Bill Ingalls has been a professional photographer for over 3 decades and has served as the Senior Contract Photographer for NASA Headquarters since 1989. Bill holds two Bachelor of Art degrees in English and Visual Communications.
Bill's photographs have appeared on television and in hundreds of magazines, newspapers and books throughout the world, including National Geographic, Newsweek, Time, the Washington Post, Fortune, People, Good House Keeping, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Bill is recognized amongst his peers for capturing some of our country’s historic moments including the first launch of a US citizen on a Russian rocket and JFK, Jr’s last visit to the White House.
The Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft lands in a remote area outside Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on November 22, 2011, as Russian support personnel arrive on the scene.
Perched atop a barge, the space shuttle Enterprise passes the Statue of Liberty, on its way to New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, where the shuttle is now permanently displayed.
Dressed as an astronaut, a young spectator watches the space shuttle Endeavour as it passes on its way to its new home at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
In the image, the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft is seen launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin