Hello USA! | International Space Station

Hello USA! | International Space Station

Expedition 73 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Anne McClain: "Hello to half of the USA! I love the different and distinct shapes of the cities. This was taken the week before last, during a period where, for us, the sun never fully set. While it was night time below us, we were lit up with a never-ending sunset. The sunset fading into an aurora was spectacular! The sun’s angle did make it hard to avoid the rock-chip highlights on our window that you see in this."

Notice the 17-meter (55+ foot) long Canadian Space Agency Canadarm2 robotic arm also visible here.

Learn about Canadian space robotics:

https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/iss/robotics/default.asp

Follow Expedition 73:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: JAXA Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Image Credit: NASA/JSC/Anne McClain

Release Date: July 21, 2025

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