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The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth has been collecting and categorizing photos taken by astronauts. They see Earth from an altitude of about 250 miles as the station travels at a speed ...
The flags indicate the astronaut's primary citizenship during his or her time as an astronaut. The symbol identifies female astronauts. The symbol indicates astronauts who have left low Earth orbit. The symbol indicates astronauts who have walked on the Moon. The symbol † indicates astronauts who have died in incidents related to a space program.
He is the first astronaut from Sicily Samantha Cristoforetti, 541st person in space, who has performed the longest single spaceflight by a woman, as of 2015 Andreas Mogensen, joint 544th person and the first Dane in space Aidyn Aimbetov, joint 544th person and the first solely Kazakh cosmonaut Hazza Al Mansouri, joint 564th person and the first ...
Aldrin and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong only spent about two and a half hours clambering around the lunar surface during their historic 1969 moon landing. ... The best space pictures from February.
Recently released photos of two NASA astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have caused health concerns to rise. Although Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore were ...
NASA astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams on Expedition 13, with various floating photography equipment in Zvezda module Image of the clouds and Moon in the distance, by a Kodak DCS760C An example of digital photography by Donald Pettit on Expedition 30. It is a long exposure photo showing star trails. Astronaut Jessica Meir undergoing photography ...
ESA Astronaut. First Italian woman in space and first Italian woman on the ISS, with Expedition 42/43. Eighteenth woman to walk in space, during Expedition 67. Soyuz TMA-15M (Nov. 23, 2014) SpaceX Crew-4 (Apr. 27, 2022) 60 Kathleen Rubins Oct. 14, 1978 United States: Twelfth woman to walk in space (Aug. 19, 2016, Sep. 01, 2016) during ISS ...
Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was an Indian American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. Chawla expressed an interest in aerospace engineering from an early age and took engineering classes at Dayal Singh College and Punjab Engineering College in India.