New Year Fireworks Celebrations: Earth Orbital View | International Space Station

New Year Fireworks Celebrations: Earth Orbital View | International Space Station

Expedition 74 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Chris Williams: "New Years fireworks in Baku, Azerbaijan. I was practicing some night time photographs from one of the windows on the International Space Station at the end of the work day on New Years Eve. I had just finished passing over my targets when I noticed something funny—the city below me was twinkling! I quickly took a video, and realized that as we were orbiting further east, we had orbited into 2026, and I was actually seeing the New Years fireworks over Baku, Azerbaijan!"

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Expedition 74 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey-Kud Sverchkov (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineer: Sergei Mikaev

NASA Flight Engineer: Chris Williams

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center/C Williams
Image Details: Nikon Z9/400mm lens

Duration: 5 seconds
Release Date: Jan. 7, 2026

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