Spacecraft & Robots at Sunset | International Space Station

Spacecraft & Robots at Sunset | International Space Station

The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate Earth's atmosphere in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above Central America. In the foreground from left are, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus resupply ship, with its prominent cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays, and the Soyuz MS-24 crew spacecraft.

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: 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.

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

Image Date: Feb. 5. 2024

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