Space the beyond

summerwind:

Cupola, our window on the world (by Paolo Nespoli)

Enjoy Space : Image of the day

View from the Cupola

via www.spaceflight.nasa.gov

thefrogman:

Fixed.

The above image is the new viewing portal just installed in the International Space Station. Although cool, I thought it needed a little something extra.

inothernews:

“I JUST INSTALL WINDOWS. I DON’T WASH ‘EM.” American astronaut Nicholas Patrick put some finishing touches on the newly installed Tranquility module’s space windows aboard the International Space Station last week, about 340 kilometers [or 6,781,913 miles] above Earth’s surface.  “Now you can see your house from here!” Patrick jokingly told his fellow astronauts, who then refused to open the pod bay doors.  (Photo via NASA / APOD)

The astronaut Soichi Noguchi taking a photo from the newly installed Cupola.

wrappedcherry:

Typical Japanese Tourist

vivaviv:

Moon rise over Australia. Taken from Cupola side window. By: Astro_Soichi

fuckyeahspace:

JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard the ISS in the newly installed Cupola node.

unknownskywalker:

(19 Feb. 2010) A close-up view of a portion of the International Space Station is featuring the newly-installed Tranquility node and Cupola (visible at top left), photographed from the space shuttle Endeavour after undocking. [NASA]

(via thebob)

unknownskywalker:

The view from Cupola. [NASA]

spaceandstuffidk:

unknownskywalker:

(17 Feb. 2010) NASA astronauts Terry Virts (left), STS-130 pilot; and Stephen Robinson, mission specialist, pose for a photo near the windows in the newly-installed Cupola of the International Space Station while space shuttle Endeavour remains docked with the station. [NASA]

unknownskywalker:

The International Space Station got a bit bigger. The new Tranquility node featured in this picture with the Cupola dome, was installed last night by STS-130 astronauts Robert Behnken and Nick Patrick. The 6-hour and 32-minute spacewalk was completed at 3:49 a.m. EST.

The new room and the lookout with its seven windows (the largest ever sent into space), means the astronauts will have better life-support systems, more exercise facilities and a wider view on space for monitoring, observing and relaxing.

For the details of this first spacewalk, check: NASA ISS, SPACE.com, PhysOrg.

macmankev:

A low angle view shows the interior of the International Space Station’s Cupola in the Alenia Spazio clean room in Turin, Italy. Personnel are preparing the hardware for shipment to NASA’s launch facility at Cape Kennedy, Florida. From inside the Cupola, a dome-shaped module with seven windows, astronauts have a panoramic view for observing operations on the outside of the orbiting complex. The Cupola module provides external observation capabilities during spacewalks, docking operations, hardware surveys and for Earth and celestial studies. It also serves as the primary location for executing robot arm operations of Canadarm2. Until the Cupola is installed, crews have been using a robotic control computer station located in the Destiny Laboratory to operate the arm. The Cupola’s seven windows enhance the robotic arm operator’s situational awareness, supplementing camera and graphic views provided by the computer workstation. (NASA)