Black History MonthPresent and former NASA astronauts Danny Olivas, Garrett Reisman, Barbara Morgan, and NASA Associate Administrator for Education (and astronaut) Leland...NASA Dryden public affairs specialist Leslie Williams was honored with an Astronauts Personal Achievement Award – commonly known as the...In this image from December 2008, the STS-122 mission crew members stride out of the Operations and Checkout Building, eager...On the first-ever spacewalk from space shuttle Columbia, during the STS-87 mission, astronaut Winston E. Scott works with a simulated...The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission will study chemistry of rocks, soil and...This international crew that flew aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger represented the largest number (eight) of persons to occupy an...Astronaut Guion S. Bluford Jr.Astronaut Guion S. Bluford, STS-8 mission specialist, assists Dr. William E. Thornton (out of frame) with a medical test that...The STS-8 crew members pause for a crew photo at Pad 39A. They were about to participate in the STS-8...S133-E-007200 (28 Feb. 2011) -- Partially inside, partially outside the Quest airlock on the International Space Station, astronaut Alvin Drew...Students from Ferebee-Hope Elementary School in Washington, D.C., take turns trying on a glove from a space suit on Tuesday,...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, third from left, introduces Edward Moore Kennedy III, fourth from left, to NASA Astronaut Leland Melvin,...Astronaut Leland Melvin waved to the crowds from the NASA Glenn Research Center float during the 2010 Pro Football Hall...Alvin Drew dons a training version of his shuttle launch and entry suit in preparation for a training session in...In the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the astronauts of space shuttle Discovery's STS-131...Astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, STS-116 mission specialist, attired in a training version of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuit, awaits a...