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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Rocket Launch as Seen from the Space Station
APOD.NASA.gov ^
| 1 Apr, 2021
| Video Credit: ISAA, NASA, Expedition 57 Crew (ISS); Processing: Riccardo Rossi (ISAA, AstronautiCAST
Posted on 04/01/2021 3:17:13 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Have you ever seen a rocket launch -- from space? A close inspection of the featured time-lapse video will reveal a rocket rising to Earth orbit as seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The Russian Soyuz-FG rocket was launched in November 2018 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying a Progress MS-10 (also 71P) module to bring needed supplies to the ISS. Highlights in the 90-second video (condensing about 15-minutes) include city lights and clouds visible on the Earth on the lower left, blue and gold bands of atmospheric airglow running diagonally across the center, and distant stars on the upper right that set behind the Earth. A lower stage can be seen falling back to Earth as the robotic supply ship fires its thrusters and begins to close on the ISS, a space laboratory that celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2018. Astronauts who live aboard the Earth-orbiting ISS conduct, among more practical duties, numerous science experiments that expand human knowledge and enable future commercial industry in low Earth orbit.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
Today's Picture of the Day is a video from the International Space Station at the link above.
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Today's Picture of the Day is a video from the International Space Station at the link above.
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04/01/2021 3:18:26 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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04/01/2021 3:42:56 PM PDT
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Islander7
(?There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agendac)
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Thanks for the post - that was waaay cool!
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posted on
04/01/2021 4:26:33 PM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
To: MtnClimber
Wonderful. Many jobs, well done.
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04/01/2021 4:26:41 PM PDT
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TChad
(The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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posted on
04/01/2021 5:41:45 PM PDT
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tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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posted on
04/01/2021 6:01:58 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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posted on
04/01/2021 6:11:07 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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posted on
04/01/2021 6:42:20 PM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Solzhenitsyn was an optimist...)
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Better than seeing this from space.
To: MtnClimber
Just like Hollywood....................
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04/02/2021 5:16:10 AM PDT
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Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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