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iss072e098102 (Oct. 23, 2024) -- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit is pictured setting up one of his "Science of Opportunity" experiments aboard the International Space Station. For this specific experiment, Pettit grew thin wafers of water ice using the orbiting lab's freezer, and photographed them in front of a white, blank computer screen and polarizing filter to display the colorful fragments of ice crystals.

2024

Luke Sollitt

July – November 2024

Xinchuan Huang

April – June 2024

Alex Borlaff

January – March 2024

2023

Victoria Hartwick in Nature

Victoria Hartwick

November – December 2023

Chloe Beddingfield

October 2023

Jack holding diploma at Ames

Jack Lissauer

July – September 2023

Alessandra Ricca

Alessandra Ricca

May – June 2023

Alexander Sehlke

Alexander Sehlke

March – April 2023

Portrait of Timothy Lee

Timothy Lee

January – February 2023

2022

Pasquale Temi portrait in a garden

Pasquale Temi

November – December 2022

Fathi Karouria in front of Shuttle at NASA Ames Research Park

Fathi Karouia

October – November 2022

A photo of Christina Hedges

Christina Hedges

July – September 2022

Picture of Thayne & Hubble out on many of their hiking excursions

Thayne Currie

May – June 2022

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Doug Hoffman

April 2022

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Tom Greene

March 2022

Kimberly Ennico-Smith

February 2022

Nathalie Cabrol standing in front of mathematical equations

Nathalie Cabrol

January 2022

2021

Jeff Cuzzi giving a talk on the rings of Saturn. “The best is yet to come!”

Jeff Cuzzi

December 2021

Dr George Cooper analyzes metoritic material by injecting samples into gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer. This instrument separates very complicated molecular mixtures into individual componds that are more easily identified. ARC-2011-ACD11-0142-003

George Cooper

November 2021

Tom Bristow in front of a rock

Tom Bristow

October 2021

Me at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. I was there for a Venera-D Venus Modeling Workshop; October 2017

Amanda Brecht

September 2021

Photo of Partha Bera

Partha Bera

August 2021

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Natasha Batalha

July 2021

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Tanguy Bertrand

June 2021

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Lou Allamandola

May 2021

Milena in Nikko, Japan

Milena Popovic

April 2021

Woman (Naseem) standing next to SOFIA with the words Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy behind her.

Naseem Rangwala

March 2021

me cavern diving in the Yucatan.

Tori Hoehler

February 2021

Ann Marie Cody

Ann Marie Cody

January 2021

2020

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Delia Santiago-Materese

December 2020

My first flight with SOFIA was an incredible, unparalleled experience only matched by my second flight!

Sarah Nickerson

November 2020

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Orkan Umurhan

October 2020

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Lynn Rothschild

September 2020

Carol with Apollo Astronaut Harrison (Jack) Schmidt at the Apollo 50th anniversary celebration. Between them in the pyramid is a

Carol Stoker

August 2020

David Blake

David Blake

July 2020

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Michel Nuevo

June 2020 

Photo: Michal Roche-Ben Ami

Jonathan Trent

May 2020

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Ed Erickson

April 2020

Christiaan Boersma

Christiaan Boersma

March 2020

Dan Sirbu

Dan Sirbu

February 2020

Darlene Lim in Mauna Uma, Hawaii

Darlene Lim

January 2020 

2019

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Fred Van Wert

December 2019

Sanjoy presenting

Sanjoy Som

November 2019

This is a recent picture of me at the NASA Ames fitness center practicing karate. There is a big picture of the space shuttle on

Ella Sciamma

October 2019

Ruslan

Ruslan Belikov

September 2019

Photo of Scott Sanford (left) with the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return

Scott Sandford

July – August 2019

Marybeth collecting samples

Mary Beth Wilhelm

June 2019

Chris McKay

Chris McKay

May 2019

Francesca at the New Horizons encounter with MU66, on January 1st, 2019

 Francesca Scipioni

April 2019

Alfonso Davila

Alfonso Davila

March 2019

A conversation with Rus Belikov, Eduardo Bendek and Matthew Buffington

Eduardo Bendek

February 2019

2018

NIRVSS N-213 Laboratory

Amanda Cook

December 2018

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Andrew Mattioda

November 2018

NASA engineer Jennifer Heldmann speaks at a Space Camp Hall of Fame ceremony in 2017.COURTESY SPACE CAMP

Jennifer Heldmann

October 2018

Courtney Batterson with Alex, and Mabel, their dog at Baker Beach in SF.

Courtney Batterson

September 2018

Photo of Steve Howell

Steve Howell

August 2018