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The International Space Station was photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after disembarking on October 4, 2018. NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel and Ricky Arnold and cosmonaut Roscosmos Oleg Artemyev performed a tour of the orbiting laboratory to taking photos of the station space before returning home after spending 197 days in space. Photo courtesy of NASA / Roscosmos
Guinness World Records announced on October 19, 2020 that NASA astronauts Christina Koch (R) and Jessica Meir, who made history with the first all-female spacewalk on October 18, 2019, will be honored for this achievement with a feature in the Guinness World Records 2021 Edition. The historic spacewalk took place at the ISS, where they worked on maintenance and upgrades. While this was Koch’s fourth spacewalk, it was Meir’s first. Photo by NASA / UPI | License photo
Expedition 64 NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen checking the pressure of her Russian Sokol suit as she and fellow crewmates Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos prepare for their Soyuz launch to the ISS on October 14, 2020, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio was launched at 1:45 am EDT to begin a six-month mission aboard the ISS. Photo by Andrey Shelepin / GCTC / NASA | License photo
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is delighted to be aboard the ISS after the hatch of the Soyuz spacecraft opened on March 28, 2015. Kelly traveled with Russian Expedition 43 cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka on the Soyuz TMA-16M which was launched the day before from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kelly and Kornienko spent a year in space and returned to Earth with the Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Photo courtesy of NASA
Astronaut William Shepherd (C), the commander of the Expedition 1 mission, watches as Soyuz commander cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko (L) and flight engineer, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, apply the finishing touches to his entry suit at full pressure as he lies on a Johnson Space Center Trainer’s couch on May 12, 2000. Scheduled to return from his space station aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, the three were participating in a rehearsal of their duties during the shuttle’s descent. Photo courtesy of NASA
During her year in space, Kelly took care of two crops at the Veggie Plant Growth Facility. Understanding the most effective ways to grow plants in microgravity conditions is a key piece of the future journey to Mars. Growing plants in space provides crew members with fresh foods to supplement their diet, as well as a positive effect on morale and well-being. Photo courtesy of NASA
Tim Kopra photographed his floating breakfast inside the Unity module aboard the ISS on April 16, 2016. In a tweet, he commented on “#Breakfast taco on #ISS: refried beans, grated pork, pepper jack cheese, eggs and salsa. on a tortilla. Outstanding. ” Photo courtesy of NASA
ISS Mission Control flight controllers at Johnson Space Center monitor systems aboard the orbiting laboratory during a series of dynamic events for Expedition 44 on August 10, 2015. Screens in the front of the room show camera views of two Russian cosmonauts walking in space, while NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren was seen picking lettuce from the vegetarian experiment that would become the first food grown in space to be eaten. Photo by Bill Stafford / NASA
Expedition 61 crew members, left to right, NASA flight engineers Meir, Andrew Morgan and Koch with ESA Commander Luca Parmitano unpack fresh fruit and other delicacies from a stowage bag delivered aboard the freighter Japanese HTV-8 on the ISS on October 7, 2019. Photo courtesy of NASA
Kelly locks up the supply of fresh fruit that arrived on the Kounotori 5 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-5) on August 25, 2015. Visiting cargo ships often carry a small supply of fresh food for crew members on board of the ISS. Photo courtesy of NASA
NASA astronauts Jeff Williams (shown here) and Rubins successfully installed a new international docking adapter on August 19, 2016, during a 5-hour, 58-minute spacewalk. Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi assisted the two from inside the space station, while all three then cleaned out the Quest airlock, where they stowed their spacesuits and tools. Photo courtesy of NASA
Koch worked in the vacuum of space 265 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa aboard the ISS on January 15, 2020. She and Meir conducted a spacewalk to install new lithium-ion batteries that store and distribute l energy collected by solar panels on the station’s Port-6 lattice structure. Photo courtesy of NASA
Astronauts aboard the ISS captured these images of the star trails as they orbited the Earth at 17,500 mph on October 3, 2016. Photo courtesy of NASA
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy embarks on a spacewalk outside the ISS on June 16, 2020. Photo courtesy of NASA
Behnken and Cassidy completed the first of two scheduled spacewalks on June 16, 2020, to replace the batteries on one of the two power channels on the ISS starboard truss (S6 Truss). Of this image posted by Behnken on Twitter, he said: “Yesterday, @Astro_SEAL took this photo from our job site at @Space_Station – @ SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and @ JAXA_en’s HTV in clear view. Not bad for a view while working . … “Photo courtesy of NASA / Twitter | License photo
Koch (L) and Meir work on their US space suits ahead of a spacewalk they conducted to install new lithium-ion batteries that store and distribute the energy collected by solar panels on the station’s Port-6 truss structure on the ISS on January 15, 2020. Photo courtesy of NASA
On May 3, 2017 Commander Peggy Whitson works to change the media in a BioCell for the OsteoOmics experiment inside the Microgravity Sciences Glovebox in the US Destiny laboratory on the ISS. Photo courtesy of NASA
Rubins checks a sample for air bubbles before loading it into the biomolecule sequencer in September 2016. Photo courtesy of NASA
On 7 October 2020, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 63 flight engineer Ivan Vagner transfer biological samples to a scientific freezer for stowage and subsequent analysis aboard the ISS. Photo courtesy of NASA
Cassidy (L) and Behnken work on US space suits inside the ISS Quest airlock. The two conduct spacewalks on June 26 and July 1, 2020, to begin replacing the batteries for one of the power channels on the orbiting laboratory. They replaced the old nickel-hydrogen batteries for one of the two power channels on the station’s furthest starboard truss (S6 Truss) with new lithium-ion batteries that arrived at the station on a Japanese cargo ship. This was the culmination of the power upgrade spacewalks that began in January 2017. Photo courtesy of NASA | License photo
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