Faces of NASAThe Faces of NASA series combines stunning portraiture with interviews of NASA's workforce.Discovery spacewalker Danny Olivas at work during the STS-128 mission's first spacewalk. During the six-hour, 35-minute spacewalk, Olivas and astronaut...Astronaut Carlos I. Noriega, mission specialist, waves toward his space walk partner, astronaut Joseph R. Tanner, as Tanner snaps a..."It was just this Frankenstein monstrosity of PVC pipes and messy high schooler soldering and wiring. But no matter how...Hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963, Josephine Jue was a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who...Phuong Marangoni is the deputy project planning and control lead for NASA’s Power and Propulsion Element project supporting Gateway, a...Dr. Kartik Sheth's career spans academia, non-profits, and government.Nina Wang has more than a decae of experience in financial reporting and analysis, financial statement audits, and internal controls.Misty Snopkowski is NASA’s program executive for the Commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Development program.As an atmospheric scientist, Jie Gong explores ice clouds and other frozen precipitation like snow.Perseverance entry, descent, and landing lead Allen Chen, gives remarks during a NASA Perseverance rover mission landing update.Electrical Test Operations Engineer David CarverSwati Mohan is currently the Mars 2020 Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Operations Lead, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Helen HwangIn this iconic image, Staion Commander Leroy Chiao of NASA watches a water bubble float between him and the camera.Chemist Audrey Miyamoto preparing an Apollo lunar sample to analyze for amino acids at NASA’s Ames Research Center.Iowa native astronaut Raja Chari was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class.Katherine Park is a designer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.Brian Lim is among the many who worked on NASA’s VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally), a ventilator designed, built...Life Detection Systems branch chief Vance Oyama operates a specially designed soil distribution system, used for dispersing the lunar soil...Sang Choi has worked for NASA for nearly 40 years. Since beginning work at the Langley Research Center in October...NASA astronaut candidate Raja Chari poses for a portrait, Friday, July 12, 2019 at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas. (Photo...Standing among dead black spruce trees in a burned area near Delta Junction, Richard Chen dug soil sampling pits throughout...Chemist Audrey Miyamoto preparing an Apollo lunar sample to analyze for amino acids at NASA’s Ames Research Center.Life Detection Systems Branch Chief Vance Oyama operates a specially designed soil distribution system, used for dispersing the lunar soil...Katherine Brown is a woman of many cultures, many career paths and many stories. But as the Public Affairs Officer...Jonny Kim was selected as a member of NASA's 2017 astronaut class, nicknamed "the Turtles."Ellison Onizuka was the first Asian American to fly in space.Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria and spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari view a mockup of a Soyuz spacecraft at a local Baikonur,...Cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov and and spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari are greeted by Russian officials and media upon their return...NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide participate in a food tasting session in...The Expedition 14 crew enjoys a traditional Kazakh meal at a Baikonur, Kazakhstan restaurant as they prepare for their launch...NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, right, poses for a photo with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) President, Hiroshi Yamakawa, just before...NASA is evaluating habitat ground prototypes developed by six companies through the NextSTEP initiative to help engineers refine requirements for...NASA Public Affairs Officer Felicia Chou moderates a media briefing where astrophysics experts discuss the upcoming launch of NASA’s next...Goddard technologist Nithin Abraham, a member of the team that has developed a low-cost, low-mass technique for protecting sensitive spacecraft...NASA astronaut Suni Williams speaks with Vice President Mike Pence and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is seen during a tour...NASA Astronaut Suni Williams has been assigned to the second flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner.NASA astronaut Suni Williams is seen during a NASA event where it was announced that she, and NASA astronaut Josh...On July 26, 2018, Hsiao Smith (left) of NASA Goddard’s Satellite Servicing Projects Division briefs NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine about...NASA has selected six women and men to join the elite corps of flight directors who will lead mission control...
