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Artemis V

Artemis V Orion Crew Module

A photographer captures the Artemis V Orion crew module inside the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center. Artemis V is planned to carry a crew to the Gateway lunar space station and include a landing near the Moon's south pole using a SpaceX Starship human landing system, continuing NASA's plan to build toward a sustained human presence on the Moon.

Program

Artemis

Location

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Astronaut

Not identified

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Camera not recorded

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Artemis III

Artemis III Orion Crew Module

Technicians work on the Artemis III Orion crew module inside the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center, preparing the spacecraft planned to carry the next astronauts to walk on the Moon. Artemis III is targeting a landing near the lunar south pole, a region never explored by the Apollo astronauts and of particular interest for its permanently shadowed craters, which are thought to hold deposits of water ice.

Program

Artemis

Location

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Astronaut

Not identified

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Camera not recorded

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Artemis IV

Artemis IV Orion Crew Module

The Artemis IV Orion crew module in work inside the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center, ahead of a mission planned to dock with the Gateway lunar space station. Artemis IV is expected to be the first mission to visit Gateway, the small outpost NASA and its international partners are assembling in orbit around the Moon to support long-term lunar exploration.

Program

Artemis

Location

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Astronaut

Not identified

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Artemis III

Official Portrait of Randy Bresnik

NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik is assigned to command Artemis III. A former U.S. Marine Corps pilot, Bresnik previously flew aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-129 in 2009 and later commanded the International Space Station during Expedition 53 in 2017.

Program

Artemis

Location

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Astronaut

Randy Bresnik

Camera

Camera not recorded

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Artemis III

Official Portrait of Luca Parmitano

European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano is assigned as pilot of Artemis III. A former Italian Air Force pilot, Parmitano has flown two long-duration missions to the International Space Station, commanding Expedition 61 in 2019.

Program

Artemis

Location

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Astronaut

Luca Parmitano

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Artemis III

Official Portrait of Andre Douglas

NASA astronaut Andre Douglas is assigned as a mission specialist on Artemis III. A former U.S. Coast Guard officer and engineer, Douglas joined NASA's astronaut corps in 2021, and Artemis III is set to be his first spaceflight.

Program

Artemis

Location

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Astronaut

Andre Douglas

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Artemis III

Official Portrait of Frank Rubio

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is assigned as a mission specialist on Artemis III. A former U.S. Army flight surgeon and helicopter pilot, Rubio previously set the record for the longest single spaceflight by an American, spending 371 days aboard the International Space Station after a coolant leak extended his 2022-2023 mission.

Program

Artemis

Location

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Astronaut

Frank Rubio

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Artemis II

Official Portrait of Reid Wiseman

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, commander of Artemis II, previously served as a flight engineer aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 40/41 in 2014. As commander, he leads the first crewed mission of NASA's Artemis campaign, a flight that carried astronauts around the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17.

Program

Artemis

Location

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Astronaut

Reid Wiseman

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Artemis II

Official Portrait of Victor Glover

NASA astronaut Victor Glover serves as pilot of Artemis II. A former U.S. Navy test pilot, Glover previously flew as pilot of SpaceX Crew-1 in 2020, becoming the first Black astronaut to serve as a long-duration crew member aboard the International Space Station. On Artemis II, he became the first person of color to travel beyond low Earth orbit toward the Moon.

Program

Artemis

Location

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Astronaut

Victor Glover

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Artemis II

Official Portrait of Christina Koch

NASA astronaut and engineer Christina Koch serves as a mission specialist on Artemis II. She previously set the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, spending 328 days aboard the International Space Station in 2019 and 2020, and took part in the first all-female spacewalk. On Artemis II, Koch became the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit.

Program

Artemis

Location

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Astronaut

Christina Koch

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Artemis II

Official Portrait of Jeremy Hansen

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen serves as a mission specialist on Artemis II. A former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, Hansen became the first Canadian and the first non-American ever to travel beyond low Earth orbit.

Program

Artemis

Location

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Astronaut

Jeremy Hansen

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SpaceX Demo-2

Liftoff of SpaceX Demo-2

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying Crew Dragon Endeavour lifts off on Demo-2, the first crewed flight of a commercial orbital spacecraft. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley flew to the International Space Station aboard a vehicle built and operated by SpaceX, ending nearly nine years in which the United States had no domestic way to launch its own astronauts following the Space Shuttle's retirement in 2011.

Program

International Space Station

Location

Cape Canaveral, Florida

Astronaut

Not identified

Camera

Camera not recorded

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International Space Station

Robert Behnken Before Demo-2

Astronaut Robert Behnken speaks to media ahead of the SpaceX Demo-2 launch. Behnken and crewmate Doug Hurley flew Crew Dragon Endeavour to the International Space Station in May 2020, the first crewed flight of a commercial spacecraft and the first launch of American astronauts from American soil since the Space Shuttle's retirement in 2011.

Program

International Space Station

Location

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Astronaut

Robert Behnken

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International Space Station

Douglas Hurley Before Demo-2

Astronaut Douglas Hurley speaks to media ahead of the SpaceX Demo-2 launch. Hurley had flown the final Space Shuttle mission, STS-135, in 2011, and returned nine years later as pilot of Crew Dragon Endeavour, bookending the gap between the Shuttle's retirement and the first crewed flight of a commercial American spacecraft.

Program

International Space Station

Location

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Astronaut

Douglas Hurley

Camera

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Hubble Space Telescope

Pillars of Creation

A high-definition revisit of the iconic 'Pillars of Creation' in the Eagle Nebula, captured in 2015 by the Hubble Space Telescope, the observatory deployed by STS-31. Hubble's original 1995 image of these towering columns of gas and dust, located about 7,000 light-years from Earth, became one of the most famous astronomical photographs ever taken, and this sharper follow-up used a newer camera to reveal the star-forming region in even greater detail.

Program

Space Shuttle

Location

Eagle Nebula

Astronaut

Not identified

Camera

Hubble Wide Field Camera 3

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SpaceX CRS-1

Launch of SpaceX CRS-1

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft climbs into the night sky on CRS-1, the first operational flight of NASA's Commercial Resupply Services program. The mission marked the start of routine cargo deliveries to the International Space Station by private companies, a shift that freed NASA to focus its own resources on deep-space exploration while commercial partners handled Earth-orbit logistics.

Program

International Space Station

Location

Cape Canaveral, Florida

Astronaut

Not identified

Camera

Camera not recorded

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Space Shuttle

Christopher Ferguson After Landing

Astronaut Chris Ferguson examines Atlantis's thermal tiles after STS-135, the final Space Shuttle flight, which he commanded in July 2011. Ferguson later joined Boeing to help develop the CST-100 Starliner, one of the commercial spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station after the Shuttle's retirement.

Program

Space Shuttle

Location

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Astronaut

Christopher Ferguson

Camera

Camera not recorded

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STS-135

Launch of STS-135

Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-135, the 135th and final flight of the Space Shuttle program. The four-person crew delivered a year's worth of supplies to the International Space Station, and Atlantis's landing at Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011, closed out thirty years of Shuttle operations and left the United States without its own means of launching astronauts until commercial crew vehicles began flying nearly a decade later.

Program

Space Shuttle

Location

Cape Canaveral, Florida

Astronaut

Not identified

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Camera not recorded

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