ALT Pam Melroy, seated in the forward station of a T-38 jet trainer in 2000 prior to joining other astronauts to train for a mission to the International Space Station. She is wearing sunglasses and a helmet and is smiling at the camera. Credit: NASA

ALT Tawnya Laughinghouse is standing in a high-tech industrial facility, smiling and crossing her arms. She is wearing a textured black jacket and a gold bracelet. Behind her are large pieces of machinery and industrial equipment, with bright lighting highlighting the space. Credit: NASA/Charles Beason

ALT Sarah smiles while posing for a selfie with a white dog in a pink harness. She is wearing a cream-colored knit beanie and sunglasses. Credit: Sarah Peacock

ALT Linda Spuler, part Ojibwe, smiles at the camera as she receives her 30-year service award from NASA Johnson Director Vanessa Wyche. Johnson Center Operations Director Joel Walker stands to Wyche’s right. A United States flag and a NASA flag are behind the group. The bottom portion of NASA’s meatball insignia can be seen on the wall behind them. Credit: NASA/David DeHoyos

ALT Tami, a woman of Native American heritage from the Delaware Nation, smiles standing on a staircase in a modern, sunlit building, holding a traditional handcrafted cradleboard adorned with intricate beadwork. She is wearing a paisley patterned shirt covered with a black sweater that has the NASA insignia on the right breast. Credit: NASA/Charles Beason

ALT NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, a white woman with blonde hair and gray eyes, poses for an official portrait in front of the United States flag. She wears a blue flight suit that has three patches on it: a NASA meatball, her name, and the American flag. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

ALT iss064e020036 (Jan. 5, 2021) --- NASA astronaut Kate Rubins uses an enclosed glovebox to conduct an experiment. Rubins is wearing a navy shirt and a headset. Her arms are elbow-deep in the glovebox, protected with plastic covering and medical gloves.

ALT A portrait of Abigail Reigner, standing with her arms crossed in front of a 25% scale model of NASA’s SUbsonic Single Aft eNgine (SUSAN) Electrofan aircraft concept used to test and demonstrate hybrid electric propulsion systems for emission reductions and performance boosts in future commercial aircraft. Credit: NASA/Sara Lowthian-Hanna

ALT Miranda Meyer, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians from the Birdtown Community of North Carolina, poses for a portrait amid the trees at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. She has long, dark hair and is wearing a bright blue jacket with the NASA and Goddard logos on it. Credit: NASA/Thalia Patrinos

ALT Noosha Haghani holds a piece of equipment and smiles directly at the camera. Credit: NASA

ALT Two NASA astronauts, Jessica Meir (left) and Christina Koch (right), work outside of the International Space Station during a spacewalk. They are both wearing white spacesuits. Credit: NASA/Drew Morgan

ALT Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, STS-41G mission specialist, gets some help with her extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) prior to participating in an underwater simulation of an extravehicular activity (EVA) scheduled for her flight aboard the Columbia in October 1984. Dr. Sullivan participated in the rehearsal in NASA’s weightless environment training facility (WET-F) at Johnson Space Center.

ALT View of Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan performing an EVA in the payload bay of Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41G mission.

ALT Exp-071 Post-flight News Conference with Tracy Dyson. Photo credit: NASA

ALT The lower half of Europa Clipper’s vault plate, showing the poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (lower right), a drawing representing the Jovian system that will host the names of 2.6 million people flying with mission on a microchip (top right), a tribute to planetary scientist Ron Greeley (bottom left), and the radio emission lines known a the ‘Water Hole’ (center). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech