NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, who is currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has posted an amazing time-lapse video on Twitter. It was filmed by his friend and colleague Soichi Noguchi.
I didn’t think the views could get any better, then my crewmate @Astro_Soichi took this night timelapse from Resilience and I was blown away. pic.twitter.com/2aKD9bgzJ4
— Mike Hopkins (@Astro_illini) April 12, 2021
The video in question was taken from the Crew Dragon spacecraft nicknamed Resilience and shows the planet Earth as only a handful of chosen people can see it with their own eyes.
Noguchi himself has published a number of successful films since his arrival on the ISS. One of them is the following shot of the Milky Way:
#Milkyway view from #Dragon eye #天の川 pic.twitter.com/8hi1Tqxky9
— NOGUCHI, Soichi 野口 聡一（のぐち そういち） (@Astro_Soichi) April 11, 2021
Recall that on Thursday, April 22, another Crew Dragon - Endeavor - should set out as part of the Crew-2 mission to the ISS. Earlier this month, four astronauts made room for him.
The Resilience ship thus moved to the International Docking Adapter 3 (IDA-3), which was installed on the Harmony module port in 2019. Of course, we will follow the course of the above-mentioned Crew-2 mission live.
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