Roland Miller, a Chicago native, studied photography at Utah State University earning his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees. For 14 years, he taught photography at Brevard Community College (now Eastern Florida State College) in Cocoa, Florida, where he was first exposed to many nearby NASA launch sites. He then taught at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois for six years before becoming dean of its Communication Arts, Humanities and Fine Arts division in 2008. Miller retired from higher education in 2018 to work full-time on his aerospace photography.

Roland and Italian astronaut, Paolo Nespoli, recently completed a project collaboratively photographing the interior of the International Space Station in a book, Interior Space: A Visual Exploration of the International Space Station.

In 2016, Miller’s project, Abandoned in Place: Preserving America’s Space History, documenting the deactivated and repurposed space launch and test facilities around the United Stated was published by the University of New Mexico Press.

Images from Miller’s Space Shuttle documentary project, Orbital Planes, have been exhibited at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida and at The National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida.

Miller’s space-related photography has also been exhibited at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Florida; The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama; The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and numerous other art and science museums. Images from Miller’s space-related projects are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois; the NASA Art Collection, Washington, DC; the American Cultural Center, Xi’an International University, Xi’an, China; and numerous public and private collections.

Miller’s work has been featured in Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, International Business Times, The Daily Mail, Wired.com, and numerous other national and international publications.

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
View through AFT Hatch into the Pressurized Mating Adapter and Russian Zarya Module
Node 1 – Unity International Space Station – ISSLow Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
View of Port Hatch into Node 3
Node 1 – Unity International Space Station – ISSLow Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
View of Port Endcone with Stowage
Node 3 – Tranquility
International Space Station – ISS
Low Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
View of Earth through Window 6 with Space Station Robotics Manipulation System
Cupola
International Space Station – ISS
Low Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
View of Advanced Resistive Exercise Device in Node 3 through Forward Hatch
Permanent Multipurpose Module – PMM Leonardo
International Space Station – ISS
Low Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
View from Starboard into Node 2 and Japanese Experiment Module
European Laboratory – Columbus
International Space Station – ISS
Low Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
Starboard Work Bench with Tools
Node 2 – Harmony
International Space Station – ISS
Low Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
Starboard View through Port Hatch of Equipment Lock and Crew Lock with Extravehicular Activity Hardware
Quest Joint Airlock International Space Station – ISS
Low Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
Port View with Airlock
Japanese Experiment Module – Kibo
International Space Station – ISS
Low Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
Longitudinal View, from ISS Forward to ISS Aft
US Laboratory – Destiny International Space Station – ISS
Low Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
Extravehicular Mobility Unit – EMU
Equipment Lock, Aft Wall
International Space Station – ISS
Low Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
Entrance to the Cupola
Node 3 – Tranquility
International Space Station – ISS
Low Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
Cupola with Clouds and Ocean
International Space Station – ISS
Low Earth Orbit, Space (Courtesy NASA and ASI)

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Roland Miller
Z1 Truss
Space Station Processing Facility
NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida
1998

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Roland Miller
Node 1 Equipped with Mating Systems (left)
and Pressurized Mating Adapter (right)
Ground Fit-Check Test
High Bay
Space Station Processing Facility – SSPF
NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida

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Roland Miller
Scaffolding and Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 – PMA 3
High Bay
Space Station Processing Facility – SSPF
NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida

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Roland Miller
Longitudinal View
US Laboratory – Destiny Internal Active Thermal Control Simulator – IATCS Test Module
Environmental Control and Life Support Systems – ECLSS Test Facility
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama

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