Amazed astronaut in SpaceX capsule shoots video of our planet.

 

Amazed astronaut in SpaceX capsule shoots video of our planet

Look at that.

NASA astronaut Victor Glover blasted into Earth's orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft last week. Soon after, Glover and three other astronauts safely docked to the International Space Station.

Glover, the first Black astronaut expected to have an extended, six-month stay on the space station, recently tweeted his inaugural video from the craft that ferried him into orbit, some 250 miles above Earth. 

The shot shows a vantage point of Earth in the black void of space. We can spy the blue trace of the planet's thin atmosphere and a swirling weather system curling over the ocean. The drone of the space station whirls in the background. Obviously, the scene is even more poignant in person.

"Looking at the Earth through the window of Dragon Resilience," wrote Glover. "The scale of detail and sensory inputs made this a breathtaking perspective!" 


Glover's mission, called SpaceX Crew-1, is the first "operational" flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, meaning the first time the SpaceX capsule is being used on an active mission, as opposed to a test. Previously, SpaceX made history in May when the space exploration company became the first commercial business to send astronauts to Earth's orbit.

Now in space, Glover can regularly peer onto our humble blue planet, a perspective that often changes how astronauts view the world, and the delicate life therein. It's called "the overview effect."

Said Edgar Mitchell, a NASA astronaut who walked on the moon: "You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"

Comments

  1. Amazing... we all live on this beautiful fragile Blue sphere hurtling through the universe, hopefully one day our divisions will diminish knowing we are all one Planet 🤞.

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    1. Fake just like the moon landings, Jo Biden's election victory and COVID19. The Earth is flat and here is a GIF to prove it!

      http://gph.is/1SYmLln

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    2. @Michael - spiraling while being dragged around

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    3. ok I get it buddy, nice troll attempt 👍

      https://media1.tenor.co/images/de25826f0614dd1138b370d9628649dd/tenor.gif?itemid=4486363

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    4. it's called humour not trolling. There is a difference unless of course you're flat Earth follower & Trumpist cult follower! ;D

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    5. 😂 fair call 👍 hard to distinguish sometimes with the amount of flatearthers out there 🤦🏻‍♂️

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    6. Especially in a country that thinks it's a free first world country like the US that was on the brink of dictatorship. Been a crazy year eh?

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    7. Yeah a year nobody is going to not be happy to see the back of! 🤦🏻‍♂️

      Trust the Irish to keep things funny though!! ☘️😂

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    8. We try lol. Have to humour amongst all the madness & stupidity! Too many armchair experts around. ;D

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    9. there’s no borders from space.

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  2. Amazing that we can finally see the edge of the flat disc we call Earth ;)

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    1. if you can see it then you should be able to travel there right?

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  3. Yep, the earth is definitely flat! ;D

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    1. makes you wonder if the flat earth people are the same people coming up with all the Covid hoax/fake virus theories.

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    2. from certain point of view

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    3. Covid is definitely a hoax. Off course 150-200 countries (who can rarely agree on anything) all got together in one big conspiracy - makes total sense right? ;D ;D ;D

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    4. it's not a matter of point of view, it's a matter of facts. Just because you can't always see the curvature of the horizon, doesn't mean it isn't there.

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    5. ...it’s almost like world peace except with a lot of suffering.

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    6. flat earth believers will say that's been photo shop.

      https://media1.tenor.co/images/43ab85f6d511f490f652ddcf350da503/tenor.gif?itemid=5167922

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    7. have you heard that one too it's on O.D.D news saying a lot of crap like that earth is a flat disk we are lied to about space etc.... trying to spread fear with their ignorant

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  4. Seeing the edge of the flat earth for the first time ;D

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    1. if you can see it then you can travel there right?

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  5. No space debris and the earth is flat. I call bs!

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  6. go pro fish eye eye eye!!!!!!!! ;D

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  7. Flat like a pancake! PROOF!

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  8. Geeez!!! Flat as a table. Just what I thought.

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  9. Nice but there's nothing out there.

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  10. Show that to the Flat Earth Society..

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  11. Pay attention to what. CGI

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  12. I wanna goooooo. Sign me up for space tourism when it becomes affordable ;D

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  13. What? The earth is round? No way....

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  14. Joshua Cooper space is fake !!!

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  15. Finally a real video

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  16. fake, we all know the world is flat.

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  17. I wanna see footage of the entire earth. They need to send a camera to the moon and record earth.

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    1. been there, done that. Look up the Blue Marble photo.

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    2. ya i seen it. But it sucks. I wanna see video

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  18. The earth is round..........wow

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  19. Is that the best picture they can take with a $40 Billion dollar a year budget? NASA dares not show an ACTUAL PHOTO. lol

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