Astronaut shows International Space Station from inside
The astronaut showed what the ISS looks like (collage: RBC-Ukraine)
In his Instagram, Swedish astronaut Markus Wandt has shown what the International Space Station looks like, where he is on SpaceX's AX-3 mission. He went into space on January 18, 2024 aboard the Crew Dragon.
What ISS looks like inside
Wandt has published several posts from his "space workplace".
"My working station is an incredible piece of spacecraft engineering. This is how I see the ISS from the inside. The International Space Station is a football-pitch-sized spacecraft that travels about 400 km above your heads at 28 000 km per hour, circling Earth approximately 16 times every day," the astronaut wrote.
He also noted that this is the largest object ever built in orbit. For more than two decades, the station has been a place that has brought humanity together to live and work in space.
International Space Station (photo: Instagram/esaastro_marcus)
"I want to explore and open our world, to learn and create new things that bring progress back to Earth. I want to be part of building the foundation from which humankind can reach further," Wandt added.
Marcus Wandt shared a photo from the ISS (photo: Instagram/esaastro_marcus)
Also, the astronaut admitted that he was stunned by the view of the Earth from space.
"The world is incredibly beautiful and something we need to take care of and look after. It is also interesting seeing the world without borders and multiple continents at once. The question arises in me: why can’t we cooperate more and live better side by side? If I just look up all I see is the vast emptiness of space. And then you realise that we are quite small in the Universe," added Wandt.
Marcus Wandt shared a photo from the ISS (photo: Instagram/esaastro_marcus)
Earlier, we talked about how the colonization of the Moon will take place in the next 50 years.
