“I did not think the views could get any better!” Astronaut shares enchanting timelapse video of the Milky Way from the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft
- Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi recorded the timelapse video from space
- He was in the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience capsule when he took the video
- The video was shared by NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, who was with Noguchi
An enchanting timelapse video taken from the window of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft made NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins ‘wave’ through its beauty.
The clip shows a field of black and blue stars moving across the frame and was taken by the astronaut Soichi Noguchi, the Japanese Aeronautical Exploration Agency (JAXA).
‘I did not think the view could be better, when my crew member [Soichi Noguchi] ‘took time off from Resilience this night and I was blown away,’ Hopkins said.
Noguchi and Hopkins are one of ten astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 250 kilometers above the earth.
The pair shared a ride to the orbital laboratory with two other NASA astronauts as part of the Crew-1 mission that SpaceX operated in November 2020.
The clip shows a field of black and blue stars moving across the frame and was taken by the astronaut Soichi Noguchi of the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA).
The four astronauts, including Noguchi and Hopkins, had to move their SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience capsule to make way for incoming SpaceX missions.
The Crew-1 astronauts are the first to be taken to the ISS by a commercial operator and the first from US soil since the last space shuttle flight in 2011.
Noguchi, who took the sensational video of the stars moving outside the Crew Dragon spacecraft, traveled to the ISS three times.
His first was with the Space Shuttle, which retired in 2011, when he flew to the station with a Soyuz spacecraft operated by Roscosmos, and eventually on his latest voyage becomes the first Japanese astronaut to fly on a commercial spacecraft .
With another SpaceX crew Dragon to arrive at the ISS on April 22 and cargo flights to take place over the next few weeks, the team had to free up a port for port.
Resilience was captured on the Harmony module, but it had to be ‘parked’ on April 5 – the first time for a commercial spaceship moored to the ISS.
Hopkins, Victor Glover and NASA’s Shannon Walker, with Noguchi, wore their flight suits to move the capsule in a process that took about 45 minutes.
The reason they had to be on the Crew Dragon vehicle was to ensure that there would be no more people on ISS if there would be seats on ships to escape if there was a problem in the orbit lab.
Noguchi and Hopkins are one of ten astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 250 kilometers above the earth.
The second SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship takes on NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough as commander of the spacecraft, and Megan McArthur as pilot.
The astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Akihiko Hoshide of the European Space Agency (ESA), astronaut, will join the Japanese Space Agency (ESA) on 22 April.
A week later, on April 28, the Crew-1 mission ends when Hopkins, Walker, Victor Glover and Soichi Noguchi splash near Florida.
The two shared a ride to the orbital laboratory with two other NASA astronauts as part of the Crew-1 mission that SpaceX operated in November 2020.
The return of the Crew Dragon Resilience will be revamped for the ‘Inspiration4 Mission’ which will not take four private citizens to the ISS until mid-September.
The most recent launch for the ISS hit a NASA astronaut and two Russian astronauts on a Soyuz rocket and docked with the station.
NASA’s Mark Vande Hei, Soyuz commander Oleg Novitskly and Roscosmos flight engineer Pyotr Dubrov took off on Monday.