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10 Awesome Images of the Space Station’s Cupola

February 19, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter There’s a panoramic window on the International Space Station named after the observation decks that old-time train cabooses had. The Cupola, as it’s known, includes six side windows and a big one in the center. An astronaut floating nearby can see [...]

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A Sci-Fi View from the ISS

July 9, 2012

What an awesome image of the Cupola on the International Space Station, with a view of Earth whizzing by! But, is the astronaut-photographer on the outside looking in, or on the inside looking out of the Cupola? We know it is taken from the inside, with a view of the Pacific Ocean near Mexico’s Baja [...]

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Amazing Panorama of Western Europe at Night from Space Station

January 31, 2012

An amazing panorama revealing Western Europe’s ‘Cities at Night’ with hardware from the stations robotic ‘hand’ and solar arrays in the foreground was captured by the crew in a beautiful new image showing millions of Earth’s inhabitants from the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS). The sweeping panoramic vista shows several Western European countries starting with [...]

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Countdown to Yuri’s Night and the 50th Anniversary of Human Spaceflight !

April 9, 2011

Mark your calendars. April 12, 2011 marks the 50th Anniversary of Human Spaceflight and Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s astonishing First Orbit of our precious planet Earth on April 12, 1961. Gagarin was the first human to enter outer space and see what no one else had ever witnessed – our commonly shared Earth as a planet [...]

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Stunning Image, Heartfelt Poetry Could Become Icons of Space Age

November 15, 2010

Undoubtedly, this picture has what it takes to become an iconic image of human spaceflight, much like Apollo 8′s Earthrise or Bruce McCandless’ untethered spacewalk. Here, astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson looks down at Earth from the Cupola on the International Space Station, likely reflecting on both her home and her home in space. Everyone I [...]

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