ISS043E185040 (05/10/2015) --- Earth observation taken by the Expedition 43 crew of the International Space Station. These islands have often been referred to as the "jewel of the Atlantic" and are only 2 two hours by commercial plane from the USA. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted this image on May 10, 2015 with this comment: "Bermuda, your clouds and remoteness have shielded you for a long time, but I finally got my eye on you.#YearInSpace".
jsc2015e046096 (03/27/2015) ---- At the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (left) joined NASA commentator Dan Huot (right) during the live Soyuz launch coverage for the One-Year Mission on NASA TV on Mar. 27, 2015. Wiseman launched to the space station in May 2014 and offered insight into what a crew experiences in the final hours and minutes leading up to launch.
(April 6, 2015) --- City lights during a night pass over northern central Europe taken by Expedition 43 crew member Samantha Cristoforetti.
ISS043E108129 (04/11/2015) --- "Rainbow double Aurora" greet the astronauts and cosmonauts on board the International Space Station on Apr. 11, 2015 as a bonus during their busy workdays of science experiments, maintenance and operational duties.
201503190011hq (03/19/2015) --- Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly smiles during an Soyuz TMA-16M Trajectory and Flight Plan briefing, Thursday, Mar. 19, 2015 at Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kelly, and Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 27. As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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