G. S. Jennsen

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Mind the Stars

We've got so much further we want to go and so much more we want to explore, but look what we've done already. My goodness.

"Space can be a cruel mistress, but she is a beautiful one.

As we await the launch of ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer and the return of Thomas Pesquet, let us marvel at the fact that humans live and work in space, an environment so inhospitable to us.

As Thomas nears the end of his six-month mission Alpha on the Space Station, he took this image, noting that living on the International Space Station “really feels like flying on a spaceship into the cosmos… or wait… that’s what we do.”"

Read more and download the high-res image: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/11/Mind_the_stars#.YYQCdwJtqh8.link

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