Science and Exploration

Space Station Lunar Transit

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
August 2, 2015
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Space Station Lunar Transit
ISS Transits The Moon
NASA/Bill Ingalls

The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the moon at roughly five miles per second, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015, Woodford, VA.
Onboard are; NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren: Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kononenko, and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui.

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