Northern England & Scotland | International Space Station

Northern England & Scotland | International Space Station

This week, Queen Elizabeth II, celebrates her Platinum Jubilee to mark 70 years as queen of the United Kingdom and fourteen other Commonwealth realms. In this image, the International Space Station orbits 261 miles above England with Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter pictured in the upper right foreground on April 20, 2022.

Expedition 67 Crew

Commander Oleg Artemyev (Russia)

Roscosmos Flight Engineers: Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov (Russia)

NASA Flight Engineers: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins (USA)

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Centre (JSC)

Image Date: April 20, 2022

Release Date: June 1, 2022

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