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Station Crew Members Close Endurance Hatch – Friday, August 8, 2025

Aboard the International Space Station, Crew-10 which includes NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers as...

U.S. Astronaut, Crewmates Close Spacecraft Hatch Ahead of Return to Earth

NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub closed the hatches of their...

Jett and Reiter close the hatch in the Air Lock during Expedition 13 / STS-115 Joint Operations

S115-E-06100 (15 Sept. 2006)--- Astronauts Brent W. Jett (left), STS-115 commander, and Thomas Reiter representing...

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Soyuz MS-26 Space Station Farewells & Hatch Closing - April 19, 2025

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner closed the hatch of the Soyuz...

Soyuz MS-24 Space Station Farewells and Hatch Closing - Friday, April 5, 2024

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina...

Expedition 67 - Axiom Mission 1 Hatch Closure on International Space Station - April 24, 2022

Axiom Mission 1, the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, undocked from the orbiting...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians close...

Apollo 11 Activities

Apollo 11 Activities including breakfast, C-7 exit, convoy, white room, hatch closing, launch count and launch.

Hatch closing between Mir and Shuttle

S76-E-5215 (28 March 1996) --- Astronaut Kevin P. Chilton, STS-76 mission commander, gets a warm good-bye from...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, shuttle Atlantis’...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, a cameraman films part of Discovery’s payload bay for a special feature on the KSC Web. In the background is the open hatch of the airlock, located inside the middeck of the spacecraft’s pressurized crew cabin. The airlock is sized to accommodate two fully suited flight crew members simultaneously. Support functions include airlock depressurization and repressurization, extravehicular activity equipment recharge, liquid-cooled garment water cooling, EVA equipment checkout, donning and communications. The outer hatch isolates the airlock from the unpressurized payload bay when closed and permits the EVA crew members to exit from the airlock to the payload bay when open.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Standing inside Discovery’s payload bay, Carol Scott (right), lead orbiter engineer, talks about her job as part of a special feature for the KSC Web. With his back to the camera is Bill Kallus, Media manager in the KSC Web Studio. Behind Scott can be seen the open hatch of the airlock, which provides support functions such as airlock depressurization and repressurization, extravehicular activity equipment recharge, liquid-cooled garment water cooling, EVA equipment checkout, donning and communications. The outer hatch isolates the airlock from the unpressurized payload bay when closed and permits the EVA crew members to exit from the airlock to the payload bay when open.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Standing inside Discovery’s payload bay, Carol Scott (right), lead orbiter engineer,...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A worker in the Orbiter Processing Facility checks the open hatch of the airlock in Discovery’s payload bay. The airlock is normally located inside the middeck of the spacecraft’s pressurized crew cabin. The airlock is sized to accommodate two fully suited flight crew members simultaneously. Support functions include airlock depressurization and repressurization, extravehicular activity equipment recharge, liquid-cooled garment water cooling, EVA equipment checkout, donning and communications. The outer hatch isolates the airlock from the unpressurized payload bay when closed and permits the EVA crew members to exit from the airlock to the payload bay when open.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A worker in the Orbiter Processing Facility checks the open hatch of the airlock in...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Closes Hatch to Dragon

NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, as well as JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya...

STATION CREW MEMBERS CLOSE THE DRAGON ENDEAVOUR HATCH

Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos...

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S65-19225 (23 March 1965) --- This view of astronauts John W. Young (left), pilot, and Virgil I. Grissom, command...

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In the White Room at Launch Pad 39B, the closeout crew assists the astronauts as they take their positions inside...

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iss059e088952 (June 3, 2019) --- NASA astronaut Christina Koch closes the hatch in the vestibule between the SpaceX...

Apollo 12 Crew Leaves O&C, Arrives at Pad 39A

Apollo 12 crew are transported from the Operations and Checkout Building to Launch Complex 39A in preparation for...

Paper Cranes in HTV2 following Hatch Closing

ISS027-E-007901 (27 March 2011) --- In honor of those affected by the Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake in Japan, paper cranes...

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iss061e147761 (Jan. 30, 2020) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 61 Flight Engineer Jessica Meir poses in front of...

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The White Room crew carefully strap the astronauts into their seats prior to closing the hatch. Atlantis will fly on...

Yurchikhin in MRM2

ISS036-E-048271 (10 Sept. 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 37 commander, closes the hatch...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, a technician observes as the hatch closes on...