Science and Exploration

An Orbital Sunrise Above The South Pacific

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
April 8, 2021
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An Orbital Sunrise Above The South Pacific
Orbital Sunrise
NASA

Two Russian spaceships (from left), the Soyuz MS-17 crew ship and the ISS Progress 77 cargo craft, are pictured docked to the International Space Station as it orbited into a sunrise 264 miles above the South Pacific.

iss064e044526 (March 19, 2021) – larger image

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