Meet the Crew of the Latest Space Shuttle Mission
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National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
Free
Meet Mike Foreman, Leland Melvin, Randy Bresnik and Barry Wilmore, members of the crew of the latest space shuttle mission, recently back from the International Space Station. The four astronauts will show a movie of their STS-129 mission and answer questions from the audience in the museum’s new Moving Beyond Earth gallery. Find out what spaceflight is really like!
Wearing training versions of their shuttle launch-and-entry suits, these six astronauts take a break from training to pose for the STS-129 crew portrait.
Pictured on the front row are astronauts Charles O. Hobaugh (left), commander; and Barry E. Wilmore, pilot. From the left (back row) are astronauts Leland Melvin, Mike Foreman, Robert L. Satcher Jr. and Randy Bresnik, all mission specialists.
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