Zena Cardman
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👩🚀 @NASA Astronaut, Group XXII 🛰️ Back on Earth after @Space_Station Expeditions 73-74
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I don’t know where to begin, so I’ll start here: my view from one Dragon to another. I don’t have words yet for the whole experience, so a picture will have to do. This was my first attempt at a time-lapse (thank you, Nichole “Vapor” Ayers, for many great tips). Aurora over the South Pacific, Orion rising, satellites in the distance, and my favorite planet, all from a wild new perspective. That Dragon undocked and returned to Earth a few days ago with Crew-10. It was a bittersweet farewell but marked the start of a new chapter in what feels already like a great story.
Zena Cardman1,294,321 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
The International Space Station rarely makes big changes to its orientation, but we were lucky to experience such maneuvers (flipping around to fly butt-first, then flipping back again) before and after each SpaceX CRS-33 reboost. This 60x speed timelapse was one of my favorites since it captures a little of everything - sunset, lightning storms, air glow, moon glint, stars, and sunrise - as we did one (actually very slow) orbital cartwheel from Atlantic to Pacific.
Zena Cardman432,121 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
Boop! We have a new Dragon at the bow of our International Space Station. This one is full of cargo instead of friends, but the whole crew is excited for research experiments (and food) on board. Col. Mike Fincke and Jonny Kim did a great job monitoring the approach from 1km out all the way through docking, and we’ve been hard at work unpacking ever since. Welcome, SpaceX CRS-33!
Zena Cardman544,164 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
Wild mirage of moonset as viewed from the International International Space Station. The distortion and colors are caused by atmospheric refraction and Rayleigh scattering (and I think the ripples are likely from some temperature inversions? I’ll let the internet correct me…). Getting this shot as I envisioned became my white whale for more than a week. The challenge was mostly timing – finding, focusing, and tracking with a long, handheld lens during the brief few minutes we can see the moon each orbit, then leading and stabilizing the framing on a soft horizon too dark to see. We get sixteen moonsets every day, so I spent a lot of time with this obsession. What a relief to finally catch it. 400mm plus 1.4x and 2x converter, 1/50s, f/22, ISO 2000, luck, and stubbornness.
Zena Cardman114,714 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
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