NASA ASTRONAUT DISCUSSES PHOTOGRAPHY IN SPACE WITH NASASPACEFLIGHT.COM NASA astronaut Don Pettit arrived at the International Space Station in September on his fourth orbital mission in 22 years.
Besides working on various science projects on the space-based facility, Pettit is also known for his keen interest in photography, and regularly shares his impressive efforts — including rivers, clouds, star trails, and high-speed spacecraft — on X and Instagram.
Please enable Javascript to view this content “Images from space help tell the story to people on Earth that don’t have the opportunity to go into space,” Pettit said when asked about why he enjoys taking photos from 250 miles above Earth. He said that alongside the memories of his orbital adventures, “the photographs help complete the story of what it means for human beings to expand into space and expand into this frontier.
Pettit also noted how updates to the ISS’s camera equipment over the years have changed the way he photographs, and how platforms like X and Instagram let him more easily share his work compared to when he first traveled to orbit in the early 2000s. The American astronaut also talked about capturing images from the space station’s seven-window Cupola module, and discussed his barn door tracker invention that allows him to take sharper images of city lights thanks to the tool’s ability to compensates for the ISS’s movement relative to the Earth’s surface.
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