{"id":21413,"date":"2025-04-21T21:49:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/5-of-our-favorite-photos-taken-by-don-pettit-while-on-the-iss\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T21:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:49:57","slug":"5-of-our-favorite-photos-taken-by-don-pettit-while-on-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/5-of-our-favorite-photos-taken-by-don-pettit-while-on-the-iss\/","title":{"rendered":"5 of our favorite photos taken by Don Pettit while on the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a seven-month stay in space, NASA astronaut Don Pettit returned Saturday on the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft in Kazakhstan. While in space, Pettit wowed the world with a constant stream of photos taken outside the windows of the ISS. Here are some of our favorites.<\/p>\n

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1. Lake Baikal<\/h2>\n

The Cupola, one of the more famous pieces of the ISS, is a workstation with large windows allowing for a fantastic view of the Earth below. However, the main purpose of the Cupola is to allow onboard crew members a way to keep an eye on operations outside the station, like arriving spacecraft, spacewalks, and operating Canadarm2.<\/p>\n

Normally, you\u2019ll see plenty of photos taken through one of the Cupola windows. Pettit, being the photographer he is, used the window\u2019s structure itself to frame Lake Baikal while flying over Russia using an 8mm fisheye from the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Image: Don Pettit<\/p>\n

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Image: Don Pettit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2. Milky Way<\/h2>\n

We\u2019ve all seen the jaw-dropping long exposures of the night sky out in the deserts where no light pollution can hide the view of our Milky Way galaxy. In space, the brightness of the Earth can usually make it hard to see the stars. However, using a tracker brought up on a SpaceX Crew-9 spacecraft, Pettit was able to capture this ten-second exposure to take one of the best photos of the Milky Way seen from Earth.<\/p>\n

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