RM2PHR9BB–Astronaut Portrait of ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano
RM2PHR9B2–NASA Astronaut Portrait - Expedition 57/58 Crew Member Drew Morgan
RM2PHR9AW–NASA Astronaut Portrait, Expedition 57/58 Crew Member Nick Hague
RM2PHR9F6–Astronauts, commander, Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module Pilot, Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Apollo 11 crew
RM2PHR9EJ–Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut Edwin E. 'Buzz' Aldrin Jr.
RM2M79RRT–Story Musgrave, Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) American physician and a retired NASA astronaut.
RM2KB40B9–The Apollo 7 crew is welcomed aboard Essex, 1968
RM2K8REWH–Official portrait of astronaut Guion S. Bluford. Bluford, a member of Astronaut Class 8 and the United States Air Force (USAF), poses in his launch and entry suit (LES) holding a launch and entry helmet (LEH) with the United States flag as a backdrop.
RM2K8RETX–Ellen Ochoa (b. 1958) American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center.
RM2K8REX0–Astronaut Philip K. Chapman. Philip Kenyon Chapman (1935 – 2021) was the first Australian-born American astronaut, serving for about five years in NASA Astronaut Group 6 (1967).
RM2K8REWP–NASA Astronauts, Standing: Mission Specialists Robert L. Stewart, Ronald McNair and Bruce McCandless II. Stewart and McCandless are wearing Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs). Seated: Vance D. Brand and Robert L. Gibson
RM2K7XGWM–Portrait of Margaret W. “Hap’ Brennecke. Brennecke was a metallurgist and welding engineer in the Materials and Processes Laboratory at Marshall. First female welding engineer
RM2K7XH1C–The Mercury 7 astronauts examine their 'couches.' Each astronaut's couch was molded to fit his body to help withstand the G-loads of the launch. Plaster casts of the astronauts were created in order to properly mold the couches. Left to right are Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Walter Schirra, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Deke Slayton, Gus Grissom and Bob Gilruth. Gilruth was director of the Space Task Group, which planned and managed the Mercury Project.
RM2K7XGYG–Astronaut Scott Edward Parazynski
RM2K7XGPP–Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, STS 41-B mission specialist, participates in a historical spacewalk. He is pictured a few meters away from the cabin of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger. This spacewalk represented the first use of a nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled device called the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), which allows for much greater mobility than that afforded previous space walkers who had to use restrictive tethers. Bruce McCandless II demonstrates the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), floating in space above a clouded Earth.
RM2K7XH19–Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 flight engineer, dons a training version of the full-pressure launch and entry suit prior to a training session in one of the trainer/mockups (out of frame) in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Suit technician Andre Denard assists Ochoa. STS-110 was the 13th shuttle mission to visit the International Space Station (ISS).
RM2K7XH23–Astronaut Ed White performed the first American spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965. Astronaut Ed White, pilot for the Gemini-Titan 4 (GT-4) spaceflight, floats in the zero-gravity of space during the third revolution of the GT-4 spacecraft.
RM2K7XH22–John H. Glenn, Jr. - NASA Project Mercury Astronaut.
RM2K7XGY3–President John F. Kennedy presents astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. with NASA's Distinguished Service Medal Award in a Rose Garden ceremony on May 8, 1961, at the White House. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, NASA Administrator James E. Webb and several NASA astronauts are in the background. Just three weeks later, Kennedy would commit America to landing a man on the moon before the end of the decade. Image Credit: NASA
RM2K7XGYE–Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr., Apollo 12 command module pilot, participates in simulation training at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Oct. 22, 1969.
RM2K7XH2D–Dr. Wernher von Braun briefs Astronaut John Glenn in the control room of the Vehicle Test Section, Quality Assurance Division, Marshall Space Flight Center
RM2K7XH26–Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., suited with hose to suit ventilation unit attached, during altitude chamber test. He is standing in the entrance to the test chamber with his helmet visor down.
RM2K7XGYB–NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (left), Expedition 43/44 flight engineer and Expedition 45/46 commander; and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, Expedition 43-46 flight engineer
RM2K7XH18–Astronaut Donald K. 'Deke' Slayton was the docking module pilot for the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. Donald Kent 'Deke' Slayton (1924 – 1993) a United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, and test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts. He went on to become NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office and Director of Flight Crew Operations, responsible for NASA crew assignments.
RM2K7XGXK–Astronaut candidate Jessica U. Meir
RM2K7XGRT–Payload specialists representing Canada and the European Space Agency (CSA - ESA) join five NASA astronauts for the January 1992 scheduled STS-42 mission. Left to right are astronauts Stephen S. Oswald, pilot; Roberta L. Bondar, payload specialist; Norman E. Thagard, payload commander; Ronald J. Grabe, mission commander; David C. Hilmers, mission specialist; Ulf Merbold, payload specialist; and William F. Readdy, mission specialist.
RM2K7XGR4–Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., Gemini VI commander, suits up during water egress training aboard the NASA Motor Vessel Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico. This training prepared the astronauts for exiting the capsule after landing in the ocean.
RM2K7XGP5–Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) see the world at night on every orbit — that’s 16 times each crew day.
RM2K7XGWP–Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, deploys components of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package during the first Apollo 12 spacewalk on the moon.
RM2K7XGWN–Apollo astronauts, left to right, Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, pose in front of Launch Complex 34, which housed the Saturn 1 rocket scheduled for the Apollo 1 mission. The mission was to be the first crewed flight of the Apollo program with a planned launch on Feb. 21, 1967. On Jan. 27, tragedy struck on the launch pad during a preflight test. Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee lost their lives when a fire swept through the command module.
RM2K7XGRF–ASTRONAUTS WITH DR. VON BRAUN AND DR. HOLMES This week in 1962, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Director Dr. Wernher von Braun met with five astronauts and Brainerd Holmes, NASA associate administrator for Manned Space Flight, at Marshall. From left are Elliot See, Tom Stafford, Wally Schirra, John Glenn, Holmes, von Braun and Jim Lovell. NASA officials and astronauts often traveled to Marshall to meet with von Braun.
RM2K7XGY0–Astronaut Scott Carpenter stands in front of the Mercury Control Center at Cape Canaveral. Carpenter was the pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission aboard Aurora 7, which launched May 24, 1962. Image credit: NASA
RM2K7XH0Y–Astronaut candidate Lt. Victor J. Glover
RM2K7XGP0–On Nov. 6, 2015, NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren spent 7 hours and 48 minutes working outside the International Space Station on the 190th spacewalk in support of station assembly and maintenance. The astronauts restored the port truss (P6) ammonia cooling system to its original configuration, the main task for the spacewalk. They also returned ammonia to the desired levels in both the prime and back-up systems. The spacewalk was the second for both astronauts. Crew members have now spent a total of 1,192 hours and 4 minutes working outside the orbital laboratory.
RM2K7XGPX–Astronaut Vance D. Brand
RM2K7XGX6–Astronaut David R. Scott, commander, standing on the slope of Hadley Delta, uses a 70mm camera during Apollo 15 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface, July 31, 1971. He is 10.5 miles (or 17.5 kilometers) from the base of the Apennine Mountains seen in the background. Scott carries tongs in his left hand. The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is in the background.
RM2K7XGPF–NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, Expedition 39 flight engineer, works out on the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station on April 11, 2014
RM2K7XH1M–Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon near the leg of the lunar module Eagle during the Apollo 11 mission. Mission commander Neil Armstrong took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin explored the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins remained with the command and service modules in lunar orbit.
RM2K7XGP3–Astronaut Scientist William E. Thornton
RM2K7XGXF–Official Portrait of NASA astronaut Raja Chari in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU).
RM2K7XGYH–Astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and John W. Young participated in the first crewed Gemini flight, Gemini III.
RM2K7XH12–Astronaut candidate Josh A. Cassada
RM2K7XGWT–HUS-1 helicopter attempting to recover the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft. The recovery ship USS Randolph is visible in the distance.
RM2K7XGWX–A volunteer 'astronaut' starts down an exit slide from a Space Shuttle crew compartment mockup during a rescue and recovery training exercise. While fire-rescue personnel prepare evacuation litters, two stand-in 'astronauts' prepare to use an exit slide from a Shuttle mockup during a rescue training exercise.
RM2K7XH17–Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., wearing a Mercury pressure suit, is photographed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during preflight training activities for the Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) mission.
RM2K7XH1F–Astronaut John Glenn - Official portrait photograph of Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., the first American to orbit the Earth in a Project Mercury Spacecraft.
RM2K7XGR9–Astronaut candidate Lt. Tyler N. Hague
RM2K7XH1K–Astronaut Edwin E. 'Buzz' Aldrin, prime crew pilot of the Gemini XII spaceflight, undergoes evaluation procedures with the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit in the 30-foot altitude chamber at McDonnell Aircraft. The Astronaut Maneuvering Unit subsequently was deleted from the mission so Aldrin could demonstrate basic spacewalk capabilities required for Apollo missions.
RM2K7XH16–Duane Edgar 'Doc' Graveline (1931 – 2016) American physician and NASA astronaut. He was one of the six scientists selected in 1965, in NASA's fourth group of astronauts, for the Apollo program.
RM2K7XGXB–Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, pilot, is seen in the Gemini VI spacecraft in the White Room atop Pad 19 before the closing of the hatches during the prelaunch countdown.
RM2K7XGX8–Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. (right), commander, and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, are suited up for a manned altitude run in the Apollo 14 Lunar Module (LM).
RM2K7XGRG–Astronaut Paul J. Weitz, pilot for the Skylab 2 first manned mission, is suited up for Skylab training activity in the mission simulation and training facility at the Manned Spacecraft Center
RM2K7XH4R–Alan Shepard – one of NASA's first seven astronauts – became the first American in space. President John F. Kennedy, right, awards NASA's Distinguished Service Medal to astronaut Shepard in a Rose Garden ceremony on May 8, 1961, at the White House. In the background are the other members of the Mercury Seven, NASA's original astronauts.
RM2K7XH1P–President John F. Kennedy pins a NASA Distinguished Service Medal on astronaut John Glenn Jr. following his historic three-orbit flight, Mercury-Atlas 6. The ceremony was held in front of Hangar S at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
RM2K7XH1J–Astronaut candidate Dr. Andrew Morgan
RM2K7XGXJ–Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot, collects lunar rake samples at Station 1 during the mission's first spacewalk at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.
RM2K7XGX9–Apollo 15 astronauts Jim Iwrin and David Scott deployed the first Lunar Roving Vehicle on the moon. During their 67-hour stay, they used the rover to make three separate trips beyond the Hadley-Apennine landing site. Here, Irwin salutes the American flag while standing beside the Lunar Module and rover.
RM2K7XGX5–Liberty Bell 7 capsule during recovery in 1999
RM2K7XH1G–Astronaut candidate Major Anne C. McClain
RM2K7XGXP–Neil Armstrong, portrait of Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong
RM2K7XGX3–Astronaut William R. Pogue, pilot of the Skylab 4 mission, relaxes during spacesuit pressure and fit checks at the Kennedy Space Center
RM2K7XH29–Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper
RM2K7XGY6–Astronaut William R. Pogue, pilot of the Skylab 4 mission
RM2K7XGXN–Astronaut candidate Major Nicole Aunapu Mann
RM2K7XGX0–Astronaut James A. McDivitt, McDivitt commanded Gemini IV, the second crewed Gemini flight, and Apollo 9, which tested the first lunar module in Earth orbit.
RM2K7XH1R–Gemini III crew members Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom (left) and John W. Young are wearing their spacesuits, helmets and portable air conditioners.
RM2K7XGNY–Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 lunar module pilot stands by the deployed U.S. flag on the lunar surface during the early moments of the mission's first spacewalk.
RM2K7XH1E–Philip Kenyon Chapman (1935 – 2021) first Australian-born American astronaut, serving for about five years in NASA Astronaut Group 6 (1967). In this image from 1968, Dr. Chapman trains in the Lunar Module Simulator, Centrifuge, and the Apollo Mission Simulator
RM2K7XH21–Hurricane Dorian as seen from space
RM2K7XGP2–NASA astronaut Kayla Barron peered out from a window inside the cupola, the International Space Station's 'window to the world.' Prominent station components in this photograph include the Kibo laboratory module and its external pallet, the Japanese robotic arm, and the Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module.
RM2K7XGXC–Expedition 44/45 astronaut Kjell Lindgren in EMU
RM2K7XGNT–Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity. Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, took this picture. The Lunar Module 'Orion' is on the left. The Lunar Roving Vehicle is parked beside Orion and the object behind Young (in the shadow of the Lunar Module) is the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph. Stone Mountain dominates the background of this lunar scene. Image Credit: NASA
RM2K7XGXE–Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission.
RM2K7XGY2–Mission commander Alan Shepard assembles a double core tube. Astronauts Shepard and lunar module pilot Edgar D. Mitchell, who took this photograph, explored the lunar surface while astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, orbited the moon.
RM2K7XH1A–Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. (left); Dr. William Douglas, astronauts' flight surgeon; and equipment specialist Joe Schmitt leave crew quarters prior to Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) mission. Glenn is in his pressure suit and is carrying the portable ventilation unit.
RM2K7XH0T–Official portrait of Congressman Bill Nelson, U.S. House of Representatives - Florida, STS 61-C payload specialist.
RM2K7XH25–President John F. Kennedy, astronaut John Glenn and General Leighton I. Davis ride together during a parade in Cocoa Beach, Fla., after Glenn's historic first U.S. orbital spacefight.
RM2K7XGXR–Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. sits in his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, ready for launch.
RM2K7XH1X–Astronaut nurse Delores B. O'Hara, R.N., in the Aeromedical Laboratory at Cape Canaveral, Florida, takes a blood sample from Mercury astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.
RM2K7XH1T–Astronaut candidate, class of 1990, Ellen Ochoa takes familiarization ride in a NASA T-38 jet trainer. Dr. Ellen Ochoa, a veteran astronaut, was the 11th director of the Johnson Space Center. She was JSC's first Hispanic director, and its second female director.
RM2K7XGXD–Astronaut Gus Grissom climbs into 'Liberty Bell 7' spacecraft before launch on the morning of July 21, 1961. Astronaut John Glenn, Grissom's back up, helps him into the capsule.
RM2K7XH1H–Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 6 Earth-orbital space mission, is suited up at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during MA-6 preflight activities. Assisting Glenn is suit technician Al Rochford.
RM2K7XH1B–Jerrie Cobb poses next to a Mercury spaceship capsule. And, although she never flew in space, Cobb, along with 24 other women, underwent physical tests similar to those taken by the Mercury astronauts with the belief that she might become an astronaut trainee.
RM2K7XH15–On Challenger's middeck, Mission Specialist Guion 'Guy' Bluford, assists Dr. William E. Thornton (out of frame) with a medical test that requires use of the treadmill exercising device designed for spaceflight by the STS-8 medical doctor on Sept. 5, 1983. Forward lockers with data recording units and checklist notebooks are to the left of Bluford. Guy Bluford was the first African-American astronaut to fly into space.
RM2K7XGYC–NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-2 Commander Shane Kimbrough.
RM2K7XGRK–Astronaut Al Worden, command module pilot on the Apollo 15 lunar landing
RM2K7XGXX–A volunteer 'astronaut' starts down an exit slide from a Space Shuttle crew compartment mockup during a rescue and recovery training exercise. While fire-rescue personnel prepare evacuation litters, two stand-in 'astronauts' prepare to use an exit slide from a Shuttle mockup during a rescue training exercise.
RM2K7XH24–Astronaut John Glenn Jr. speaks after being honored by President John F. Kennedy following Glenn's historic three-orbit flight, Mercury-Atlas 6. The ceremony was held in front of Hangar S at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
RM2K7XGNX–Piloted by astronauts Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton, the prototype space shuttle Enterprise settles toward the main runway at Edwards Air Force Base on its final Approach and Landing Test flight on Oct. 26, 1977.
RM2K7XH14–Gus Grissom is hoisted to safety following the sinking of Liberty Bell 7 NASA Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second United States human spaceflight, on July 21, 1961. The suborbital Project Mercury flight was launched with a Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, MRLV-8. The spacecraft, Mercury capsule #11, was nicknamed the Liberty Bell 7. It was piloted by astronaut Virgil 'Gus' Grissom.
RM2K7XGX1–Mary Jackson. Mary Jackson (1921 – 2005) American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
RM2K7XH3R–Portrait of new astronaut candidate Josh A. Cassada
RM2K7XH1N–NASA astronaut Don Pettit
RM2K7XGWY–Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti aboard in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022.
RM2K7XGYF–Portrait of Samuel J. Scott working in the Office of Directors for Structures NASA Langley. Photograph taken May 1977. Samuel J. Scott (1938 – 2021) engineer who was among the first four black engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in 1962
RM2K7XH1D–Portrait of Astronaut Dick Gordon. Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr.
RM2K7XH28–Astronaut Christina Koch Official EMU Portrait. Official portrait of NASA astronaut Christina Koch.
RM2K7XGX7–New York City, New York viewed from space
RM2K7XH1W–Gus Grissom, NASA portrait of Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom. Virgil Ivan 'Gus' Grissom (1926 – 1967) American engineer, pilot in the United States Air Force, and member of the Mercury Seven selected by National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) as Project Mercury astronauts to be the first Americans in outer space.
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