“I didn’t think the views could improve.” The astronaut shares a fascinating timelapse video of the Milky Way from the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft
- Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi captured the timelapse video from space
- It was in the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience capsule when he took the video
- The video was shared by NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, who was with Noguchi
A fascinating timelapse video taken from the window of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft left NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins “impressed” by its beauty.
The clip shows a field of black and blue stars moving through the frame and was captured by astronaut Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
“I didn’t think opinions could improve, so my crewmate [Soichi Noguchi] I took Resilience’s timelapse tonight and was impressed, ”Hopkins said.
Noguchi and Hopkins are among the ten astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 250 miles above Earth.
The pair shared a trip to the orbiting lab with two other NASA astronauts as part of the SpaceX-operated Crew-1 mission in November 2020.
The clip shows a field of black and blue stars moving across the frame and was taken by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi
The four astronauts, including Noguchi and Hopkins, had to move their SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience capsule to make way for the incoming SpaceX missions.
Crew-1 astronauts were the first to be transported to the ISS by a commercial operator and the first from US ground since the last space shuttle flight in 2011.
Noguchi, who made the sensational video of the stars moving out of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, has traveled to the ISS three times.
His first was on the space shuttle, which he retired in 2011, then flew to the station with a Soyuz spacecraft operated by Roscosmos, and finally on his last voyage he became the first Japanese astronaut to go. fly in a commercial ship.
With another crew of the SpaceX Dragon arriving at the ISS on April 22 and cargo flights over the next few weeks, the team had to release a docking port.
The resistor was coupled with the Harmony module, but needed to be repaired on April 5, the first time for a commercial spacecraft docked with the ISS.
Hopkins, Victor Glover and NASA’s Shannon Walker, along with Noguchi wore their flight suits to move the capsule in a process that took about 45 minutes.
The reason they had to be in the Crew Dragon vehicle was to make sure that if he couldn’t dock again, there would be no more people on the ISS than seats on the ships to escape if there was a problem in the orbital lab.
Noguchi and Hopkins are among the ten astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 250 miles above Earth.
The second SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will take on NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough as commander of the spacecraft, and Megan McArthur as pilot.
On April 22, they will be accompanied by European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Akihiko Hoshide of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
One week later, on April 28, the Crew-1 mission will end when Hopkins, Walker, Victor Glover and Soichi Noguchi sink near Florida.
The pair shared a trip to the orbiting lab with two other NASA astronauts as part of the SpaceX-operated Crew-1 mission in November 2020.
The recovery of the crew’s dragon crew will be renewed for the “Inspiration4 mission” which will bring four private citizens to the ISS before mid-September.
The most recent launch of the ISS saw a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts explode against a Soyuz rocket and dock with the station.
NASA’s Mark Vande Hei, Soyuz commander Oleg Novitskly and Roscosmos flight engineer Pyotr Dubrov made the trip on Monday.