Watch NASA celebrate its 100,000th orbit around Earth with a space party
By Pamela Chow. Photos: NASA Snapchat
The International Space Station (ISS) has officially been around the world 100,000 times since it launched 17 years ago, and if you’re on Snapchat, you can now catch a special ‘live’ feed of their spacey celebration.
Titled “A Day In Space”, the ‘live’ feed follows the exploits of astronaut Tim Kopra, who is spending six months on the ISS.
“To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together; brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold; brothers who know now they are truly brothers.” – American poet Archibald MacLeish, 1968
We couldn’t help but giggle while watching Kopra prepare a floating tortilla, and clean up stray ‘dripping’ sauce by whipping it around in the air.
We’re not kidding. You have to see it for yourself!
Doing mid-air flips must be one of the perks of the job for astronauts. Godspeed ahead, NASA!
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