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Viewing a Spacecraft Launch from Space

Astronauts observed the exhaust trails of the Cygnus resupply spacecraft and rocket.


Astronaut photograph ISS045-E-168055 was acquired on December 6, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using an 1150 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 45 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by M. Justin Wilkinson, Texas State U., Jacobs Contract at NASA-JSC.

Published April 11, 2016
Data acquired December 6, 2015

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography