
Engineers monitor a propulsion test.

A vacuum test stand with a rare snow fall blanketing the foothills behind the Propulsion Test Area.

Our Propulsion Test Area houses numerous vacuum and ambient test stands.

The Propulsion Test Team sets up a propulsion test.

Test firing of a propulsion engine.

A propulsion system is carefully being lowerd into one of our vacuum test stands.

Our workforce carefully installs a test system into one of our propulsion test stands.

Expedition 48-49 crew members are pictured aboard their aircraft en route to their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

Expedition 48-49 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin.

Expedition 48-49 prime crew members Takuya Onishi, Kate Rubins and Anatoly Ivanishin