Junior Girl Scouts from two locals conceils, Girl Scouts of Central Maryland and Girl Scouts of Nations Capital, participated in She's an Engineer! Girl Scout program on November 3, 2016. They met with female NASA engineers and tested rover models in simulated I&T stations to explore the Engineering Design process.
Junior Girl Scouts from two locals conceils, Girl Scouts of Central Maryland and Girl Scouts of Nations Capital, participated in She's an Engineer! Girl Scout program on November 3, 2016. They met with female NASA engineers and tested rover models in simulated I&T stations to explore the Engineering Design process.
Junior Girl Scouts from two locals conceils, Girl Scouts of Central Maryland and Girl Scouts of Nations Capital, participated in She's an Engineer! Girl Scout program on November 3, 2016. They met with female NASA engineers and tested rover models in simulated I&T stations to explore the Engineering Design process.
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HUNTSVILLE UTILITIES EMPLOYEES GIVE A DEMONSTRATION OF ELECTRICAL SAFETY AND HOW OUR LOCAL ELECTRICAL SYSTEM WORKS AT SHE/EARTH DAY.
CEREMONIAL TREE PLANTING WIHT (L TO R) ROBIN HENDERSON, STEVE DOERING, GENE GOLDMAN, STEVE CASH, AND ED KIESSLING AT THE 2012 SHE/EARTH DAY EVENT.
STS059-32-016 (20 April 1994) --- Astronaut Linda M. Godwin, STS-59 payload commander, poses with the spacesuit she wore for launch. She will eventually wear the partial pressure suit for the entry phase of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's week and a half mission in Earth orbit.
iss073e0379898 (May 1, 2025) --- Expedition 73 Commander Takuya Onishi from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) assists Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers from NASA as she tries on a spacesuit and tests its components during a fit check inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock.
iss073e0379892 (May 1, 2025) --- Expedition 73 Commander Takuya Onishi from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) assists Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers from NASA as she tries on a spacesuit and tests its components during a fit check inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock.
Astronaut Suni Williams poses with a poster of herself as she tours ULA facility in Decatur, Al
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Karen Holloway-Adkins, KSC wildlife specialist, holds a sample of the sea grass she collected from the floor of the Banana River. She is studying the life history of sea turtles, especially what they eat, where they lay their eggs and what factors might harm their survival. On the boat trip she is also monitoring the growth of sea grasses and algae and the water quality of estuaries and lagoons used by sea turtles and other aquatic wildlife.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Karen Holloway-Adkins, KSC wildlife specialist, shows a sample of the sea grass she collected from the floor of the Banana River. She is studying the life history of sea turtles, especially what they eat, where they lay their eggs and what factors might harm their survival. On the boat trip she is also monitoring the growth of sea grasses and algae and the water quality of estuaries and lagoons used by sea turtles and other aquatic wildlife.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Karen Holloway-Adkins, KSC wildlife specialist, takes the helm on the boat as she begins a tour of the Banana River. She is studying the life history of sea turtles, especially what they eat, where they lay their eggs and what factors might harm their survival. On the boat trip she is also monitoring the growth of sea grasses and algae and the water quality of estuaries and lagoons used by sea turtles and other aquatic wildlife.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Karen Holloway-Adkins, KSC wildlife specialist, at the helm of a boat on the Banana River, heads for a research area. She is studying the life history of sea turtles, especially what they eat, where they lay their eggs and what factors might harm their survival. On the boat trip she is also monitoring the growth of sea grasses and algae and the water quality of estuaries and lagoons used by sea turtles and other aquatic wildlife.
The tropical Pacific Ocean is beginning to exhibit the characteristics of a developing La Niña condition.
ISS014-E-19450 (16 April 2007) --- Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, Expedition 14 flight engineer, circled Earth almost three times as she participated in the Boston Marathon from space. She is seen here with her feet off the station treadmill on which she ultimately ran about six miles per hour while flying more than five miles each second. The treadmill is called TVIS, for Treadmill Vibration Isolation System, by the crewmembers and their ground support team. Williams' official completion time was four hours, 23 minutes and 10 seconds as she completed the race at 2:24 p.m. (EDT).
ISS014-E-19466 (16 April 2007) --- Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, Expedition 14 flight engineer, circled Earth almost three times as she participated in the Boston Marathon from space. She is seen here with her feet off the station treadmill on which she ultimately ran about six miles per hour while flying more than five miles each second. The treadmill is called TVIS, for Treadmill Vibration Isolation System, by the crewmembers and their ground support team. Williams' official completion time was four hours, 23 minutes and 10 seconds as she completed the race at 2:24 p.m. (EDT).
ISS037-E-002783 (22 Sept. 2013) --- NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Expedition 37 flight engineer, made this stuffed dinosaur toy aboard the International Space Station, using scraps of food-packaging liners and a T-shirt. She sent images of it to her young son on Sept. 22. Many of the astronaut’s hobbies lean toward artistic pursuits. She has let it be known that she loves to create different things through quilting, sewing and sketching. Nyberg took four “fat quarters” (pieces of fabric that are 18 by 22 inches) with her to the International Space Station along with needles, thread and a sketchbook when she launched to space on May 28.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, STS-114 Mission Commander Eileen Collins looks closely at a reinforced carbon-carbon panel on the wing of Atlantis. She and other crew members are at KSC to take part in crew equipment and orbiter familiarization.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-83 Pilot Susan L. Still chats with White Room closeout crew member Rene Arriens as she prepares to enter the Space Shuttle Columbia at Launch Pad 39A with assistance from closeout crew worker Bob Saulnier (behind Still).
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-114 Commander Eileen Collins arrives at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility in a T-38 jet aircraft. She and other crew members are at KSC to take part in crew equipment and orbiter familiarization.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-114 Commander Eileen Collins talks with workers in the Orbiter Processing Facility. She and other crew members are at KSC to become familiar with Shuttle and mission equipment. The mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment plus the external stowage platform to the International Space Station.
Kelly Latimer is a research pilot in the Flight Crew Branch of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. Latimer joined NASA in March 2007 and will fly the T38, T-34, G-III, C-17 and the "Ikhana" Predator B. Latimer is Dryden's first female research test pilot. Prior to joining NASA, Latimer was on active duty with the U.S. Air Force. She has accumulated more than 5,000 hours of military and civilian flight experience in 30 aircraft. Latimer's first association with NASA was while attending graduate school at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Her studies included work with the Joint Institute for the Advancement of Flight Sciences at NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. She flew an Air Force C-17 during a 2005 NASA study to reduce aircraft noise. A team of California Polytechnic State University students and Northrop Grumman personnel were stationed on Rogers Dry Lake located at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to record the noise footprint of the aircraft as it made various landing approaches to Edwards' runway. Latimer completed undergraduate pilot training at Reese Air Force Base, Texas, in 1990. She remained at Reese as a T-38 instructor pilot until 1993. She was assigned as a C-141 aircraft commander at McCord Air Force Base, Tacoma, Wash., until 1996. Latimer graduated from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards in Class 96B. She served as a C-17 and C-141 experimental test pilot at Edwards until 2000. She then became the chief of the Performance Branch and a T-38 instructor pilot at The Air Force Test Pilot School. She returned to McCord in 2002, where she was a C-17 aircraft commander and the operations officer for the 62nd Operations Support Squadron. In 2004, Latimer became the commander of Edwards' 418th Flight Test Squadron and director of the Global Reach Combined Test Force. Following that assignment, she deployed to Iraq as an advisor to the Iraqi Air Force. Her last active duty tour was as an instructor a
View of Stephanie Wilson as she works at the Robotics Workstation (RWS) in US Laboratory Destiny as she conducts a Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) Ammonia Tank Assembly (ATA) retrieval in support of STS-131 EVA 3.
STS111-E-5061 (7 June 2002) --- Astronaut Peggy A. Whitson is pictured as she passes into the Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA-2) on board the International Space Station (ISS). She is beginning this week to serve a lengthy tour of duty as flight engineer for the fifth crew to live and work aboard the orbiting outpost.
Lashanda Battle is a sustainability lead at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. In this role, she supports NASA’s and Kennedy’s mission by promoting a better way of living at the Florida spaceport, as well as in the surrounding communities. Through different outreach opportunities, she raises awareness about sustainability initiatives and environmental stewardship.
iss070e130299 (March 29, 2024) --- Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara conducts leak checks and tries on the Sokol launch and entry suit she will wear when she returns to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-24 crew ship docked to the International Space Station's Rassvet module.
Lashanda Battle is a sustainability lead at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. In this role, she supports NASA’s and Kennedy’s mission by promoting a better way of living at the Florida spaceport, as well as in the surrounding communities. Through different outreach opportunities, she raises awareness about sustainability initiatives and environmental stewardship.
jsc2024e052323 (July 22, 2024) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Commander Zena Cardman smiles as she gets better acquainted with the Dragon spacecraft, which will take them to the International Space Station no earlier than mid-August. Credit: SpaceX
iss072e487421 (Jan. 16, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams is pictured during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station where she replaced a rate gyro assembly that helps maintain the orientation of the orbital outpost.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Cherie Blair, wife of Tony Blair, prime minister of Great Britain, stops at Launch Pad 39B on a tour of Kennedy Space Center. At left is the KSC bus driver, Dale Meneau, and at right is Robert Dudiak, a personal friend of the Blairs. Mrs. Blair is an attorney (barrister) in England. She was Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University from 1999-2006, and in July 2006 was awarded the honorary title of Emeritus Chancellor. She is also Governor of the London School of Economics and the Open University. She is a founding member of Matrix Chambers in London, from which she continues to practice as a barrister, which specializes in human rights law. Photo credit: NASA/John Keckley
STS-83 Pilot Susan L. Still gives a thumbs-up as she is assisted into her launch/entry suit in the Operations and checkout (O&C) Building. She is the second woman to fly in this capacity on a Space Shuttle. Still is a lieutenant colonel in the Navy and has more than 2,000 flight hours in 30 different types of aircraft. She also holds a master's degree in aerospace engineering. Still will assist Halsell with all phases of the space flight and will have primary responsibility to take action in the event of an emergency. After Columbia reaches orbit, Still will be busy with the many and varied tasks associated with monitoring and maintaining the orbiter. She and six fellow crew members will shortly depart the O&C and head for Launch Pad 39A, where the Space Shuttle Columbia will lift off during a launch window that opens at 2:00 p.m. EST, April 4
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Cherie Blair (center), wife of Tony Blair, prime minister of Great Britain, is given a guided walkthrough of the Space Station Processing Facility during a tour of Kennedy Space Center. From left in front are Gale Booth (Mrs. Blair's mother), Mrs. Blair and Tom Pentrack, deputy director of ISS and Spacecraft Processing. Mrs. Blair is an attorney (barrister) in England. She was Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University from 1999-2006, and in July 2006 was awarded the honorary title of Emeritus Chancellor. She is also Governor of the London School of Economics and the Open University. She is a founding member of Matrix Chambers in London, from which she continues to practice as a barrister, which specializes in human rights law. Photo credit: NASA/John Keckley
This photograph was taken August 15, 1956. Mary Jackson first person in the front row right side. Mary Jackson began at Langley in 1951 as a computer. She was later assigned to work at the 4-Foot by 4-Foot Supersonic Pressure Tunnel where she worked with Kazimierz "Kaz" Czarnecki, who encouraged her to become an engineer. To attend the university extension engineering classes held at the then all-white Hampton High School, Jackson was required to petition the courts, which she did successfully. The 4’ x 4’ Supersonic Pressure Tunnel was the NACA’s first supersonic wind tunnel. At the time of the photo, Mary Jackson was still a human computer, but was participating in the hands-on experimental work. Mrs. Jackson had begun her studies to be an engineer in the Spring of the same year the photo was taken. She obtained a degree in aerospace engineering in 1958. Photo published in "A Century at Langley" by Joseph R. Chambers page 74.
After donning her launch and entry suit, STS-86 Mission Specialist Wendy B. Lawrence gives a "thumbs up" to show she’s ready to fly in a few hours on the Space Shuttle Atlantis. This will be Lawrence’s second spaceflight. She and the six other crew members will depart shortly from the Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Pad 39A, where Atlantis awaits liftoff on a 10-day mission slated to be the seventh docking of the Shuttle with the Russian Space Station Mir. Lawrence was given the nickname "too short," as shown on her orange spacesuit, because she was withdrawn from training for an extended stay aboard the Mir when it was determined that she was too short to fit into the Russian spacewalk suit. Lawrence remains a member of the STS-86 crew, but fellow Mission Specialist David A. Wolf will take her place for an approximate four-month stay aboard the Russian space station
STS-83 Payload Commander Janice Voss smiles as she is assisted into her launch/entry suit in the Operations and checkout (O&C) Building. She has flown on STS-63 and STS-57. Voss holds a doctorate degree in aeronautics/astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has earned two NASA Space Flight Medals. As Payload Commander and a member of the Blue team, Voss will have overall responsibility for the operation of all of the MSL-1 experiments. During the experimentation phase of the mission, she will be working primarily with three combustion experiments. She and six fellow crew members will shortly depart the O&C and head for Launch Pad 39A, where the Space Shuttle Columbia will lift off during a launch window that opens at 2:00 p.m. EST, April 4
Sumara Thompson-King is seen here being sworn in by Robert Lightfoot, Associate Administrator (left) at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC on June 2, 2014. Thompson-King assumed the role of General Counsel on Sunday, June 1, 2014 after Michael Wholley, former General Counsel, retired. She started her career at NASA in the Office of Chief Counsel at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD in 1986. In 1991, she became a senior attorney at NASA Headquarters and in 1995 was promoted to the Deputy Associate General Counsel (Contracts) position. She is the first woman and first African American to serve as General Counsel at NASA Headquarters. (Photo Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
Sumara Thompson-King is seen here after being sworn in by Robert Lightfoot, Associate Administrator (left) at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC on June 2, 2014. Thompson-King assumed the role of General Counsel on Sunday, June 1, 2014 after Michael Wholley, former General Counsel, retired. She started her career at NASA in the Office of Chief Counsel at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD in 1986. In 1991, she became a senior attorney at NASA Headquarters and in 1995 was promoted to the Deputy Associate General Counsel (Contracts) position. She is the first woman and first African American to serve as General Counsel at NASA Headquarters. (Photo Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
Sumara Thompson-King is seen here being sworn in by Robert Lightfoot, Associate Administrator (not pictured) at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC on June 2, 2014. Thompson-King assumed the role of General Counsel on Sunday, June 1, 2014 after Michael Wholley, former General Counsel, retired. She started her career at NASA in the Office of Chief Counsel at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD in 1986. In 1991, she became a senior attorney at NASA Headquarters and in 1995 was promoted to the Deputy Associate General Counsel (Contracts) position. She is the first woman and first African American to serve as General Counsel at NASA Headquarters. (Photo Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
S135-E-007401 (11 July 2011) --- Toting a cargo transfer bag filled with supplies that was carried aboard Raffaello in Atlantis' cargo bay, NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus participates in a very busy move operation on the fourth day in space for the STS-135 crew. She is in Node 2 or Harmony, near the PMA-2 passageway, on the International Space Station. She is sporting the striped socks that she rediscovered on the station which had remained there since her long duration stay on the orbital outpost a few years ago. Photo credit: NASA
Deborah Jackson integrates a pressure system she and other students developed for the subscale Prandtl-D 3C glider.
Astronaut Sally Ride at the CapCom console during the STS-2 simulation. She appears to be speaking to the crew using a headset.
iss058e007370 (Jan. 29, 2019) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 58 Flight Engineer Anne McClain works inside Japan's Kibo laboratory module. She was setting up and installing small satellite deployment hardware inside Kibo's airlock to eject a set of CubeSats outside the Japanese module.
iss071e581260_alt (Sept. 1, 2024) --- The setting sun highlights Earth's horizon and reveals NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson's profile as she looks out the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world," while soaring 262 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean.
jsc2024e052328 (July 22, 2024) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson focuses during the crew equipment interface test (CEIT). She has collectively spent 42 days in space aboard three space shuttle Discovery missions – STS-120, STS-121, and STS-131. Credit: SpaceX
1996 'STELLAR' program commencement with special guest Mrs. Gayle Wilson (CA governor's wife) as she tours the STELLAR project displays with STELLAR students and teachers
1996 'STELLAR' program commencement with special guest Zoe Lofgren (U.S. Congresswoman, CA) as she tours the STELLAR project displays with STELLAR students and teachers
jsc2017e129183 (July 26, 2017) --- Jeanette Epps of NASA is a backup crew member for Expedition 54-55. She is also the Flight Engineer for Expedition 56-57.
1996 'STELLAR' program commencement with special guest Mrs. Gayle Wilson (CA governor's wife) as she tours the STELLAR project displays with STELLAR students and teachers
Expedition 64 NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen as she has her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked as she and fellow crewmates Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio launched at 1:45 a.m. EDT to begin a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
Expedition 64 NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen as she prepares to have her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked as she and fellow crewmates Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio launched at 1:45 a.m. EDT to begin a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins conducts a DNA experiment for a STEM in 30 segment, Thursday, April 27, 2017 at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Rubins served on the International Space Station during Expeditions 48 and 49 and became the first person to sequence DNA in space. She completed her first mission when she landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in October 2016. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
Expedition 64 NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen as she waits to have her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked as she and fellow crewmates Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio launched at 1:45 a.m. EDT to begin a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
Governor Kay Ivey recognized retired NASA Space Flight Center team member, Jeanette Scissum-Mickens on Sept. 27 at the Alabama HBCU Roundtable Discussion: Minority Women in STEM held at the Alabama A&M University. Scissum-Mickens was honored as the “Hidden Figure of Alabama A&M.” She was the first African American mathematician hired by Marshall in 1964. While at Marshall, she was a space scientist and helped improved forecast models of the sunspot cycle and led activities in Marshall’s Atmospheric, Magentospheric, and Plasmas in Space project.
NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins conducts a DNA experiment for a STEM in 30 segment, Thursday, April 27, 2017 at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Rubins served on the International Space Station during Expeditions 48 and 49 and became the first person to sequence DNA in space. She completed her first mission when she landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in October 2016. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
iss064e000163 (Oct. 22, 2020) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins points to the International Space Station's "voting booth" where she cast her vote from space this month. This is actually Rubins second time to vote from low-Earth orbit having cast her first vote from space in 2016 when she was an Expedition 48-49 crew member.
Emily Timko, featured in a Faces of NASA article, poses in the IRT (Icing Research Tunnel) where she works as a “cloud engineer”. She is a Mechanical Test Engineer and works to create unique water spray conditions that simulate icing clouds in the natural aircraft flight environment. Shown in the photo is a portion of the fan drive motor and fan blades that together drive the air through the wind tunnel.
Emily Timko, featured in a Faces of NASA article, poses in the IRT (Icing Research Tunnel) where she works as a “cloud engineer”. She is a Mechanical Test Engineer and works to create unique water spray conditions that simulate icing clouds in the natural aircraft flight environment. Shown in the photo is a test article of a rotating propeller configuration that the IRT researchers are investigating ice accretion with.
Expedition 64 NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen as she prepares to have her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked as she and fellow crewmates Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio launched at 1:45 a.m. EDT to begin a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins conducts a DNA experiment for a STEM in 30 segment, Thursday, April 27, 2017 at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Rubins served on the International Space Station during Expeditions 48 and 49 and became the first person to sequence DNA in space. She completed her first mission when she landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in October 2016. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
S116-E-05190 (10 Dec. 2006) --- Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, STS-116 mission specialist, moves a hatch cover as she moves from Spacehab to the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery. Williams will join the Expedition 14 crew as flight engineer after she enters the International Space Station. Docking of the two spacecraft will occur on Dec. 11.
Brad McLain for the Space Biology Museum Network spins a volunteer in a rotating chair to illustrate how dependent the human vestibular system is on visual cues. The volunteer's thumbs indicate which way she thinks she is turning. Similar tests are conducted on astronauts to study how they adapt to space and readapt to Earth. The activity was part of the Space Research and You education event held by NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research on June 25, 2002, in Arlington, VA, to highlight the research that will be conducted on STS-107.
Expedition 56 flight engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA is seen as she waits to have her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked as she and fellow crewmates, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Auñón-Chancellor, Prokopyev, and Gerst on a six month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
STS096-366-030 (27 May - 6 June 1999) --- Astronaut Ellen Ochoa spent many hours in this post aboard SpaceHab in Discovery's cargo bay as she coordinated the large supply of hardware intended for the International Space Station (ISS). She joined four other American astronauts, a Canadian astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut for almost ten days in Earth orbit.
S118-E-07701 (17 Aug. 2007) --- Astronaut Tracy Caldwell, on the mid deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, brushes her hair as she prepares to participate in the shuttle crew's supply transfer chores. Tomorrow the mission specialist is scheduled to orchestrate the intravehicular support for the crew's final spacewalk, a role she has filled on three previous occasions on this her first space flight.
Expedition 33 Commander Sunita Williams of NASA smiles as she rest in a chair outside the Soyuz Capsule after she and Flight Engineers Yuri Malenchenko of ROSCOSMOS (Russian Federal Space Agency), and Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), landed their Soyuz spacecraft in a remote area outside the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Williams, Hoshide and Malenchenko returned from four months onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Emily Timko, featured in a Faces of NASA article, poses in the IRT (Icing Research Tunnel) where she works as a “cloud engineer”. She is a Mechanical Test Engineer and works to create unique water spray conditions that simulate icing clouds in the natural aircraft flight environment. Shown in the photo is a portion of the fan drive motor and fan blades that together drive the air through the wind tunnel.
iss070e105125 (Feb. 29, 2024) --- Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara maneuvers obsolete hardware that she had packed for return to Earth. She removed from the components from inside the the Quest airlock's Common Cabin Air Assembly, a life support device that circulates, cools, and dehumidifies the International Space Station’s air.
STS-94 Payload Commander Janice Voss prepares to enter the Space Shuttle Columbia at Launch Pad 39A in preparation for launch. She has flown on STS-83, STS-63 and STS-57. Voss holds a doctorate degree in aeronautics/astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has earned two NASA Space Flight Medals. As Payload Commander and a member of the Blue team, Voss will have overall responsibility for the operation of all of the MSL-1 experiments. During the experimentation phase of the mission, she be working primarily with three combustion experiments. She and six fellow crew members will lift off during a launch window that opens at 1:50 p.m. EDT, July 1. The launch window will open 47 minutes early to improve the opportunity to lift off before Florida summer rain showers reach the space center
Karma Snyder, a project manager at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center, was a senior design engineer on the RL10 liquid rocket engine that powered the Centaur, the upper stage of the rocket used in NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission in October 2009. Part of the LCROSS mission was to search for water on the moon by striking the lunar surface with a rocket stage, creating a plume of debris that could be analyzed for water ice and vapor. Snyder's work on the RL10 took place from 1995 to 2001 when she was a senior design engineer with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. Years later, she sees the project as one of her biggest accomplishments in light of the LCROSS mission. 'It's wonderful to see it come into full service,' she said. 'As one of my co-workers said, the original dream was to get that engine to the moon, and we're finally realizing that dream.'
STS-94 Pilot Susan L. Still prepares to enter the Space Shuttle Columbia at Launch Pad 39A in preparation for launch. She is the second woman to fly in this capacity on a Space Shuttle. Still is a lieutenant colonel in the Navy and has more than 2,000 flight hours in 30 different types of aircraft. She also holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering. Still will assist Halsell with all phases of the space flight and will have primary responsibility to take action in the event of an emergency. After Columbia reaches orbit, Still will be busy with the many and varied tasks associated with monitoring and maintaining the orbiter. She and six fellow crew members will lift off during a launch window that opens at 1:50 p.m. EDT, July 1. The launch window will open 47 minutes early to improve the opportunity to lift off before Florida summer rain showers reach the space center
STS-81 Mission Specialist Marsha S. Ivins gets a helping hand from a suit technician as she prepares to don the helmet of her launch/entry suit in the suitup room of the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building. She is the veteran of three Shuttle flights and became an astronaut in 1984. Among other responsibilities, Ivins will perform photo and video surveys of the Russian Mir space station and operate the Kidsat experiment camera on the orbiter’s aft flight deck. She and five crew members will shortly depart the O&C and head for Launch Pad 39B, where the Space Shuttle Atlantis will lift off during a 7-minute window that opens at 4:27 a.m. EST, January 12
STS-85 Payload Commander N. Jan Davis gives a thumbs up as she is assisted with her ascent/reentry flight suit in the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building. She has logged nearly 400 hours in space on the STS-47 and STS-60 missions and holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering. Davis will have overall responsibility for the experiments conducted on STS-85. She will also deploy and retrieve the Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the AtmosphereShuttle Pallet Satellite-2 (CRISTA-SPAS-2) free-flyer and operate the prototype Japanese robotic arm. The primary payload aboard the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery is the CRISTA-SPAS-2. Other payloads on the 11-day mission include the Manipulator Flight Demonstration (MFD), and Technology Applications and Science-1 (TAS-1) and International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker-2 (IEH-2) experiments
STS-94 Pilot Susan L. Still waves as she is assisted into her launch/entry suit in the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building. She is the second woman to fly in this capacity on a Space Shuttle. Still is a lieutenant colonel in the Navy and has more than 2,000 flight hours in 30 different types of aircraft. She also holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering. Still will assist Halsell with all phases of the space flight and will have primary responsibility to take action in the event of an emergency. After Columbia reaches orbit, Still will be busy with the many and varied tasks associated with monitoring and maintaining the orbiter. She and six fellow crew members will shortly depart the O&C and head for Launch Pad 39A, where the Space Shuttle Columbia will lift off during a launch window that opens at 1:50 p.m. EDT, July 1. The launch window was opened 47 minutes early to improve the opportunity to lift off before Florida summer rain showers reached the space center
STS-94 Payload Commander Janice Voss smiles and gives a thumbs-up as she is assisted into her launch/entry suit in the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building. She has flown on STS-83, STS-63 and STS-57. Voss holds a doctorate degree in aeronautics/astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has earned two NASA Space Flight Medals. As Payload Commander and a member of the Blue team, Voss will have overall responsibility for the operation of all of the MSL-1 experiments. During the experimentation phase of the mission, she be working primarily with three combustion experiments. She and six fellow crew members will shortly depart the O&C and head for Launch Pad 39A, where the Space Shuttle Columbia will lift off during a launch window that opens at 1:50 p.m. EDT, July 1. The launch window was opened 47 minutes early to improve the opportunity to lift off before Florida summer rain showers reached the space center
ISS018-E-017005 (1 Jan. 2009) --- Astronaut Sandra Magnus, Expedition 18 flight engineer, poses for a photo with food which she prepared at the galley in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
iss061e020169 (Oct. 29, 2019) --- NASA astronaut Christina Koch works on orbital plumbing tasks as she replaces components inside the International Space Station's bathroom, the Waste and Hygiene Compartment, located in the Tranquility module.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --STS-112 Pilot Pamela Melroy receives some assistance with her spacesuit as she prepares to participate in landing exercises in the Shuttle Training Aircraft at the Shuttle Landing Facility.
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins examines a geology sample she collected during a simulated moonwalk in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona on May 13, 2024. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
ISS042E033478 (12/09/2014) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took this aurora borealis earth observation image from the cupola window of the International Space Station. She is a flight engineer of Expedition 42.
STS112-314-029 (7-18 October 2002) --- Astronaut Pamela A. Melroy, STS-112 pilot, holds camera equipment as she floats in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS).
Photographic documentation of Extravehicular Activity (EVA) 23 Prep in the Quest airlock. Astronaut Karen Nyberg, Expedition 36 flight engineer, holds a microphone and a checklist as she sits in front of the Airlock hatch.
S127-E-008302 (23 July 2009) --- Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette, STS-127 mission specialist, is pictured as she looks out a window in the Zvezda service module on flight day 9.
iss061e025829 (Oct. 30, 2019) --- NASA astronaut Jessica Meir dines on fresh Mizuna mustard greens she harvested earlier that day aboard the International Space Station.
Holly Ridings is a global leader in human spaceflight. She is NASA's first female chief flight director, and currently leads the Gateway Program as its deputy program manager.
jsc2022e042475 (5/6/2022) --- Selin Kocalar, the student who designed the experiment on which Genes in Space-9 is based, checks the results of her experiment on the ground as she prepares it for launch. Image courtesy of Genes in Space.
Directors Colloquium, Nichelle Nichols (aka Lt Uhura of Star Trek) presents 'NASA - What's in it for me'. Nichols discusses how she successfully helped NASA recruit the first women and minority astronauts for the Space Shuttle Program.
Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey who made a historical flight aboard the Jupiter (AM-18) in May 1959, is seen here in her viewing area where she resided at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.
S118-E-10126 (20 Aug. 2007) --- Astronaut Barbara R. Morgan, STS-118 mission specialist, smiles for a photo as she floats on the middeck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins closes a sample bag full of soil she collected during a simulated moonwalk in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona on May 14, 2024. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
Veggie Project Manager Nicole Dufour provides real-time instructions to astronaut Peggy Whitson aboard the International Space Station as she initiates the latest Veggie experiment.
View of Nicole Stott as she works to transfer the Mice Drawer System (MDS) from the middeck (MDDK) of Discovery to the JEM Pressurized Module (JPM) during STS-128.
Portrait: Jill Tarter in her office at Ames. She now provides the scientific vision for the SETI Institute. used in Ames 60 yr. History NASA SP-2000-4314
S124-E-007134 (7 June 2008) --- Astronaut Karen Nyberg, STS-124 mission specialist, smiles for a photo as she floats on the middeck of the Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station.
iss067e043342 (May 14, 2022) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 67 Flight Engineer Jessica Watkins checks out gifts she received for her 34th birthday aboard the International Space Station.
iss070e133764 (April 1, 2024) --- Expedition 70 Flght Engineer and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara's image is refracted in a water bubble she squeezed from a drinking bag aboard the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.
Dr. Cila Herman, G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. She is the principal investigator for the Experimental Investigation of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancement in Microgravity in the Presence of Electric Fields.
NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus waves as she is lowered into the water to train for spacewalk in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) on Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in Houston. ( NASA Photo / Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool )
Holly Ridings is a global leader in human spaceflight. She is NASA's first female chief flight director, and currently leads the Gateway Program as its deputy program manager.