Yuri's Night 2009 held at the California Acaemy of Sciences in San Francisco, California Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden.
Yuri's Night 2009 held at the California Acaemy of Sciences in San Francisco, California Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden
Yuri's Night 2009 held at the California Acaemy of Sciences in San Francisco, California Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden.
Yuri's Night 2009 held at the California Acaemy of Sciences in San Francisco, California Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden.
Yuri's Night 2009 held at the California Acaemy of Sciences in San Francisco, California. Image show Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and Dana Bolles also of Ames at the beginning of the night's festivities.
2010 Yuri's Night celebration held at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. as part of the world wide celebration of the first man in space and the Space Shuttle program that followed 20 years later. From left to Right, Wizard Lori Garver, Deputy Administrator of NASA, Jack Boyd, Senior Advisor to the Director, Lewis Braxton, III, Deputy Director of Ames Research Center, Klingon S. Pete Worden, Director, Ames Research Center, Karen Bradford, Chief of Staff, Deborah Feng, Director, Center Operations.
JSC2011-E-030087 (31 March 2011) --- The Expedition 27 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures March 31, 2011 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in front of the cottage near the launch pad in which Yuri Gagarin slept the night before he launched April 12, 1961 to become the first human to fly in space. NASA astronaut Ron Garan, flight engineer; Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev, Soyuz commander, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko, flight engineer, will launch April 5 (Kazakhstan time) in their Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft to the International Space Station. Their Soyuz has been dubbed ?Gagarin? in honor of the 50th anniversary of Gagarin?s launch. From left to right are Borisenko, backup crew member Anatoly Ivanishin, Samokutyaev, backup crew member Dan Burbank, Garan and backup crew member Anton Shkaplerov. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Landing lights illuminate the night sky as Space Shuttle Atlantis approaches touchdown on KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility Runway 15 to complete the 9-day, 20-hour, 9-minute-long STS-101 mission. At the controls are Commander James D. Halsell Jr. and Pilot Scott "Doc" Horowitz. Also onboard the orbiter are Mission Specialists Mary Ellen Weber, James S. Voss, Jeffrey N. Williams, Susan J. Helms and Yury Usachev of Russia. The crew is returning from the third flight to the International Space Station. This was the 98th flight in the Space Shuttle program and the 21st for Atlantis, also marking the 51st landing at KSC, the 22nd consecutive landing at KSC, and the 29th in the last 30 Shuttle flights. Main gear touchdown was at 2:20:17 a.m. EDT, landing on orbit 155 of the mission. Nose gear touchdown was at 2:20:30 a.m. EDT, and wheel stop at 2:21:19 a.m. EDT
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Landing lights illuminate the night sky as Space Shuttle Atlantis approaches touchdown on KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility Runway 15 to complete the 9-day, 20-hour, 9-minute-long STS-101 mission. At the controls are Commander James D. Halsell Jr. and Pilot Scott "Doc" Horowitz. Also onboard the orbiter are Mission Specialists Mary Ellen Weber, James S. Voss, Jeffrey N. Williams, Susan J. Helms and Yury Usachev of Russia. The crew is returning from the third flight to the International Space Station. This was the 98th flight in the Space Shuttle program and the 21st for Atlantis, also marking the 51st landing at KSC, the 22nd consecutive landing at KSC, and the 29th in the last 30 Shuttle flights. Main gear touchdown was at 2:20:17 a.m. EDT, landing on orbit 155 of the mission. Nose gear touchdown was at 2:20:30 a.m. EDT, and wheel stop at 2:21:19 a.m. EDT