Clayton Anderson, Mastracchio, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger and Stephanie Wilson, along with Naoko Yamazaki of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, all mission specialists.
PHOTO DATE: 10-21-10 LOCATION: Bldg 2N SUBJECT: STS-133 crew press conference PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair
Date: 05-13-13 Location: Ellington, 276 Subject: T-38 flight prep at EFD for Steve Swanson (Exp. 39/40) and Reid Wiseman (Exp. 40/41) Photographer: James Blair/NASA
JSC2010-E-020620 (9 Feb. 2010) --- NASA astronauts Steve Lindsey (center), STS-133 commander; Eric Boe, pilot; and Nicole Stott, mission specialist, are pictured during a food tasting session in the Habitability and Environmental Factors Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Date: 10-24-13 Location: Bldg 7, SSATA Subject: Support for SSATA Crew Training & Certification - ISS Increment 39 Crew Member Steve Swanson Photograher: James Blair
JSC2010-E-185503 (12 Nov. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, STS-134 mission specialist, attired in a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, awaits the start of a spacewalk training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
jsc2018e010861 (March 5, 2018) --- Expedition 56-57 crew member Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA is suited up and lowered into the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory for spacewalk training in Houston, Texas.
PHOTO DATE: 10-21-10 LOCATION: Bldg 2N SUBJECT: STS-133 crew press conference PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair
JSC2009-E-214338 (25 Sept. 2009) --- NASA astronauts James P. Dutton Jr., STS-131 pilot; and Stephanie Wilson, mission specialist, 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 the entire team for dealing with space station elements. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, mission specialist, is visible in the background.
NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio gets help putting on a spacesuit at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to train for spacewalks.
Date: 08-19-13 Location: Boeing Houston Facility Subject: NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden visiting the Boeing CST-100 facility Photographer: James Blair/NASA
Boeing CFT crew member Mike Fincke with backup Barry "Butch" Wilmore during Boeing CFT/59S BU ISS EVA Maintenance 1 PRF training.
JSC2011-E-028482 (24 March 2011) --- NASA astronauts Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus, both STS-135 mission specialists, attired in training versions of their shuttle launch and entry suits, participate in a training session in the Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT) in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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
Date: 01-08-16 Location: Bldg 16N, SES Cupola Subject: Expedition 49 crew members Kate Rubins, Takuya Onishi and Shane Kimbrough during ROBO FS training. Photographer: James Blair