JSC2001-E-06420 (27 February 2001) --- Astronaut Steven W. Lindsey, mission commander, occupies commander’s station during mission training in one of the high fidelity trainers/mockups in the Systems Integration Facility at Johnson Space Center (JSC). The STS-104 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) represents the Space Shuttle Atlantis' first flight using a new engine and is targeted for a liftoff no earlier than June 14, 2001.

JSC2011-E-029049 (21 March 2011) --- NASA astronaut Rex Walheim (foreground), STS-135 mission specialist, participates in an extravehicular activity (EVA) hardware training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. EVA instructor Art Thomason assisted Walheim. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

JSC2011-E-054048 (13 June 2011) --- NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus, STS-135 mission specialist, attired in a training version of her 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

ISS014-S-002A (30 March 2006) --- Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (center), Expedition 14 commander and NASA space station science officer; cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin (right), flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency; and astronaut Sunita L. Williams, flight engineer, take a break from training at Johnson Space Center to pose for a crew portrait.

JSC2004-E-00591 (10 Dec. 2003) --- Astronaut Charles J. Camarda, mission specialist.

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

JSC2011-E-046901 (19 May 2011) --- Flight director Gary Horlacher and astronaut Megan McArthur, STS-134 spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), are pictured at their consoles in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center during flight day four activities. Photo credit: NASA

ESA astronaut and first astronaut from the United Kingdom, Timothy Peake, with NASA astronaut Scott Tingle (unassigned) during EVA Skills training in the NBL. Photo Date: November 27, 2012. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2010-E-043677 (25 March 2010) --- NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel, STS-134 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 his 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.

ESA astronaut and first astronaut from the United Kingdom, Timothy Peake, with NASA astronaut Scott Tingle (unassigned) during EVA Skills training in the NBL. Photo Date: November 27, 2012. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2002-E-44140 (24 June 2002) --- Cosmonaut Nikolai M. Budarin, flight engineer representing Rosaviakosmos.

Expedition 26 crew members Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli during ISS EVA PRF 41027 training in the NBL. Photo Date: September 21, 2010. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz.

JSC2011-E-029062 (21 March 2011) --- NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus, STS-135 mission specialist, participates in a training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Crew instructors assisted Magnus. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

STS-119 crew training during NBL EVA3 training.

Photographic documentation of the STS-109 Crew Return Ceremony. The events take place at Hangar 990 at Ellington Field. Views include: Overall view of crewmembers [09319]; View of crewmembers standing on stage talking to group [09320]; Unidentified crewmember waving to crowd [09321]; Unidentified crewmember autographing photo [09322]; Mission Specialist Michael J. Massimino holding crew photo as he talks to child in group [09323]; Pilot Duane G. Carey signing a crew photo for a visitor [09324]; Unidentified crewmember signing a photo for visitor [09325]; Commander Scott D. Altman talking to child in group [09326]; Unidentified crewmember giving a photo to visitor [09327]; Crewmembers exiting plane [09328]; Duane G. Carey shaking hands with visitor. Astronaut Scott Altman smiling in the background [09329); Astronaut Jim Newman kissing his child [09330]; Jim Newman holding his daughter as his son grabs at his pant leg [09331]; Close-up view of Payload Commander John Grunsfeld holding his daughter [09332]; Duane G. Carey standing with family members [09333]; Close-up view of Duane G. Carey placing his hand on a child's head as he is talking to him [09334]; Overall view of spectator watching ceremony [09335]; Close-up view of speaker during ceremony [09336]; Close-up view of Scott Altman speaking to crowd [09337]; Close-up view of a young spectator at ceremony [09338]; Close-up view of Duane G. Carey speaking to the crowd [09339]; Close-up view of Mission Specialist Nancy J. Currie speaking to the crowd [09340]; Close-up view of John M. Grunsfield speaking to the crowd [09341]; Close-up view of Mission Specialist Richard M. Linnehan speaking to the crowd [09342]; Close-up view of James H. Newman speaking to the crowd [09343]; Close-up view of Michael J. Massimino speaking to the crowd [09344]

Photo Date: 2021-12-06 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

Expedition 33 crew members Sunita Williams and Aki Hoshide during NBL EVA training. Photo Date: January 11, 2012. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2009-E-208975 (17 Sept. 2009) --- United Space Alliance crew trainer Robert (Rob) Tomaro briefs Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, STS-131 mission specialist, in preparation for a water survival training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Yamazaki is wearing a training version of her shuttle launch and entry suit.

European Astronaut Tim Peake of ESA during ISS EVA MAINT 3 NBL Training with Astronaut Tim Kopra and instructor Sandy Moore. Photo Date: September 10, 2014. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2001-E-05534 (28 February 2001) --- The STS-102 crew fields questions from various news media representatives at a press briefing at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). From the right are astronauts James M. Kelly, pilot; and Andrew S.W. Thomas and Paul W. Richards, both mission specialists; cosmonaut Yury V. Usachev, and astronauts James S. Voss and Susan J. Helms, all mission specialists. Astronaut James D. Wetherbee, STS-102 commander, is out of frame at right. Expedition Two commander Usachev, representing Rosaviakosmos, will join Voss and Helms in the first crew exchange aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS) at some point following the docking of the outpost and the Space Shuttle Discovery.

JSC2002-E-09321 (13 March 2002) --- Astronaut Michael J. Massimino, STS-109 mission specialist, greets the assembled crowd in Hangar 990 at Ellington Field during the crew return ceremonies.

JSC2006-E-44663 (16 Oct. 2006) --- Astronauts John D. (Danny) Olivas and James F. Reilly II, both STS-117 mission specialists, are about to be submerged in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near Johnson Space Center. Olivas and Reilly are attired in training versions of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit.

JSC2001-00012 (January 2001) --- Astronaut Charles O. Hobaugh, STS-104 pilot, floats in a small life raft during an emergency egress training session at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Hobaugh will join four other astronauts for a June mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Expedition 37 Crew News Conference (Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazansky, Michael Hopkins). Photo Date: July 17, 2013. Location: Building 2N - Press Conference Room. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2005-E-31292 (28 July 2005) --- An unidentified member of the STS-116 crew simulates an ejection from a troubled shuttle into a body of water during an emergency bailout training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near the Johnson Space Center.

JSC2003-00678 (January 2003) --- Astronaut Joan E. Higginbotham, STS-116 mission specialist, takes a break from training to pose for a portrait with a NASA T-38 trainer jet at Ellington Field near Johnson Space Center.

JSC2011-E-006696 (27 Jan. 2011) --- NASA astronaut Steve Bowen, STS-133 mission specialist, attired in a training version of his shuttle launch and entry suit, uses a communication system during a training session in the fixed-base shuttle mission simulator (SMS) in the Jake Garn Simulation and Training Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Photograph final space shuttle crew training session in the NBL with STS-135 Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus & Rex Walheim. STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson serves as Intravehicular suit-up lead, Pilot Doug Hurley serves as robotic arm operator. Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus & Rex Walheim in the water. Photo Date: June 13, 2011. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2010-E-106309 (28 June 2010) --- During a training session in the space vehicle mockup facility at the Johnson Space Center, the STS-133 crew is pictured with its seventh crew member ? Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot to travel to space and the first U.S.-built robot to visit the space station. R2, as the robot is called, will stay on the space station indefinitely to allow engineers on the ground to learn more about how humanoid robots fare in microgravity. The STS-133 crew members are: (clockwise from the top) NASA astronauts Steve Lindsey, commander; Alvin Drew, Nicole Stott and Tim Kopra, all mission specialists, along with Eric Boe, pilot, and Mike Barratt, mission specialist. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Expedition 26 crew members Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli during ISS EVA PRF 41027 training in the NBL. Photo Date: September 21, 2010. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz.

STS-129 Water Survival Training at the NBL. Photo Date: March 30, 2009. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2010-E-193910 (1 Dec. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff, STS-134 mission specialist, participates in an extravehicular activity (EVA) training session in the Partial Gravity Simulator (POGO) test area in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA?s Johnson Space Center. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

JSC2009-E-207811 (12 Sept. 2009) --- NASA astronaut Patrick Forrester, STS-128 mission specialist, is pictured during the STS-128 crew return ceremony on Sept. 12, 2009 at Ellington Field near NASA?s Johnson Space Center.

JSC2010-E-019631 (8 Feb. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Tony Antonelli, STS-132 pilot, participates in a training session in the simulation control area in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at the Sonny Carter Training Facility near NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Expedition 29 crew member Dan Burbank during SSATA Crew Training. Photo Date: May 18, 2011. Location: Building 7 - SSATA Chamber. Photographer: Robert Markowitz.

Expedition 33 crew members Sunita Williams and Aki Hoshide during NBL EVA training. Photo Date: January 11, 2012. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

European Astronaut Tim Peake of ESA during ISS EVA MAINT 3 NBL Training with Astronaut Tim Kopra and instructor Sandy Moore. Photo Date: September 10, 2014. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

STS-129 Water Survival Training at the NBL. Photo Date: March 30, 2009. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2001-E-06202 (8 March 2001) --- At their console in Houston's Mission Control Center, flight directors Wayne Hale (left) and John Shannon discuss a mission detail while awaiting launch several hundred miles away in Florida. Hale is ascent director and Shannon is lead and Orbit 1 director

JSC2010-E-187220 (22 Nov. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 27/28 flight engineer, 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. NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson, STS-135 commander, is at right. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

JSC2010-E-063825 (3 May 2010) --- NASA astronaut Steve Bowen, STS-132 mission specialist, poses for a portrait following an STS-132 preflight press conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Photographic coverage of Expedition 37 flight controllers on console with Flight Director's Jerry Jason and Tony Ceccacci during the undocking of Europe's 4th Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) from the International Space Station. Photo Date: October 28, 2013. Location: Building 30 - FCR1. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2009-E-286976 (22 Dec. 2009) --- Astronauts Ken Ham (left), STS-132 commander; Tony Antonelli (right background), pilot; and Mike Good, mission specialist, participate in an exercise in the systems engineering simulator in the Avionics Systems Laboratory at NASA?s Johnson Space Center. The facility includes moving scenes of full-sized International Space Station components over a simulated Earth.

Expedition 40 crew member Steve Swanson during his arrival at Ellington Field. Photo Date: September 11, 2014. Location: Ellington Field. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2011-E-060712 (30 June 2011) --- Space Shuttle Program Manager John Shannon (left) and International Space Station Program Manager Michael Suffredini are pictured during a space shuttle and space station program overview press conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Photo credit: NASA

JSC2001-E-25113 (16 August 2001) --- Flight director Kelly Beck monitors data at her console in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houston’s Mission Control Center (MCC). At the time this photo was taken, STS-105 mission specialists Daniel T. Barry and Patrick G. Forrester were performing the first of the two scheduled space walks to perform work on the International Space Station (ISS).

Photographic coverage of Expedition 37 flight controllers on console with Flight Director's Jerry Jason and Tony Ceccacci during the undocking of Europe's 4th Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) from the International Space Station. Photo Date: October 28, 2013. Location: Building 30 - FCR1. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2001-E-21333 (12 July 2001) --- From a familiar setting in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) at Houston's Mission Control Center (MCC), Wayne Hale, ascent flight director for STS-104, pays close attention to new data related to the Space Shuttle Atlantis and its impending launch from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

JSC2001-E-21338 (12 July 2001) --- Robert Gest (left), with United Space Alliance (USA); Steven A. Hawley, deputy director of flight crew operations; and Alan L. (Lee) Briscoe, chief engineer for the Mission Operations Directorate, watch their monitors at the MOD console in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) as the external tank oxygen vent hood is raised and retracted minutes prior to the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

SSATA Crew Training and EMU Verification for STS-128 crew member Danny Olivas during suited dry run. Test Directors: Cristina Anchondo and Laura Campbell. Photo Date: April 22, 2009. Location: Building 7 - SSATA Chamber. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2009-E-228752 (29 Oct. 2009) --- Astronaut Nicholas Patrick, STS-130 mission specialist, participates in an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit fit check in the Space Station Airlock Test Article (SSATA) in the Crew Systems Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Astronaut George Zamka, commander, assisted Patrick.

JSC2009-E-125122 (1 June 2009) --- Crew trainer Patrick Jones (right) briefs STS-130 crew members during a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA?s Johnson Space Center. Pictured from the left are astronauts Terry Virts Jr., pilot; Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken, both mission specialists; George Zamka, commander; Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire, both mission specialists.

ESA astronaut and first astronaut from the United Kingdom, Timothy Peake, with NASA astronaut Scott Tingle (unassigned) during EVA Skills training in the NBL. Photo Date: November 27, 2012. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

STS-129 Water Survival Training at the NBL. Photo Date: March 30, 2009. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

Expedition 35/36 crew member Chris Cassidy during INC-35/CB ISS EVA MAINT 91027 along with non-assigned astronaut Serena Aunon. Photo Date: November 16, 2012. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2009-E-145717 (17 July 2009) --- Astronaut Robert Behnken, STS-130 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.

STS-119 crew training during NBL EVA3 training.

JSC2005-E-32704 (1 Aug. 2005) --- Astronauts Joan E. Higginbotham (left), STS-116 mission specialist, and Sunita L. Williams, Expedition 14 flight engineer, attired in training versions of the shuttle launch and entry suit, pose for a photo as they await the start of an emergency egress training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center. Williams will join Expedition 14 in progress and serve as a flight engineer after traveling to the station on space shuttle mission STS-116.

JSC2005-E-13772 (5 April 2005) --- Astronaut Christopher J. Ferguson, STS-115 pilot, attired in a training version of the shuttle launch and entry suit, awaits the start of an emergency egress training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center.

JSC2009-E-208913 (17 Sept. 2009) --- NASA astronaut Alan Poindexter (center), STS-131 commander; along with astronauts Rick Mastracchio (left) and Clay Anderson, both mission specialists, take a brief break for a photo during a water survival training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Poindexter and Anderson are attired in training versions of their shuttle launch and entry suits.

JSC2010-E-063808 (3 May 2010) --- NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, STS-132 mission specialist, responds to a question from a reporter during an STS-132 preflight press conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

JSC2009-E-208029 (14 Sept. 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, STS-131 mission specialist, attired in a training version of her shuttle launch and entry suit, participates in a training session near one of the full-scale trainers in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Emergency Scenarios training for the joint Soyuz 33 and Soyuz 34 crew training (Expedition 35). Photo Date: August 2, 2012. Location: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2010-E-018532 (3 Feb. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel, STS-134 mission specialist, attired in a training version of his shuttle launch and entry suit, is pictured during a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

JSC2010-E-043668 (25 March 2010) --- NASA astronauts Mark Kelly (background), STS-134 commander; and Andrew Feustel, 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 crew members for dealing with space station elements.

Emergency Scenarios training for the joint Soyuz 33 and Soyuz 34 crew training (Expedition 35). Photo Date: August 2, 2012. Location: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

Expedition 40 crew member Steve Swanson during his arrival at Ellington Field. Photo Date: September 11, 2014. Location: Ellington Field. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2011-E-060720 (30 June 2011) -- STS-135 lead flight director Kwatsi Alibaruho responds to a question from a reporter during a mission overview press conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Photo credit: NASA

Expedition 42/43 Crew News Conference with crew members Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti. Photo Date: September 18, 2014. Location: Bldg. 2s - PAO Studio B. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2003-E-42603 (June 2003) --- Astronaut Nancy J. Currie, puts on communications gear for a training version of an advanced concept space suit in order to participate in a test at the Johnson Space Center to evaluate hand-in-hand work with robots. The two Robonauts used in the demonstration's task -- the assembly of an aluminum truss structure--are out of frame.

JSC2003-E-42601 (June 2003) --- Astronaut Nancy J. Currie, wearing a training version of an advanced concept space suit, shakes hands with a Robonaut prior to participating in a test at the Johnson Space Center to evaluate hand-in-hand work with robots. The second of the two Robonauts used in the demonstration's task -- the assembly of an aluminum truss structure--is out of frame.

ESA astronaut and first astronaut from the United Kingdom, Timothy Peake, with NASA astronaut Scott Tingle (unassigned) during EVA Skills training in the NBL. Photo Date: November 27, 2012. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2001-00022 (January 2001) --- Astronaut Michael L. Gernhardt, STS-104 mission specialist, is assisted by a diver during an emergency bailout training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near Johnson Space Center (JSC). Gernhardt will join four other astronauts for a June mission with the International Space Station (ISS).

JSC2010-E-106311 (28 June 2010) --- NASA Robonaut Project Manager Ron Diftler (left) explains some of Robonaut 2?s features to members of the STS-133 crew ? continuing left, Steve Lindsey, commander; along with Alvin Drew and Nicole Stott, both mission specialists; and (bottom right corner) Eric Boe, pilot. The STS-133 crew will deliver R2, as the robot is called, to the International Space Station on space shuttle Discovery?s final flight. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

JSC2005-E-45341 (19 Aug. 2005) --- Astronaut Patrick G. Forrester, mission specialist

JSC2010-E-063797 (3 May 2010) --- NASA astronaut Steve Bowen, STS-132 mission specialist, fields a question from a reporter during an STS-132 preflight press conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

STS-133 crew return ceremony to Ellington Field. Photo Date: March 10, 2011. Location: Ellington Field - Hangar 276. Photographer: Robert Markowitz.

JSC2001-E-12120 (19 April 2001) --- STS-100 ascent flight director LeRoy Cain (left) leans over the Mission Operations Directorate (MOD) console for a word with Jeffrey Bantle in the shuttle flight control room of Houston's Mission Control Center (MCC). Six astronauts and a cosmonaut, meanwhile, were strapped into their seats in the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Endeavour several hundred miles away in Florida.

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

JSC2001-E-06208 (8 March 2001) --- At his console in Houston's Mission Control Center, ascent flight director Wayne Hale monitors Discovery's pre-launch activities several hundred miles away in Florida on STS-102 launch day.

Expedition 35/36 crew member Chris Cassidy during INC-35/CB ISS EVA MAINT 91027 along with non-assigned astronaut Serena Aunon. Photo Date: November 16, 2012. Location: NBL - Pool Topside. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2011-E-029038 (21 March 2011) --- NASA astronauts Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, both STS-135 mission specialists, participate in an extravehicular activity (EVA) hardware training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near 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

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

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

JSC2010-E-018582 (3 Feb. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, STS-134 mission specialist, gets help with the donning of 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.

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

STS122-S-002 (24 April 2007) --- These seven astronauts take a break from training to pose for the STS-122 crew portrait. From the left (front row) are astronauts Stephen N. Frick, commander; European Space Agency's (ESA) Leopold Eyharts; and Alan G. Poindexter, pilot. From the left (back row) are astronauts Leland D. Melvin, Rex J. Walheim, Stanley G. Love and European Space Agency's (ESA) Hans Schlegel, all mission specialists. Eyharts will join Expedition 16 in progress to serve as a flight engineer aboard the International Space Station. The crewmembers are attired in training versions of their shuttle launch and entry suits.

JSC2010-E-193887 (1 Dec. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, STS-134 mission specialist, participates in an extravehicular activity (EVA) training session in the Partial Gravity Simulator (POGO) test area in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA?s Johnson Space Center. NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel (left) and Greg Chamitoff (second left), both mission specialists, look on. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Soyuz 30/31 Crew Press Conference (Joe Acaba, Gennady Padalka (RSA), Sergei Revin (RSA). Photo Date: January 11, 2012. Location: Building 2N, Press Conference Room. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

JSC2001-E-21331 (12 July 2001) --- Alan L. (Lee) Briscoe, chief engineer for the Mission Operations Directorate, looks over pre-flight data at the MOD console in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houston's Mission Control Center (MCC) during the countdown leading up to the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the beginning of the STS-104 mission.

JSC2006-E-41640 (25 Sept. 2006) --- Cosmonaut Fyodor N. Yurchikhin, Expedition 15 commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, participates in a camera review training session in the virtual reality lab in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at Johnson Space Center.

STS-128 crew during CCT BAILOUT with Expedition astronaut Nicole Stott.

JSC2010-E-195517 (3 Dec. 2010) --- NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson, STS-135 commander; Rex Walheim (mostly obscured) and Sandy Magnus, both mission specialists, are pictured during an emergency egress training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up 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

JSC2005-E-31220 (28 July 2005) --- Crew trainer Bob Behrendsen briefs astronaut William A. Oefelein, STS-116 pilot, in the usage of parachute gear during an emergency egress training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near Johnson Space Center. Oefelein is wearing a training version of the shuttle launch and entry suit.

JSC2009-E-107047 (4 May 2009) --- Astronaut Leland Melvin, STS-129 mission specialist, participates in a food tasting session in the Habitability and Environmental Factors Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

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

JSC2006-E-53519 (9 Dec. 2006) --- Overall view in the shuttle flight control room, from the point of view of the Booster console, on launch day for STS-116.

JSC2007-E-34404 (4 May 2007) --- Astronaut Alvin Drew, mission specialist

Expedition 29/30 ISS Habitability Equipment and Procedures training in ISS mockups. Photo Date: May 17, 2011. Location: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups. Photographer: Robert Markowitz.

JSC2010-E-043680 (25 March 2010) --- NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel, STS-134 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 his 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.