The Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate leads NASA’s human spaceflight and space-enabling activities across low Earth orbit, the Moon, and beyond.
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ALT NASA astronaut Anil Menon conducts a spacewalk on Aug. 6, 2026, to prepare the International Space Station for future upgrades to its power system.
ALT NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon smiles for a portrait while conducting spacesuit maintenance inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock.
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ALT The NASA "meatball" logo over an image of Earth's "edge" or limb.
ALT The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles on Oct. 8, 2026. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber
ALT A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft departs from the International Space Station on June 16 after undocking from the Harmony module’s forward port. Dragon, packed with completed science experiments and cargo for retrieval and analysis on Earth, parachuted to a splashdown off the coast of southern California the following day. Credit: NASA
ALT Oct. 7, 2026: International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are attached to the space station including the SpaceX Crew-13 Dragon, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL, the Soyuz MS-29 crew spacecraft, and the Progress 95 and 96 resupply ships.
ALT Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft rests at its capture point on April 13, 2026, 12 meters from the International Space Station, as the Canadarm2 robotic arm prepares to grapple the resupply ship. Credit: NASA/Jessica Meir
ALT The four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station pose together for a crew portrait inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, Pilot and Commander respectively, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Mission Specialist Sophie Adenot.
ALT NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 members gather for a portrait in the pressure suits they will wear when they depart the International Space Station inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, Crew-12 pilot and commander respectively, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and mission specialist Sophie Adenot. Credit: NASA/Anil Menon
ALT NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew members wave to family and friends as they depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for nearby Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of launch on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot are scheduled to lift off aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station at 5:15 a.m. EST. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
ALT From left to right, NASA astronauts Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk (back), wave to family and friends as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for nearby Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for launch of Crew-13 on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. Crew-13 is scheduled to lift off aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 11:10 a.m. EDT, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett