Our Amazing Planet Earth Photographed By A Guy In Space

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Our Amazing Planet Earth Photographed By A Guy In Space · 3

eb · 4414 days ago

These weren't taken by a billion dollar satellite, just a dude and his Nikon. Turns out Dutch astronaut and physician Andre Kuipers, currently doing research on the International Space Station, is quite the interstellar shutterbug. All of the captions and photos (save the last) are his. Some of these don't even look real

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b_b · 4414 days ago · link ·

Man I can't wait for space tourism :/

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