NASA astronaut Doug Hurley, STS-135 pilot, attired in a training version of his shuttle launch and entry suit, participates in a training session in the fixed-base shuttle mission simulator (SMS).
Doug Hurley is a NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Marine Corps Colonel. He’s flown on two spaceflights and will make a third, historic spaceflight as commander on the Demo-2 flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. He’ll be accompanied by fellow NASA astronaut Robert “Bob” Behnken on the first crewed voyage of the spaceship.
In December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon in the Taurus–Littrow valley.
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir gives a thumbs up after she, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan landed in their Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Friday, April 17, 2020.
International Space Station Commander Jeff Williams set a new U.S. spaceflight record, passing the 520-day endurance record set for cumulative time spent in orbit.
Astronaut Karen Nyberg flew to the space station as a flight engineer for Expedition 36/37.