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Don Pettit

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My EMU space suit during Expedition 6 to @Space_Station in 2003. It is seen in storage between my first and second spacewalk. Some changes between then and now: notice the printed paper procedures and Q-cards tacked on the walls. Now nearly all our documentation is electronic.…

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Boeing Space

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Our team and @ulalaunch teammates have started rolling #Starliner out of the Vertical Integration Facility and across Space Launch Complex-41 to the launch pad.

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Nighttime photo of Iberia from @Space_Station , including all of Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, North Africa, and some of France, showing a rich history of human development. At night it becomes obvious where civilization is by the way we sprinkle our light bulbs across Earth, and…

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Playing ZZ Top through my water sphere aboard the @Space_Station ! Cool! We can see standing nodes and anti-nodes in weightlessness that responded to the frequency and amplitude of the music. What other sounds should the water sphere dance to?

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This is how I make my star trails. Sequences of still images assembled until the beauty of Earth from @Space_Station reshapes into a new form by the forces of time, nature, and physics. Thanks to Christopher Malin for making this video clip from my Expedition 30 photographs.

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Don Pettit

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In the weightlessness on @Space_Station I placed a sphere of water with an air bubble on a speaker cone, then drove it with acoustical waves from the speaker. This created a series of standing nodes and anti-nodes that responded to the frequency and amplitude. A zero gravity…

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Annular solar #eclipse from @Space_Station taken on May 20, 2012 when I was East of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. The deep umbra of the Moon's shadow makes a stark contrast to the surrounding white clouds.

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One of my time exposures from @Space_Station , demonstrating how orbital astrophotography reveals phenomena viewed from space as a function of time. Here our Soyuz and Progress cargo vehicle cuts through the exposure, forming star trails as straight lines, city streaks across the…

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NASA's Johnson Space Center

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Don Pettit prepares for this fourth space flight! ✨🚀 During his upcoming mission to the @Space_Station , NASA astronaut Don Pettit will serve as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 71/72 crew for a six month stay in microgravity.

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Star trail time exposure from my third mission to @Space_Station . Solar panels blur into the exposure, creating a ghostly afterimage. City lights streak to the right, and disappear in rural plots to the left, dividing the image into a black and gold mosaic of human presence.…

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NASA

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Astronaut @Astro_Pettit has been assigned to his fourth flight to the @Space_Station , currently set for September 2024: On previous flights, Pettit was celebrated for his space photography and invention of a zero g coffee cup.

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Don Pettit

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Data mining ISS imagery in an unusual way. Nathan Bergey, then a visiting scholar at Portland State University in Oregon, plotted on a blank map of Earth, the location of the Space Station at the moment each of more than 1.1 million astronaut photographs were taken. A new…

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