Here’s how the Earth looked to astronauts in the SpaceX capsule

Tony Joseph 4 years ago 2 min read

NASA astronaut Victor Glover, one of four astronauts aboard the SpaceX crew dragon capsule, posted a video to Twitter of the stunning view from Earth on their first trip to space.

“My first video from space. Dragon is looking at the Earth through the window of resilience,” said Glover Twitter. “The scale of detail and sensory inputs made it a breathtaking perspective!”

The video shows gloves sitting from a window soaking into the scene from an outdoor location. A pilot, serving as a pilot and second-in-command on the dragon, said the scene was amazing but the video “doesn’t do it justice.”

NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins and Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi are also members of the mission, called Crew-1.

This marks the second-ever crew flight of a SpaceX spacecraft.

Earlier this week, Glover also tweeted a Photo For his “new home”, where he is working from the International Space Station in the coming months.

While more than a dozen black Americans have traveled to space since Guon Bloford became the first to do so in 1983, Glover is the first black Full time crew member On the ISS.

The spacecraft had soared into outer space from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center – NASA hopes the company’s years will mark the kick of years helping to keep the International Space Station in its entirety. Crew dragon Docked On November 16 with the International Space Station.

Crew-1 astronauts are expected to spend about six months on the ISS, where they will work on a variety of science experiments and take a space walk to continue updates and repairs on the space station’s exterior.

Jackie Vottles of CNN contributed to this report.