Orbital Sunrise over Pacific Ocean | International Space Station

Orbital Sunrise over Pacific Ocean | International Space Station

An orbital sunrise begins to illuminate the cloud tops in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above the Pacific Ocean south of the Hawaiian island chain.

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.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Sept. 15, 2022

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