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Bill Ingalls has been a contract photographer for NASA for 30 years, and in that time, he's been almost everywhere.
"How Ingalls has approached the task of documenting the U.S. space program is reflected in a comment about the end of the space shuttle era...After taking one photo after another of the spacecraft, he realized the real story was the “people on the ground pointing and looking up with their jaws dropped. I was like, ‘There’s the emotion, there’s the tie-in.’ ” Portraying the emotions of the space program...has made Ingalls only the second photographer ever to receive the prestigious National Space Club Press Award."
In 2011, he photographed astronauts returning after 5 months on the ISS in Kazakhstan, apparently getting lucky when another photographer's flash happened to backlight his scene.
