“I didn’t think opinions could improve!” Astronaut shares fascinating Milky Way timelapse video from Crew Dragon Resilience
- Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi captured the timelapse video from space
- He was in the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience capsule when he made 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, left NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins “amazed” by its beauty.
The clip features a field of black and blue stars moving across the frame and was taken over by Japanese aerospace agency Soichi Noguchi (JAXA).
“I didn’t think opinions could be better, then my crewmate [Soichi Noguchi] took the timelapse tonight from Resilience and I was amazed, “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 SpaceX’s Crew-1 mission in November 2020.
The clip features a field of black and blue stars moving across the frame and was taken by Japanese aerospace agency Soichi Noguchi (JAXA).
The four astronauts, including Noguchi and Hopkins, had to move their SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience capsule to make way for the SpaceX missions they received.
The Crew-1 astronauts were the first to be flown to the ISS by a commercial operator and the first on U.S. soil since the spacecraft’s last flight in 2011.
Noguchi, who made the sensational video of stars moving outside the Crew Dragon spacecraft, traveled to the ISS three times.
His first was on the spacecraft, which was withdrawn in 2011, then he flew to the station on a Soyuz spacecraft operated by Roscosmos, and finally on his last voyage he became the first Japanese astronaut to fly on a ship. commercial space.
With another SpaceX Dragon crew arriving at the ISS on April 22 and cargo flights to take place in the next few weeks, the team had to release a docking port.
The resilience was docked with the Harmony module, but had to be “repaired” on April 5 – the first time for a commercial spacecraft anchored with the ISS.
Hopkins, Victor Glover and NASA’s Shannon Walker and Noguchi wore their flight suits to move the capsule in a process that lasted about 45 minutes.
The reason they had to be on the Crew Dragon vehicle was to make sure that if he couldn’t re-dock, 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 will take on NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough, acting as commander of the spacecraft, and Megan McArthur, as a pilot.
They will be joined by European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Akihiko Hoshide on April 22nd.
One week later, on April 28, the Crew-1 mission will end when Hopkins, Walker, Victor Glover and Soichi Noguchi splash near Florida.
The pair shared a trip to the orbiting lab with two other NASA astronauts as part of SpaceX’s Crew-1 mission in November 2020.
The resistance of the returning crew Dragon will be renewed for the “Inspiration4 mission”, which will take four private citizens to the ISS no earlier than mid-September.
The latest launch for the ISS saw a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts exploding on a Soyuz rocket and docking with the station.
NASA’s Mark Vande Hey, Soyuz commander Oleg Novitskly and Roscosmos flight engineer Pyotr Dubrov made the trip on Monday.