
Joseph Connolly is an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.

The Russian seaport of Tuapse is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited above the Black Sea.

Glaciers are pictured in the Pamir Mountains as the International Space Station orbited above Tajikistan.

A portion of the Volga River is pictured as the International Space Station orbited above Russia near the Caspian Sea.

This week in 2012, the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager was launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

The crew aboard the International Space Station snapped this image of the Earth’s limb, or horizon, with the Sun’s glint…

Mobile launcher returns to the Vehicle Assembly Building ahead of Artemis launch.

The Sun’s glint beaming off the Gulf of California.

The Sun’s glint beaming off the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay.

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins sets up a small satellite deployer.