We finished integrated training with the broader NASA team, Crew-13, and our crew. Simulated failures are a good reminder that the real work is communication, trust, and knowing when to lean on each other. Excited for six months on station for Expedition 75.

One of the better moments in training was looking over in the NBL and thinking, “wow, I think that’s my wife.” Getting to work alongside Anna there has been a real highlight, and I’m glad this moment made it onto video.

One of the useful things about training is seeing the same task from more than one angle. This session with two amazing NASA engineers (Jenna and Naomi) used virtual reality to help me understand a future spacewalk, building on the work we had already done in the neutral buoyancy lab. It’s a good reminder that learning often improves when you practice the same problem in different ways, whether that’s spaceflight training or the kind of studying most of us have done on Earth. It’s been a helpful strategy in high-school, college, medical school, and astronaut training

Expedition 75 will bring together three launches and three crews, including Crew-12, Crew-13, and my mission. These patches represent a much broader team effort across NASA and our international partners.

🚨NASA SPACEX CREW 13 ANNOUNCED🚨 NASA has officially announced the four astronauts who will fly on the SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. Meet the crew: 👩‍🚀 Jessica Watkins — Commander 👨‍🚀 Luke Delaney — Pilot 👨‍🚀 Joshua Kutryk — Mission Specialist 👨‍🚀 Sergey Teteryatnikov — Mission Specialist Crew 13 will launch to the ISS NET Mid-September 2026 This marks the 13th crew rotation mission under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. For over 25 years, the ISS has served as humanity’s laboratory in orbit; and this mission continues that legacy. #ISS #SpaceX #NASA #Crew13 #CSA #Roscosmos

I still can’t quite believe I get to work with my wife every day. We started at NASA in 2013, sat about 10 feet apart at SpaceX, and now we’re back at NASA together. This was my 8th NBL run out of 9.

How do we prepare for future Moonwalks through the Artemis program? One way is by practicing underwater! This 2023 training session with NASA astronaut Victor Glover in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory shows how teams practice using tools and navigating in a simulated lunar gravity environment.

NASA has never served as OEM for any operational EVA spacesuit flown by the United States. Every suit used for spacewalking or lunar surface activity has been built by industry partners under government contract. • Mercury (1961–1963): B.F. Goodrich adapted the Navy Mark IV high-altitude pressure suit. • Gemini (1965–1966): David Clark Company delivered the G3C, G4C, and G5C variants. • Apollo (1966–1972): ILC Industries (now ILC Dover) produced the Pressure Garment Assembly while Hamilton Standard (now Collins Aerospace) served as prime contractor for the Portable Life Support System. • Skylab through today’s Shuttle/ISS program: ILC Dover has supplied the Space Suit Assembly, and Collins Aerospace has integrated the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) life-support systems. The only time NASA attempted to lead in-house development of a new EVA-class suit was the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or xEMU. After roughly $420 million and more than a decade of effort, the agency never fielded a flight-ready suit. That experience is precisely why the xEVAS commercial services model now exists. The in-house approach was tried. It did not close. This was never a failure of NASA engineering talent. A pressure garment is fundamentally a manufacturing challenge. It demands skilled engineers, patternmakers, sewing operators trained on specialized materials, and repeatable flex and abrasion testing. NASA does not build its own rocket engines or avionics for the same reason: the agency owns requirements, integration, verification, and mission assurance. Manufacturing has always been, and should remain, the industry’s domain. Some argue that a lunar surface suit has only one customer. The suit may, but its critical components do not. Thermal micrometeoroid garment laminates, restraint layers, gloves, and life-support hardware all serve broader markets in high-altitude aviation, tactical gear, submersibles, and future commercial LEO stations. A capable supplier does not need the Artemis program to sustain a business; it needs a diversified aerospace and defense portfolio in which the lunar suit is simply one high-visibility line item. The real issue is not the procurement model. It is that the United States no longer possesses the textile manufacturing industrial base that delivered Apollo. The men and women who sewed the A7L suits have retired. The factories that trained them are gone. Rebuilding that specialized capacity cannot happen inside a government center. It happens on the factory floor. That is the problem Anatar exists to solve. We are rebuilding American softgoods manufacturing from the ground up, starting with our Atlanta facility, by investing in the workforce, automation, and material science required for flight-ready hardware and softgoods.

You heard her voice during lunar flyby, now meet the scientist responsible for coaching astronauts as they observed the Moon. Kelsey Young is a Goddard scientist, Artemis II lunar science lead, and one of three science officers who sat in Mission Control. go.nasa.gov/3Qggabv

After nearly two decades, NASA's next-generation spacesuits remain incomplete. Today, the Agency continues to face delays and is reliant on Axiom Space to develop both the Artemis lunar suits and updated ISS suits. Read our new report to learn more: go.nasa.gov/4cGjdRT

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

You might have missed it, but Blue Origin just gave us the first glimpse inside the cockpit of the Blue Moon Mk 2 lander for NASA’s Artemis programme!

🚨 Bill Nye and hundreds of Planetary Society members are heading to DC next week to protest the White House's proposal to slash NASA's science budget • 47% cut to NASA science funding — 23% cut to the agency's overall budget • Would be the largest single-year budget cut in NASA's history • These cuts were announced during the Artemis II mission (via @exploreplanets)

Jesse, Steve, Laddy, and Vlad….such an incredible feeling to welcome you aboard Integrity after a nearly 700,000 mile journey. Forever thankful for your service to our crew and the nation.

Thank you for following Artemis II. We’re just getting started. Welcome to the Artemis generation.

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

Thank you, @elonmusk - the four of us glimpsed the red hues of Mars far in the distance as the sun slipped behind the Moon and there was zero doubt in our minds that the creative genius of our greatest minds will have us there very soon. LETS GO

And splashdown! America is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon and bringing them home safely. Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy did an outstanding job. These talented astronauts inspired the world and represented their space agencies and nations as humanity’s ambassadors to the stars. This was a test mission, the first crewed flight of SLS and Orion, pushing farther into the unforgiving environment of space than ever before, and it carried real risk. They accepted that risk for all we stood to learn and for the exciting missions that follow, as we return to the lunar surface, build a Moon base, and prepare for what comes next. And they were not alone. The entire NASA workforce, our commercial and international partners, and the hopes and dreams of people all over the world were with them. The astronauts know it, and you should too. This mission would not have been possible without you. Congratulations. Artemis II, mission accomplished.

This might be the year that we see kids dressing up as astronauts for Halloween again…. Nature is healing

🚨 NOW: As Artemis II reaches its final hours in space, @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman PERSONALLY bought HUNDREDS of pizzas for the Mission Control team Isaacman REFUSES to use tax dollars to support his role as administrator—even declining to use government jets for official travel He pays his own way, and donates his salary to Space Camp for kids. There’s NEVER been an administrator who cares more about the mission than Administrator @rookisaacman. 📸 @spaceguy87