Same vehicle that visited Barack!
Here we arrive at analogue-Moon, aka the “Rockyard”
The view out the lower bubble.
Me in the driver's seat
Navigating some lava
Suspension system viewout out an open suit port
Faith 7
Moon rocks on display
ONE AWESOME PIECE OF HARDWARE
STS-125 public debriefing
Astronauts going down into the Neutral Bouyancy Tank to practice a spacewalk on ISS.
Space Station mockup in the NBL
The NBL's 40-foot-deep tank
ISS simulator
Mockup building materials...looks familiar.
Canadarm simulator
Me in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility, Building 9
Soyuz simulator
Shuttle MCC
Space station MCC
Apollo MCC console
Full-orbiter simulator
ISS Mission Control Center!
Me with Gene Kranz
Best Texas roadsign ever.
Me with Chris Kraft
Walter Cunningham speaks to us in front of the Saturn V
Movie night on the Saturn!
I took this picture of the International Space Station with a handheld camera during an overhead pass in Houston. The fact that you can see some ISS structure in the photo - even though it's distorted from my hands shaking - is a testament to just how BIG the station is now!
Hubble Space Telescope mockup for astronaut training
Switches in the Space Shuttle middeck.
This is my favorite sign in the orbiter FFT. Don't forget to pull the green apple when bailing out of a space shuttle.
Looking up at the Shuttle flight deck. That's Jerry Goodman, who Nicole and I met at the Splashdown celebration and invited me on a tour of the full fuselage trainer.
Mario Runco, three-time mission specialist, points out some features of the flight deck
Control panel for STS engines and thrusters.
View of the orbiter cargo bay from the rear flight deck window, where the Canadarm operator would be
Space vehicle mockup facility out the orbiter mockup pilot's window
There are a few things that make this picture AWESOME: (1) I'm on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle full-fuselage trainer, (2) I'm in the commander's seat, (3) a veteran astronaut took this photo for me, and (4) I saw that astronaut launch!
The crew of STS-127, one day after returning from orbit. L to R: JSC center director Michael Coats, Cdr Mark Polanski, Pilot Doug Hurley, MS Chris Cassidy, MS Julie Payette, MS Tom Marshburn, MS Dave Wolf, and JAXA ISS astronaut Koichi Wakata.
Wakata-san accepts various awards from JAXA.
Mural in the NBL
Crunch time on NASA documents....
Not just any Danger Plane...but the Danger Plane of Rotation!
The 727, ready for loading
Bootie shot while loading the plane.
On the aircraft while loading the experiment.
Max on preflight LN2 duty.
Leaving the floor!
That's a Lt Col Frank Pocher Minute Man Squadron patch (MAWG CAP)
Flight Day 1 postflight team photo
Filling the dewar...
