
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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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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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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.

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.

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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

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

Flight Director Zebulon Scoville, left, and team monitor the JETT 5 extravehicular activities from a mock Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. 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

Expedition 34 astronaut crew members Chris Hadfield and Tom Marshburn during INC-34/CB ISS EVA 2 91027. Photo Date: December 7, 2011. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

jsc2021e048160 (Oct. 26, 2021) --- SpaceX Crew-3 astronaut Matthias Maurer from ESA (European Space Agency) boards NASA's Gulfstream V research aircraft preparing to depart from Ellington Field in Houston to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. He and fellow Crew-3 astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron, all from NASA, plan to launch on Oct. 31, 2021, aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance to the International Space Station for a six-month mission.

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STS-135 Crew Return Ceremony to Ellington Field. Photo Date: July 22, 2011. Location: Ellington Field - Hangar 990. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

jsc2024e022817 March 26, 2024 -- NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston hosted a Tuesday, March 26, visit by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who visited NASA’s Mission Control Center, spoke with native Texan and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara aboard the International Space Station, and introduced the new members of the Texas Space Commission. Abbott was joined by NASA Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, Texas Representative Greg Bonnen and other state and space industry leaders.

Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is making his first flight to space as a mission specialist on the Artemis II mission. He was one of two recruits selected by CSA in May 2009 through the third Canadian Astronaut Recruitment Campaign and has served in many roles supporting human spaceflight. Hansen has served as Capcom in NASA's Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center and in 2017, became the first Canadian to be entrusted with leading a NASA astronaut class, leading the training of astronaut candidates from the United States and Canada. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

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NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen were announced Monday, April 3 as the four astronauts who 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. The crew assignments are as follows: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist 1 Christina Koch, Mission Specialist 2 Jeremy Hansen. This image was modified to include CSA’s insignia on the center front of Hansen’s spacesuit. The insignia was not available at the time of the photo. It will be on Hansen’s suit for Artemis II.

JSC2010-E-106911 (28 June 2010) --- NASA's Robonaut 2, or R2 for short, who will hitch a ride with the STS-133 crew members to travel to the International Space Station for a tour of duty beginning this fall, ?poses? near a Destiny lab trainer with the crew during a break in training. Clockwise from lower right, R2 is flanked by NASA astronauts Tim Kopra and Nicole Stott, both mission specialists; Eric Boe, pilot; Michael Barratt and Alvin Drew, both mission specialists, and Steve Lindsey, commander. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating on the Moon following the first successful delivery of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. Experts from NASA and Intuitive Machines hosted a news conference Feb. 23, 2024, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss the soft landing of the company’s Nova-C lander, called Odysseus. Participants in the briefing included (L-R): Steve Altemus, chief executive officer and co-founder, Intuitive Machines; Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for Exploration, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington; Tim Crain, chief technology officer and co-founder, Intuitive Machines; and Prasun Desai, deputy associate administrator, Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. Photo Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

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

jsc2021e048157 (Oct. 26, 2021) --- SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts (from left) Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron, all from NASA, with Matthias Maurer from ESA (European Space Agency) are at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas. The quartet were preparing to depart from Houston aboard NASA's Gulfstream V research aircraft to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The foursome plan to launch on Oct. 31, 2021, aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance to the International Space Station for a six-month mission.

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

For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating on the Moon following the first successful delivery of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. Experts from NASA and Intuitive Machines hosted a news conference Feb. 23, 2024, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss the soft landing of the company’s Nova-C lander, called Odysseus. Participants in the briefing included (L-R): Steve Altemus, chief executive officer and co-founder, Intuitive Machines; Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for Exploration, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington; Tim Crain, chief technology officer and co-founder, Intuitive Machines; and Prasun Desai, deputy associate administrator, Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. Photo Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

Expedition 32 crew member Sunita Williams during her EMU Training and Certification. Photo Date: September 8, 2011. Location: Building 7 - SSATA Chamber. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

jsc2023e054877 (Sept. 28, 2023) --- NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is greeted by Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche following his arrival at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas, aboard a NASA jet. Rubio had just completed a 371-day mission aboard the International Space Station the day before.

jsc2021e013795_alt (April 20, 2021) --- NASA astronaut Raja Chari poses for an official portrait.

Photo Date: November 20, 2009 Location: Building 8, Room 272 - Photo Studio Subject: Official Crew Portrait - STS-132 Photographer: Robert Markowitz

Official 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.

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Portrait of NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli in an EMU spacesuit. Taken on Sept. 6, 2022. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

jsc2023e000179_alt (Jan. 6, 2023) --- NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-8 Commander Matthew Dominick poses for a casual portrait at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

STS132-S-002 (20 Nov. 2009) --- Attired in training versions of their shuttle launch and entry suits, these six astronauts take a break from training to pose for the STS-132 crew portrait. Pictured clockwise are NASA astronauts Ken Ham (bottom), commander; Garrett Reisman and Michael Good, both mission specialists; Tony Antonelli, pilot; Piers Sellers and Steve Bowen both mission specialists.

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

jsc2023e054876 (Sept. 28, 2023) --- NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is greeted by coworkers, including fellow NASA astronaut Christina Koch (center), following his arrival at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas, aboard a NASA jet. Rubio had just completed a 371-day mission aboard the International Space Station the day before.

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

Lunar science lead for Artemis II and Artemis II science officer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Kelsey Young, stands in the lunar-like landscape of Iceland during an Artemis II crew geology field training.

Expedition 27/28 Official Crew Portrait. Photo Date: July 22, 2010. Location: Building 8, Room 272 - Photo Studio. Photographer: Robert Markowitz.

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.

jsc2023e071476 (Nov. 3, 2023) --- (From left) NASA astronaut Nick Hague, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, and NASA astronauts Stephanie Wilson and Zena Cardman participate in crew water survival training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, for the SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. Credit: Robert Markowitz

Expedition 32 crew member Sunita Williams during her EMU Training and Certification. Photo Date: September 8, 2011. Location: Building 7 - SSATA Chamber. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

OSIRIS REx curation team attempting to remove the two stuck fasteners that are currently prohibiting the complete opening of the TAGSAM head. Photo Date: January 10, 2024. Location: Bldg. 31 - 2nd Floor - OSIRIS-REx lab. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2011-E-070523 (22 July 2011) --- NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson (center), STS-135 commander; and Doug Hurley, pilot, hold up a photo of the plaque that was left in space shuttle Atlantis by the STS-135 crew members during the STS-135 crew return ceremony on July 22, 2011 at Ellington Field near NASA?s Johnson Space Center (JSC). JSC director Michael L. Coats is at left. Photo credit: NASA

Expedition 32 crew member Sunita Williams during her EMU Training and Certification. Photo Date: September 8, 2011. Location: Building 7 - SSATA Chamber. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

jsc2022e090764 (Dec. 1, 2022): Flight controller Jason Helms at the guidance, navigation and control console in Houston’s Mission Control Center observes 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

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Expedition 32 crew member Sunita Williams during her EMU Training and Certification. Photo Date: September 8, 2011. Location: Building 7 - SSATA Chamber. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

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Expedition 34 astronaut crew members Chris Hadfield and Tom Marshburn during INC-34/CB ISS EVA 2 91027. Photo Date: December 7, 2011. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

SSATA Crew Training with Expedition 35/36 crew member Chris Cassidy during dry run. Photo Date: October 30, 2012. Location: Building 7, SSATA Chamber. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2009-E-242709 (6 Oct. 2009) --- Astronaut Nicholas J. M. Patrick, mission specialist

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

jsc2022e090080 (Nov. 28, 2022): NASA Astronaut Stan Love observes the Orion spacecraft as it reaches its maximum distance from the Earth, nearly 270,000 miles, on flight day 14 of the Artemis I mission from within the Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas. Love is practicing to be capsule communicator, or capcom, during future crewed Artemis missions. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

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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

Portrait of NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli in an EMU spacesuit. Taken on Sept. 6, 2022. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, mission specialist on the upcoming SpaceX Crew-4 mission, the fourth crew rotation flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, prepares for a flight in a NASA T-38 jet trainer at Ellington Airport as she continues training for her mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Date: September 1, 2021. Location: Ellington Field - Hangar 276. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

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

jsc2021e030607 (May 20, 2021) --- The official crew portrait of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission with (from left) Commander Raja Chari and Pilot Thomas Mashburn, both NASA astronauts; Mission Specialist Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency); and Mission Specialist Kayla Barron of NASA.

jsc2023e017087 (April 3, 2023) – – Houston students from Davila Elementary and Wesley Elementary attend the Monday, April 3, 2023, announcement of the Artemis II crew at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center. 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.

Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for Exploration, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, participates in a news conference Feb. 23, 2024, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Kearns was on hand to discuss the NASA science and technology aboard Intuitive Machines’ 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.

SSATA Crew Training with Expedition 35/36 crew member Chris Cassidy during dry run. Photo Date: October 30, 2012. Location: Building 7, SSATA Chamber. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2010-E-089928 (10 June 2010) --- Robonaut 2, a dexterous, humanoid astronaut helper, will fly to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Discovery on the STS-133 mission. Although it will initially only participate in operational tests, upgrades could eventually allow the robot to realize its true purpose ? helping spacewalking astronauts with tasks outside the space station. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

JSC2010-E-086451 (20 May 2010) --- The members of the STS-132 Orbit 2 flight control team pose for a group portrait in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Flight director Chris Edelen (second left) is visible on the front row.

The Artemis II crew astronauts, their backups, and the geology training field team pose in a valley in Iceland’s Vatnajökull national park. From front left: Angela Garcia, Jacob Richardson, Cindy Evans, Jenni Gibbons, Jacki Mahaffey, back row from left: Jeremy Hansen, John Ramsey, Reid Wiseman, Ron Spencer, Scott Wray, Kelsey Young, Patrick Whelley, Christina Koch, Andre Douglas, Jacki Kagey, Victor Glover, Rick Rochelle (NOLS), Trevor Graff.

JSC2011-E-070471 (22 July 2011) --- NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) director Michael L. Coats (left), Houston Mayor Annise Parker, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) and NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson, STS-135 commander, are pictured during the STS-135 crew return ceremony on July 22, 2011 at Ellington Field near JSC. Photo credit: NASA

jsc2024e022809 March 26, 2024 -- NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston hosted a Tuesday, March 26, visit by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who visited NASA’s Mission Control Center, spoke with native Texan and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara aboard the International Space Station, and introduced the new members of the Texas Space Commission. Abbott was joined by NASA Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, Texas Representative Greg Bonnen and other state and space industry leaders.

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jsc2023e005877 (Jan. 31, 2023) --- NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-8 Pilot Mike Barratt prepares for a spacewalk training session at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Alternate ACES Suit Astronaut Portrait for Julie Payette

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NASA Astronaut Victor Glover will be making his second flight to space as the pilot of the Artemis II mission. Glover previously served as pilot on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1, which landed May 2, 2021, after 168 days in space. As a flight engineer aboard the space station for Expedition 64, he contributed to scientific investigations, technology demonstrations, and participated in four spacewalks. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

Photo Date: 09/30/09 Location: Bldg.8,Rm.272 - Photo Studio Subject: Official Portrait of Astronaut Candidate Scott Tingle Photographer: Robert Markowitz

Steve Altemus, chief executive 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.

Artemis II Crew Geology Training in Iceland. Nautagil / Holohraun Science Activity. Photo Date: August 1, 2024. Location: Drekagil, Iceland. Photo Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

jsc2025e034746 (April 2, 2025) -- Artemis II crew with the Artemis II mission patch. Photo Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

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Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is making his first flight to space as a mission specialist on the Artemis II mission. He was one of two recruits selected by CSA in May 2009 through the third Canadian Astronaut Recruitment Campaign and has served in many roles supporting human spaceflight. Hansen has served as Capcom in NASA's Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center and in 2017, became the first Canadian to be entrusted with leading a NASA astronaut class, leading the training of astronaut candidates from the United States and Canada. This image was modified to include CSA’s insignia on the center front of Hansen’s spacesuit. The insignia was not available at the time of the photo. It will be on Hansen’s suit for Artemis II.

jsc2022e089183 (Nov. 21, 2022) During flight day 6 of the 25.5-day mission, Orion program managers greet Artemis I Lead Flight Director Rick LaBrode in the White Flight Control Room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The visit followed during the Outbound Powered Flyby (OPF) burn, which set Orion on a course to fly by the Moon at a closest distance of 81 miles (130.5 kilometers).

JSC2010-E-090735 (10 June 2010) --- Robonaut 2, a dexterous, humanoid astronaut helper, will fly to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Discovery on the STS-133 mission. Although it will initially only participate in operational tests, upgrades could eventually allow the robot to realize its true purpose ? helping spacewalking astronauts with tasks outside the space station. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Scientists in the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center study samples retrieved by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft and returned to Earth in late 2020. JAXA shared a portion of the samples with NASA, and in exchange, NASA will provide JAXA a percentage of a sample of asteroid Bennu, when the agency’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returns to Earth from the space rock in 2023. Photo Date: November 30, 2021. Location: Bldg. 31, H2 Clean Room. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

STS-135 Crew Return Ceremony to Ellington Field. Photo Date: July 22, 2011. Location: Ellington Field - Hangar 990. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

Expedition 34 astronaut crew members Chris Hadfield and Tom Marshburn during INC-34/CB ISS EVA 2 91027. Photo Date: December 7, 2011. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

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