In this March 7, 2022, image, astronaut Frank Rubio gets help putting on a spacesuit at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to train for spacewalks. Rubio is the first astronaut of Salvadoran origin to go to space. He launched to the International Space St […]
Astronaut Michael E. López-Alegría, mission specialist, is photographed in this close-up view during one of the STS-92 spacewalks on Oct. 18, 2000. During his NASA career, López-Alegría logged more than 257 days in space and performed 10 spacewalks totaling 67 hours and 40 minutes. He flew on the ST
European Space Agency astronaut Samatha Cristoforetti captured a photo of a portion of China’s Tanggula Mountains near Hala Lake as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above the Earth on Sept. 5, 2022. Since the station began hosting human astronauts in November 2000, crew member
This nighttime photograph from the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited 261 miles above Earth looks across the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa to southern Europe. The city lights of Algiers, Algeria to Tunis, Tunisia highlight Africa’s northern coast from the bottom center towar
2022年9月3日 Sun and Moon and ISS Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night), Jin Ma (Beijing Planetarium) Explanation: On August 25 Sun and Moon could both be seen in planet Earth’s daytime skies. And so could the International Space Station. The ISS crossed the disk of the wanin
This time lapse of the Milky Way Galaxy taken from the International Space Station (ISS) also captured a lightning strike on Earth so bright that it lit up the space station’s solar panels. Astronaut Kjell Lindgren posted this on Twitter and Instagram on Sept. 2, 2015, saying, “Large lightning
2022年7月9日 Saturn and the ISS Image Credit & Copyright: Tom Glenn Explanation: Soaring high in skies around planet Earth, bright planet Saturn was a star of June’s morning planet parade. But very briefly on June 24 it posed with a bright object in low Earth orbit, the International Space S
2022年4月27日，周三，佛罗里达州的NASA肯尼迪航天中心，NASA Crew-4任务宇航员凯尔·林德格伦、鲍勃·海恩斯、杰西卡·沃特金斯和欧洲航天局宇航员萨曼莎·克里斯托弗雷蒂搭乘SpaceX猎鹰9号火箭前往国际空间站。 影像来源：NASA/Aubrey Gemignani 美国东部时间4月27日星期三凌晨3点52分，NASA的SpaceX Crew-4任务宇航员从佛罗里达州NASA肯尼迪航天中心的39A发射场发射至国际空间站，目前已进入轨道。这些国际宇航员将是国际空间站上的第四次商业宇航员轮换任务。 一枚SpaceX猎鹰9号火箭将载人龙飞船送入轨道，搭载了任务指挥官凯尔·林德格伦、飞行
2022年4月11日 A Space Station Crosses a Busy Sun Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night) Explanation: Typically, the International Space Station is visible only at night. Slowly drifting across the night sky as it orbits the Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) can be seen as
2021年12月06日 Space Station Silhouette on the Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Andrew McCarthy Explanation: What’s that unusual spot on the Moon? It’s the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit gi
