This composite image, made from six frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of five on board, in silhouette as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second, Wednesday, June 24, 2020, from Fredericksburg, Va. On board are Expedition 63 NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner.
See all the transit images on Flickr.
Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Credit: NASA
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looks pretty but …
to launch into space
without a trace
is more than I could face!
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It’s scary isn’t it?
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not in this life …
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Superb picture of something you do not se everyday. Thank you for sharing it.
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That’s cool thank you for coming by 😀
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Wow–what a cool shot!
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5 miles a second! I had no idea. Incredible
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I know it’s amazing…
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Just found this Horizon documentary on ‘Pluto’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000kqm9/horizon-2020-pluto-back-from-the-dead
Very pleased to find this gem.
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I saw the tail end of this I think, it is a gem…
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I sat down last night to watch on my laptop, so enthralled and so relaxed, I fell asleep.!
All the best programmes do that to me. Will try again ….earlier in the day 😄
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It is the best…
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Managed to sit down and watch it all.
There must be at least five hundred years worth of mere preliminary exploration out there in our Solar System alone.
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To start with…
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Exactly. The wonder of this system, and we still don’t know the whole story…will we ever?
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How can we? It’s so vast and yet so small as well.
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We have to start somewhere 😃
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We do!
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Let’s have this stunning quote again shall we:
“But for Man no rest and no ending. He must go on conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet with its winds and waves. And then all laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him. And at last out throughout cosmos beyond the stars And when he has conquered all the depths of space and the mysteries of time he will still only just be beginning.”*
Always gives me goose-bumps.
*Just so long as we wise-up and as a species stop letting Stupidity & Greed have their say.
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Just simply awesome…
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Guaranteed goose-bumps because it would be so. We would have just got the ground work sorted out.
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So impressive whenever people are able to get that shot! I’ve seen the I.S.S. a few times, and it moves so fast across the sky!
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It does move fast, I’ve not managed to see it yet I don’t think
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awesome!!!!!!! My kind of stuff.
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Fantastic!!! I hope you’re well 🙂
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