NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque hanging ceremony and to provide valuable feedback of their on-orbit science investigations with the Payload Operations and Integration Center team. Chris Buckley is awarded privilege of hanging Mission 54 placque, shown here with Astronaut Mark Vande Hei (L) and Astronaut Joe Acaba

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque hanging ceremony and to provide valuable feedback of their on-orbit science investigations with the Payload Operations and Integration Center team. Astronauts Mark Vande Hei (L) and Astronaut Joe Acaba sign autographs for Kassandra Stephens

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque hanging ceremony and to provide valuable feedback of their on-orbit science investigations with the Payload Operations and Integration Center team. Astronauts Mark Vande Hei (L) and Astronaut Joe Acaba sign autographs for Samantha Gurley.

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque hanging ceremony and to provide valuable feedback of their on-orbit science investigations with the Payload Operations and Integration Center team. Payload Operations Director Phillipia Simmons with Astronauts Joe Acaba (L) and Mark Vande Hei

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque hanging ceremony and to provide valuable feedback of their on-orbit science investigations with the Payload Operations and Integration Center team. Astronauts Mark Vande Hei (L) and Astronaut Joe Acaba sign autographs for Lori Meggs.

Increment 60 plaque hanging in the Payload Operations Operation Integration (POC) facility. Dwight Mosby holding the Increment 60 plaque along with Kira Thomas and Christian Bonner who hung the plaque.

LISA PRENDERGAST HANGS INCREMENT 44 PLAQUE, BECKY GRIMALDI, ASTRONAUTS KIMIYA YUI, AND KJELL LINDGREN ALSO PICTURED

LISA PRENDERGAST HANGS INCREMENT 44 PLAQUE, BECKY GRIMALDI, ASTRONAUTS KIMIYA YUI, AND KJELL LINDGREN ALSO PICTURED

Expedition 59 Astronaut David Saint-Jaques visits Marshall Space Flight Center's Payload Operations Integration Center where Operations Controller Halley Chang hangs the Expedition 59 plaque with the help of Timeline Change Officer Kira Thomas along with David Saint-Jaques.

Expedition 59 Astronaut David Saint-Jaques visits Marshall Space Flight Center's Payload Operations Integration Center where Operations Controller Halley Chang hangs the Expedition 59 plaque with the help of Timeline Change Officer Kira Thomas along with David Saint-Jaques.

Space Station expedition 50/51 crew member Thomas Pesquet hangs a commemorative plaque in the Payload Operation Integration Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Stephanie Shelton, a payload communications manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, joins NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei for a call to the onboard crew of the International Space Station. Vande Hei and Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque hanging ceremony and to provide valuable feedback of their on-orbit science investigations with the Payload Operations and Integration Center team..

RETIRED NASA ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY, LEFT, AND PAYLOAD PLANNING MANAGER TONY PITTMAN PAUSE FOR A PHOTO BEFORE HANGING THE MISSION PATCH FOR EXPEDITION 46 ON THE WALL OF THE PAYLOAD OPERATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER

ASTRONAUT KJELL LINDGREN SHAKES HANDS WITH BRETT BOULDIN

ASTRONAUT KIMIYA YUI SHAKES HANDS WITH BRETT BOULDIN

ASTRONAUT KIMIYA YUI SHAKES HANDS WITH PAYLOAD RACK OFFICER ROBERT TRIMBLE

NASA ASTRONAUTS RICHARD MASTRACCHIO, LEFT, AND MICHAEL HOPKINS FLANK ED LITKENHOUS, A PAYLOAD ACTIVITY REQUIREMENTS COORDINATOR IN THE PAYLOAD OPERATIONS AND INTEGRATION CENTER (POIC), AS HE HANGS THE ASTRONAUTS' MISSION PLAQUE ON THE WALL OF THE POIC IN THE MARSHALL CENTER'S BUILDING 4663. THE PLAQUE JOINED THE LOGOS FROM PREVIOUS MISSIONS HANGING AROUND THE ROOM, RECOGNIZING THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE ORBITING ASTRONAUTS AND THE HUNTSVILLE-BASED TEAM

The Artemis plaque is attached to the wall in Firing Room 1 of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a ceremony on March 24, 2023. Hanging the plaque on the wall are Elliot Payne (left) and Devin Aikman (right), members of the Arms and Umbilicals engineering team. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I launched successfully from Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39B at 1:47 a.m. EST on Nov. 16, 2022.

s83-46015 Views of the Mission Control Center activity of Eidophor with STS-9 Landing Data; PAO Console ith Steve Nesbitt and Harold S. Stall; FD Console with Charles Lewis and Ralph Hoodless, Lewis and M.P. "Pete" Frank; and the hanging of the STS-9 Plaque

NASA ASTRONAUT CHRIS CASSIDY, A FLIGHT ENGINEER FOR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION EXPEDITION 36, VISITED THE MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER JAN. 22 TO THANK MARSHALL TEAM MEMBERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF NASA’S ONGOING MISSION IN SPACE; TO HANG A MISSION PLAQUE IN THE PAYLOAD OPERATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER; AND TO GREET WORKERS, SIGN AUTOGRAPHS AND TALK ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES DURING HIS FIVE AND A HALF MONTHS ON ORBIT.

RYAN MILLER, RIGHT, LEAD PAYLOAD PLANNING MANAGER FOR EXPEDITION 39/40 WITH THE PAYLOAD OPERATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER AT THE MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, HELPS NASA ASTRONAUT REID WISEMAN PREPARE TO AUTOGRAPH THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION EXPEDITION 40 MISSION PLAQUE HANGING IN THE POIC. WISEMAN VISITED THE MARSHALL CENTER DEC. 11 FOR A MEETING WITH THE MARSHALL-BASED PAYLOAD OPERATIONS TEAM HE WORKED WITH DURING HIS SIX MONTHS ON THE ORBITING LABORATORY, DISCUSSING THE FINER POINTS OF THE INVESTIGATIONS PERFORMED ON THE SPACE STATION FROM JUNE THROUGH NOVEMBER 2014.

Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director Kelvin Manning, at right, presents the Chroniclers award to Robert E. Granath during a ceremony on May 1, 2023, recognizing retired members of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. At left is Granath’s wife, June. Granath was honored along with Mark Kramer and Red Huber with a plaque on the “Chroniclers” wall at Kennedy’s NASA News Center in Florida. The honorees were nominated by other members of the news media and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters. They join the list of 79 other Kennedy Chroniclers whose names hang proudly on the wall in the “Bull Pen,” the NASA News Center room where media traditionally gather to research and file their stories during launches.

Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director Kelvin Manning, at right, presents the Chroniclers award to Red Huber during a ceremony on May 1, 2023, recognizing retired members of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. Kramer was honored along with Robert E. Granath and Mark Kramer with a plaque on the “Chroniclers” wall at Kennedy’s NASA News Center in Florida. The honorees were nominated by other members of the news media and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters. They join the list of 79 other Kennedy Chroniclers whose names hang proudly on the wall in the “Bull Pen,” the NASA News Center room where media traditionally gather to research and file their stories during launches.

Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director Kelvin Manning, at right, presents the Chroniclers award to Mark Kramer during a ceremony on May 1, 2023, recognizing retired members of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. Kramer was honored along with Robert E. Granath and Red Huber with a plaque on the “Chroniclers” wall at Kennedy’s NASA News Center in Florida. The honorees were nominated by other members of the news media and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters. They join the list of 79 other Kennedy Chroniclers whose names hang proudly on the wall in the “Bull Pen,” the NASA News Center room where media traditionally gather to research and file their stories during launches.

Plaques bearing the names of this year’s Chroniclers honorees are in view in the far right panel, last three names, during a ceremony on May 1, 2023 at the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This year’s honorees are Robert E. Granath, Red Huber, and Mark Kramer. The trio were honored as latest members of the Chroniclers, nominated by other members of the news media and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters. The Chroniclers award recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. The inductees join the list of 79 other Kennedy Chroniclers whose names hang proudly on the wall in the “Bull Pen,” the NASA News Center room where media traditionally gather to research and file their stories during launches.

Chroniclers honorees unveil plaques bearing their names during a ceremony on May 1, 2023 at the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From left are Robert E. Granath, Mark Kramer, and Red Huber. The trio were honored as latest members of the Chroniclers, nominated by other members of the news media and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters. The Chroniclers award recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. The inductees join the list of 79 other Kennedy Chroniclers whose names hang proudly on the wall in the “Bull Pen,” the NASA News Center room where media traditionally gather to research and file their stories during launches.