New Zealand's Snow-capped Southern Alps | International Space Station

New Zealand's Snow-capped Southern Alps | International Space Station

New Zealand, with its snow-capped Southern Alps mountain range, is pictured between two partly cloudy bodies of water, the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean, as the International Space Station orbited 271 miles above.

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Expedition 69 Crew (September 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin, Konstantin Borisov

European Space Agency: Flight Engineer Andreas Mogensen (Denmark)

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara (USA)

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. 12, 2023

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