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ALT A photo of Dr. Yaítza Luna-Cruz, who is wearing a white top and smiling at the camera. Behind her is a giant globe of Earth. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber
ALT Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, STS-41G mission specialist, gets some help with her extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) prior to participating in an underwater simulation of an extravehicular activity (EVA) scheduled for her flight aboard the Columbia in October 1984. Dr. Sullivan participated in the rehearsal in NASA’s weightless environment training facility (WET-F) at Johnson Space Center.
ALT View of Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan performing an EVA in the payload bay of Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41G mission.
ALT Exp-071 Post-flight News Conference with Tracy Dyson. Photo credit: NASA
ALT The lower half of Europa Clipper’s vault plate, showing the poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (lower right), a drawing representing the Jovian system that will host the names of 2.6 million people flying with mission on a microchip (top right), a tribute to planetary scientist Ron Greeley (bottom left), and the radio emission lines known a the ‘Water Hole’ (center). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
ALT Selfie of Julie smiling in front of a window looking into a clean room. The PACE spacecraft is visible behind her in the clean room. It's a large, mostly silver, roughly rectangular instrument with black and gold solar panels folded on one side.
ALT Sen. Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV), delivers remarks during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony recognizing NASA’s Hidden Figures, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Senator Capito is speaking at a podium in front of a large marble statue, and several American flags are also placed in front of the statue.
ALT The Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of Katherine Johnson in recognition of her service to the United States as a Mathematician is seen during a ceremony recognizing NASA’s Hidden Figures, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Katherine Johnson’s family accepted this gold medal on her behalf. The medal is gold and sits in a small display chest.
ALT NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members (pictured from left to right) NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi
ALT NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jessica Wittner standing in front of a NASA T-38 jet.
ALT Close-up image of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jessica Wittner standing in front of a NASA T-38 jet.
ALT A NASA T-38 jet above the clouds, taken from another NASA T-38 jet.
ALT A view of the Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo building at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/David DeHoyos
ALT Women of Apollo pose with NASA panelists during the "Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo" celebration in the Teague auditorium at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz
ALT A member of Dorothy Vaughan's family participates in a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly named Building 12 at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Credit: NASA/David DeHoyos
ALT A portrait of Dorothy Vaughan, a mathematician, computer programmer, and NASA’s first Black manager. Credit: NASA
ALT Dr. Begoña Vila, a woman with shoulder length dark hair, wears a red shirt, and stands, with her arms crossed in front of the clean room observation area at NASA Goddard. Behind her in the cleanroom is space hardware.
ALT A pile of bricks produced using mycelium, yard waste and wood chips. The bricks resemble traditional white bricks in shape and size, but have an inlaid squiggly pattern. Six bricks in all are visible, haphazardly stacked atop one another. Credit: NASA
ALT Astronaut Sally K. Ride, mission specialist on the STS-7 space shuttle mission, monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on the Flight Deck. Floating in front of her is a flight procedures notebook. Credit: NASA