National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center
Mission Critical and Operations
Expedition 71 ISS flight controllers on console during Boeing Crew Flight Test launch. Location: Bldg. 30, FCR-1. Date: 6/5/24. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test second launch attempt, second scrub. ISS Expedition 71 flight controllers. Location: Bldg. 30, FCR-1. Date: 6/1/24. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test second launch attempt, second scrub. ISS Expedition 71 flight controllers. Location: Bldg. 30, FCR-1. Date: 6/1/24. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
Expedition 71 ISS flight controllers on console during Boeing Crew Flight Test rendezvous and docking. Location: Bldg. 30, FCR-1. Date: 6/6/24. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
Artemis II Lunar Imaging Orion Crew Configuration (Dark Ops) with Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen, Andre Douglas, and Jenni Gibbons. Location: Bldg. 9 Orion Mockup. Date: 11/5/2025. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
JSC Center Director's Office touring Exploration Park. Location: Exploration Park, Texas A&M Space Institute. Date: 12/10/2025. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
Dedication to Dorothy Vaughan and women of Apollo sign installation. Location: Building 12/Dorothy Vaughan Center. Date: 7/13/24. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
ISS flight control room during Expedition 72 EVA 92 with U.S. astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to retrieve Radio Frequency Group hardware and collect microorganism samples. Location: Bldg. 30 FCR-1. Date: 1/30/2025. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
ISS flight control room during Expedition 72 EVA 92 with U.S. astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to retrieve Radio Frequency Group hardware and collect microorganism samples. Location: Bldg. 30 FCR-1. Date: 1/30/2025. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
Expedition 73 flight control team during U.S. EVA 93 with astronauts Anne McClain & Nichole Ayers. Location: Bldg. 30 MCC FCR-1, MER, EVA back room. Date: 5/1/2025. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
Expedition 73 flight control team during U.S. EVA 93 with astronauts Anne McClain & Nichole Ayers. Location: Bldg. 30 MCC FCR-1. Date: 5/1/2025. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
Expedition 73 flight controllers on console during Axiom-4 rendezvous and docking with Peggy Whitson, Shubhanshu Shukla, Slawosz Uzanski-Wisniewski and Tibor Kapu. Location: Bldg. 30 MCC FCR-1. Date: 6/26/2025. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
JSC Tour by H.E. Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Indian Ambassador to the United States with Jon Finer, Principal Deputy National Security Adviser, Kurt Campbell, Deputy Secretary of State. Location: Bldg. 30 MCC, Apollo MOCR, FCR-1, Bldg. 9N SVMF. Date: 12/17/24. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
Building 7, 20-Foot Chamber - Pressure Chamber Analog Video Project. Location: Bldg. 7, 20-ft chamber and control room. Date: 8/28/2025. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
Nichole Ayers "Vapor" T-38 preflight activities. Location: Ellington Field. Date: 7/16/24. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
The high-altitude WB-57 aircraft departed July 8 from Ellington Field in Houston, Texas, headed to the Texas Hill Country. The aircraft will use the DyNAMITE (Day/Night Airborne Motion Imager for Terrestrial Environments) sensor system to take video mosaics of the area to assist with the emergency response effort. Location: Ellington Field, Hangar 990 Flight Line. Date: 7/8/2025. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
NASA’s fleet of T-38 jets await astronaut and pilot training flights on the morning of Tracy Dyson’s Soyuz 71S crew return to Ellington Field at Johnson Space Center.Photographer: Helen Arase Vargas - NASA Johnson Space Center
