[🇫🇷 version FR 👇] Apparently, there were auroras on our flight home! The French Air and Space Force crew woke everyone up to see them… everyone except me. I missed the show because I really needed the rest – my amazing flight surgeons made sure I got it!
📸 From the ISS: ESA/NASA – S. Adenot
📸 From the flight home: ESA
Apparemment, il y a eu des aurores boréales pendant notre vol de retour ! L’équipage @Armee_de_lair a réveillé tout le monde pour les admirer… ou presque ! Mes médecins de vol ont estimé (et ils ont eu raison !) qu’il était préférable que je dorme, du coup j’ai raté le spectacle...
#εpsilon • @esa
“It was the greatest adventure that four humans can ever go on.”
Listen to Artemis II's Christina Koch and Reid Wiseman reflect on their historic, 10-day journey around the Moon in a recent episode of Houston We Have a Podcast: go.nasa.gov/3VTEjr2
ALT The thumbnail for Houston We Have a Podcast Episode 440, "To the Moon and Back Again With Reid and Christina." It includes Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch posing in front of imagery from the Artemis II mission, including the moment of launch and a crisp shot of the Moon.
"A friend of mine once said that the future promised us flying cars, but instead we got 140 characters. Well, not anymore."
Elon at tonight's Tesla Roadster event, right after the car flew.
Another power upgrade is coming ⚡
The final pair of roll-out solar arrays have arrived at the space station aboard the latest SpaceX Dragon resupply.go.nasa.gov/4yhOGCr
ALT View of the International Space Station's exterior showing large roll-out solar arrays extending across the frame. Station truss structures, robotic hardware, and attached modules are visible against the dark background of space. The solar arrays appear illuminated by sunlight, highlighting the power-generating systems that support station operations and research in orbit.
ALT Illuminated solar arrays and structural trusses of the International Space Station are shown against the darkness of space, with sunlight flaring near the center of the frame and Earth’s curved horizon visible below.
ALT Two NASA astronauts in white spacesuits work outside the International Space Station, with one holding a rectangular hardware unit while a robotic arm assists near the station’s orange solar arrays.
ALT Two cylindrical Roll Out Solar Arrays wrapped in striped insulation are secured in the trunk of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft surrounded by structural supports and cables.