How was your Christmas Eve? I'm sure it was great. Mine was great. There was family and Scrabble, a jigsaw puzzle, a crackling fireplace. It was perfect.
But it also would have been perfect to be floating outside the International Space Station, with the entirety of our beautiful, fragile planet behind me.
This photo captures astronaut Mike Hopkins during one of two Christmas Eve spacewalks outside the International Space Station. The original, hi-res image can be found on NASA's website, or on its Instagram account. The photo has received 47,600 "likes" on Instagram. NASA uses Instagram. NASA.
Hopkins, as the news media has been sharing throughout the week, was one of the astronauts tasked with repairing a degraded cooling pump on the exterior of the International Space Station. Astronaut Rick Mastracchio, also on the spacewalk, took this most epic of Christmas Eve portraits. He's the spacebloke reflected in Mike's helmet.
But it also would have been perfect to be floating outside the International Space Station, with the entirety of our beautiful, fragile planet behind me.
This photo captures astronaut Mike Hopkins during one of two Christmas Eve spacewalks outside the International Space Station. The original, hi-res image can be found on NASA's website, or on its Instagram account. The photo has received 47,600 "likes" on Instagram. NASA uses Instagram. NASA.
Hopkins, as the news media has been sharing throughout the week, was one of the astronauts tasked with repairing a degraded cooling pump on the exterior of the International Space Station. Astronaut Rick Mastracchio, also on the spacewalk, took this most epic of Christmas Eve portraits. He's the spacebloke reflected in Mike's helmet.
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