Color Plates
1. Aleutian volcano diverts Pacific Ocean cloud cover
2. Baluchistan Plateau in Pakistan
3. Glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau near Bobogawu peak
4. Brazilian state of Minas Geiras
6. Arms of Dickson Glacier in Chile
7. Great Barrier Reef, Australia
8. Forest fires in Idaho during 2007 drought
9. Author’s selfie during first spacewalk
10. Libyan desert near border with Chad
11. North and South Platte Rivers merge in Nebraska
12. Populous eastern third of Nebraska
13. The Parana River between Brazil and Paraguay
14. Great Pyramids of Egypt and the Sphinx near Giza
15. Author’s hometown of Ashland, Nebraska, near SAC and I-80
16. Memorial Stadium “Sea of Red,” October 20, 2007
17. Hurricane Dean bears down on the Gulf of Mexico in 2007
18. The Pillar of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar
20. Author on a spacewalk waving to the Discovery crew
21. Patch of the astronaut class of 1998
22. Official NASA patch of STS-117
23. Precursor to patch of ISS Expedition 15
24. Official patch of ISS Expedition 15
25. Official NASA patch of STS-131
Black and White Photographs
1. Taking air samples among the stowage in the Unity module
2. Author long jumping for Hastings College in 1981
4. Author’s “ perfect selfie” taken during first spacewalk in 2007
5. Surface tension on the middeck of Discovery
6. Author performing experiment in the ISS laboratory module
7. STS-131 and the space shuttle Discovery
8. Author exiting the ISS truss structure during the first spacewalk of STS-131
9. Author and Rick Mastracchio prebreathe pure oxygen from the ISS airlock
11. The ISS Expedition 23 crew in the Destiny lab module
12. Group 17 members of the astronaut class of 1998
13. Author testing Sokol suit with Fyodor Yurchikin and Oleg Kotov
14. The only picture in existence of the entire ISS Expedition 15 crew
15. Exhibiting some Husker loyalty in the Destiny lab module
16. Author performing monthly VO2 Max test
17. Author in the Russian service module playing with “malted milk balls”
18. Author and Expedition 15 crew prepare to undock Soyuz capsule
19. Author working out in the ISS “weight room”
20. Window view during the NEEMO 5 mission
21. The NEEMO 5 official crew photo
22. Author swaps “Texas handshake” with President George W. Bush
23. The Andersons pose with the president in front of Air Force One
25. Reflective moment during a suited crew training exercise
26. Shuttle water survival training in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab
27. A sample is inserted into the minus 80 degree freezer
28. NASA “Nerd” engineers pose for group photo at the Johnson Space Center
29. U.S. airlock with two EMUs ready to head into space
30. Author with his mother, Alice
31. Daily training session on the CEVIS stationary bicycle
32. Anderson family photo captured digitally on the shuttle middeck
33. Discovery lifts off on April 5, 2010
34. Crew of STS-120 poses in the newly delivered Harmony module