
NASA Public Affairs Officer Stephanie Schierholz moderates a briefing where NASA announced the agency’s five-part plan to open the International Space Station to expanded commercial and marketing activities and private astronaut missions to the station and enable additional commercial destinations in low-Earth orbit, Friday, June 7, 2019 at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City. NASA will continue to maintain human presence and research in low-Earth orbit, and the long-term goal is to achieve a robust economy from which NASA can purchase services at a lower cost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Stephanie Schierholz, a press secretary at NASA Headquarters, moderates a NASA briefing on the Artemis I Moon mission, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. NASA’s Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System rocket, and supporting ground systems. Launch of the uncrewed flight test is targeted for no earlier than Monday, Aug. 29. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Stephanie Schierholz, a press secretary at NASA Headquarters, moderates a NASA briefing on the Artemis I Moon mission, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. NASA’s Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System rocket, and supporting ground systems. Launch of the uncrewed flight test is targeted for no earlier than Monday, Aug. 29. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Public Affairs Officer Stephanie Schierholz, standing left, moderates a media briefing with NASA Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWit, left, NASA International Space Station Deputy Director Robyn Gatens, center, and NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate William Gerstenmaier where they announced the agency’s five-part plan to open the International Space Station to expanded commercial and marketing activities and private astronaut missions to the station and enable additional commercial destinations in low-Earth orbit, Friday, June 7, 2019 at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City. NASA will continue to maintain human presence and research in low-Earth orbit, and the long-term goal is to achieve a robust economy from which NASA can purchase services at a lower cost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

From left, NASA Public Affairs Officer Stephanie Schierholz, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Former astronaut Bob Cabana, director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Kathy Lueders, program manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, and Astronaut Mike Fincke, a former commander of the International Space Station, are seen during a news conference where it was announced that Boeing and SpaceX have been selected to transport U.S. crews to and from the International Space Station using the Boeing CST-100 and the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. These Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contracts are designed to complete the NASA certification for a human space transportation system capable of carrying people into orbit. Once certification is complete, NASA plans to use these systems to transport astronauts to the space station and return them safely to Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Stephanie Schierholz, a press secretary at NASA Headquarters, left, moderates a NASA briefing on the Artemis I Moon mission, with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Mike Sarafin, Artemis I mission manager at NASA Headquarters, and Bhavya Lal, associate administrator for technology, policy, and strategy at NASA Headquarters, right, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Also participating remotely were Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis I launch director at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, John Honeycutt, Space Launch System (SLS) program manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and Howard Hu, Orion program manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center. NASA’s Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System rocket, and supporting ground systems. Launch of the uncrewed flight test is targeted for no earlier than Monday, Aug. 29. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Stephanie Schierholz of NASA Communications, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-15 Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

HOUSTON, Texas - jsc2015e031268 - HOUSTON, Texas - NASA's Stephanie Schierholz opens a presentation about the agency's Commercial Crew Program highlighting key development activities, test plans and objectives for achieving certification of two American crew transportation systems with Dr. Ellen Ochoa, director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders, Boeing Space Exploration Vice President and General Manager John Elbon, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell and NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke. Photo credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

In the Press Site auditorium of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Stephanie Schierholz of NASA Communications speaks to media at a post-launch news conference following the liftoff of SpaceX CRS-15. The flight is a commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX CRS-15 lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday, June 29, 2018, at 5:42 a.m. EDT with supplies and materials to support multiple critical science and research investigations.

In the Press Site auditorium of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, from left, Stephanie Schierholz of NASA Communications, Kirk Shireman, manager, International Space Station Program, and Jessica Jensen, Director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX, speak to media at a post-launch news conference following the liftoff of SpaceX CRS-15. The flight is a commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX CRS-15 lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday, June 29, 2018, at 5:42 a.m. EDT with supplies and materials to support multiple critical science and research investigations.

In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, NASA and industry leaders speak to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-14 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Stephanie Schierholz, of NASA Communications, moderates the news conference. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 4:30 p.m. EST, on April 2, 2018. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 14th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

In the Press Site auditorium of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, from left, Stephanie Schierholz of NASA Communications, Kirk Shireman, manager, International Space Station Program, and Jessica Jensen, Director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX, speak to media at a post-launch news conference following the liftoff of SpaceX CRS-15. The flight is a commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX CRS-15 lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday, June 29, 2018, at 5:42 a.m. EDT with supplies and materials to support multiple critical science and research investigations.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Tweetup coordinator Stephanie Schierholz welcomes about 150 tweeters to Juno Tweetup activities inside a tent at the Press Site. The tweeters are at the center for two days of prelaunch activities. Juno is NASA’s mission to Jupiter to study the giant planet and improve our understanding of the planet’s formation and evolution. The tweeters will share their experiences with followers through the social networking site Twitter. Attendees represent 28 states, the District of Columbia and five other countries: Canada, Finland, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom. This is the first time NASA has invited Twitter followers to experience the launch of a planetary spacecraft. The Juno spacecraft is scheduled to launch on an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Aug. 5, at 11:34 a.m. EDT. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/juno. Photo credit: Jim Grossmann

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Members of NASA’s International Space Station science team brief news media representatives in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium in preparation for the launch of the SpaceX CRS-4 mission to resupply the International Space Station. Stephanie Schierholz, NASA Headquarters Office of Communications, served as moderator for the briefing. The mission is the fourth of 12 SpaceX flights NASA contracted with the company to resupply the space station. It will be the fifth trip by a Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory. The spacecraft’s 2.5 tons of supplies, science experiments, and technology demonstrations include critical materials to support 255 science and research investigations that will occur during the station's Expeditions 41 and 42. Liftoff is targeted for an instantaneous window at 2:14 a.m. EDT. To learn more about the mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/index.html Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann

In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, NASA and industry leaders speak to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-14 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. From left, are Stephanie Schierholz, of NASA Communications; Jessica Jensen, director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX; Pete Hasbrook, associate program scientist, ISS Program Science Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston; and Mike McAleenan, weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron. Joining on the phone is Joel Montalbano, deputy manager, ISS Program at Johnson. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 4:30 p.m. EST, on April 2, 2018. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 14th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency and industry leaders speak to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-15 Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. From left are: Stephanie Schierholz of NASA Communications,Kirk Shireman, NASA manager of the International Space Station Program, Jessica Jensen, director of Dragon Mission Management for SpaceX, Mike McAleenan, launch weather officer for the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and David Brady, assistant program scientist for the International Space Station Program. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Stephanie Schierholz, NASA Public Affairs, moderates the ISS Science Panel on Model Organisms for media representatives in Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium in preparation for the launch of the SpaceX CRS-4 mission to resupply the International Space Station. The mission is the fourth of 12 SpaceX flights NASA contracted with the company to resupply the space station. It will be the fifth trip by a Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory. The spacecraft’s 2.5 tons of supplies, science experiments, and technology demonstrations include critical materials to support 255 science and research investigations that will occur during the station's Expeditions 41 and 42. Liftoff is targeted for an instantaneous window at 2:14 a.m. EDT. To learn more about the mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Charles Bolden, NASA administrator, announces the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability CCtCap contract awards designed to complete the NASA certification for human space transportation systems capable of carrying people into orbit. Once certification is complete, NASA plans to use these systems to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station and return them safely to Earth. Speaking from Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site, Bolden detailed the importance of the effort by the agency's Commercial Crew Program for United States space exploration ambitions and the economic potential of creating new markets in space transportation for people. Boeing and SpaceX were awarded contracts to complete the design of the CST-100 and Crew Dragon spacecraft, respectively, and begin manufacturing for flight tests with a goal of achieving certification to take astronauts to the International Space Station by 2017. CCtCap also covers the beginning of operational missions for these new spacecraft and their systems. NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz, former astronaut Bob Cabana, director of Kennedy Space Center, Kathy Lueders, manager of the agency's Commercial Crew Program, and former International Space Station Commander Mike Fincke also took part in the announcement. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Members of NASA’s International Space Station science team brief news media representatives in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium in preparation for the launch of the SpaceX CRS-4 mission to resupply the International Space Station. From left are Stephanie Schierholz, NASA Headquarters Office of Communications, Sam Scimemi, International Space Station Division director of Human Exploration and Operation Mission Directorate, Jeff Sheehy, senior technologist for the Space Technology Mission Directorate, and Ellen Stofan, NASA’s Chief Scientist. The mission is the fourth of 12 SpaceX flights NASA contracted with the company to resupply the space station. It will be the fifth trip by a Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory. The spacecraft’s 2.5 tons of supplies, science experiments, and technology demonstrations include critical materials to support 255 science and research investigations that will occur during the station's Expeditions 41 and 42. Liftoff is targeted for an instantaneous window at 2:14 a.m. EDT. To learn more about the mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/index.html Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Charles Bolden, second from left, NASA administrator, announces the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability CCtCap contract awards designed to complete the NASA certification for human space transportation systems capable of carrying people into orbit. Once certification is complete, NASA plans to use these systems to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station and return them safely to Earth. Speaking from Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site, Bolden detailed the importance of the effort by the agency's Commercial Crew Program for United States space exploration ambitions and the economic potential of creating new markets in space transportation for people. Boeing and SpaceX were awarded contracts to complete the design of the CST-100 and Crew Dragon spacecraft, respectively, and begin manufacturing for flight tests with a goal of achieving certification to take astronauts to the International Space Station by 2017. CCtCap also covers the beginning of operational missions for these new spacecraft and their systems. NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz, from left, former astronaut Bob Cabana, director of Kennedy Space Center, Kathy Lueders, manager of the agency's Commercial Crew Program, and former International Space Station Commander Mike Fincke also took part in the announcement. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Members of NASA’s International Space Station science team brief news media representatives in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium in preparation for the launch of the SpaceX CRS-4 mission to resupply the International Space Station. From left are Stephanie Schierholz, NASA Headquarters Office of Communications, Sam Scimemi, International Space Station Division director of Human Exploration and Operation Mission Directorate, Jeff Sheehy, senior technologist for the Space Technology Mission Directorate, and Ellen Stofan, NASA’s Chief Scientist. The mission is the fourth of 12 SpaceX flights NASA contracted with the company to resupply the space station. It will be the fifth trip by a Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory. The spacecraft’s 2.5 tons of supplies, science experiments, and technology demonstrations include critical materials to support 255 science and research investigations that will occur during the station's Expeditions 41 and 42. Liftoff is targeted for an instantaneous window at 2:14 a.m. EDT. To learn more about the mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/index.html Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz moderates the announcement of the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability CCtCap contract awards designed to complete the NASA certification for human space transportation systems capable of carrying people into orbit. Once certification is complete, NASA plans to use these systems to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station and return them safely to Earth. Speaking from Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden detailed the importance of the effort by the agency's Commercial Crew Program for United States space exploration ambitions and the economic potential of creating new markets in space transportation for people. Boeing and SpaceX were awarded contracts to complete the design of the CST-100 and Crew Dragon spacecraft, respectively, and begin manufacturing for flight tests with a goal of achieving certification to take astronauts to the International Space Station by 2017. CCtCap also covers the beginning of operational missions for these new spacecraft and their systems. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Members of an ISS Science Panel on Model Organisms brief media representatives in Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium in preparation for the launch of the SpaceX CRS-4 mission to resupply the International Space Station. From left are Stephanie Schierholz, NASA Public Affairs, Marshall Porterfield, division director, Space Life and Physical Sciences, HEOMD, Shiela Neilsen, principal investigator, Micro-8, University of Montana, Sharmila Bhattacharya, principal investigator, Ames Student Fruit-Fly Experiment, NASA Ames Research Center, and Ruth Globus, project scientist, Rodent Habitat/Rodent Research-1, NASA Ames. The mission is the fourth of 12 SpaceX flights NASA contracted with the company to resupply the space station. It will be the fifth trip by a Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory. The spacecraft’s 2.5 tons of supplies, science experiments, and technology demonstrations include critical materials to support 255 science and research investigations that will occur during the station's Expeditions 41 and 42. Liftoff is targeted for an instantaneous window at 2:14 a.m. EDT. To learn more about the mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann

KSC-2014-3922 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Former astronaut Bob Cabana, center, director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, speaks at the start of the announcement ceremony to name the providers of the next generation of crewed American spacecraft. Speaking from Kennedy’s Press Site, Cabana detailed the importance of the development effort by the agency's Commercial Crew Program for United States space exploration ambitions and the economic potential of creating new markets in human space transportation. Boeing and SpaceX were awarded contracts to complete the design of the CST-100 and Crew Dragon spacecraft, respectively, and begin manufacturing for flight tests with a goal of achieving certification to take astronauts to the International Space Station by 2017. The Commercial Crew Transportation Capability CCtCap contract also covers the beginning of operational missions for these new spacecraft and their systems. NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz, from left, Charles Bolden, NASA administrator, Kathy Lueders, manager of the agency's Commercial Crew Program, and former International Space Station Commander Mike Fincke also took part in the announcement. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz, from left, listens as Charles Bolden, NASA administrator, speaks with former astronaut Bob Cabana, director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Kathy Lueders, manager of the agency's Commercial Crew Program, before the announcement of the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability CCtCap contract awards designed to complete the NASA certification for human space transportation systems capable of carrying people into orbit. Astronaut and former International Space Station Commander Mike Fincke also took part in the announcement. Once certification is complete, NASA plans to use these systems to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station and return them safely to Earth. Speaking from Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site, Bolden detailed the importance of the effort by the agency's Commercial Crew Program for United States space exploration ambitions and the economic potential of creating new markets in space transportation for people. Boeing and SpaceX were awarded contracts to complete the design of the CST-100 and Crew Dragon spacecraft, respectively, and begin manufacturing for flight tests with a goal of achieving certification to take astronauts to the International Space Station by 2017. CCtCap also covers the beginning of operational missions for these new spacecraft and their systems. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Members of an ISS Science Panel on Model Organisms brief media representatives in Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium in preparation for the launch of the SpaceX CRS-4 mission to resupply the International Space Station. From left are Stephanie Schierholz, NASA Public Affairs, Marshall Porterfield, division director, Space Life and Physical Sciences, HEOMD, Shiela Neilsen, principal investigator, Micro-8, University of Montana, Sharmila Bhattacharya, principal investigator, Ames Student Fruit-Fly Experiment, NASA Ames Research Center, and Ruth Globus, project scientist, Rodent Habitat/Rodent Research-1, NASA Ames. The mission is the fourth of 12 SpaceX flights NASA contracted with the company to resupply the space station. It will be the fifth trip by a Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory. The spacecraft’s 2.5 tons of supplies, science experiments, and technology demonstrations include critical materials to support 255 science and research investigations that will occur during the station's Expeditions 41 and 42. Liftoff is targeted for an instantaneous window at 2:14 a.m. EDT. To learn more about the mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann

Richard Jones, deputy program manager for NASA's Commercial Crew Program seated, second from left, leads a post-launch synopsis briefing with NASA leadership after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-8 mission with NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin onboard, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in the control room of SpaceX’s HangarX at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is the eighth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Dominick, Barratt, Epps, and Grebenkin launched at 10:53 p.m. EST, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)