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Victor Glover, a NASA astronaut who was recently launched to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Crew-1 mission. shared his first video of the Earth taken from space on Twitter. And the breathtaking view drew plenty of comments and likes from the Twitterati.
Taking to the micro-blogging site, he wrote, “My first video from space! Looking at the Earth through the window of Dragon Resilience. The scale of detail and sensory inputs made this a breathtaking perspective!”
In the video he can be heard saying that the video does not do it any justice, adding that it is pretty amazing.
Since being posted on 25 November, the video has received over 1.9 million views, over one lakh likes and has been retweeted over 14 thousand times.
Representational image. credit: Wikimedia commons
My first video from space! Looking at the Earth through the window of Dragon Resilience. The scale of detail and sensory inputs made this a breathtaking perspective! pic.twitter.com/n7b5x0XLIp
— Victor Glover (@AstroVicGlover) November 24, 2020
Victor Glover made history when he got abroad the ISS on 17 November, becoming the first African American to begin a six-month stint on the orbiting lab. Glover, along with Mike Hopkins and Shannon Walker along with Japan’s Soichi Noguchi left Earth aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule ‘Resilience’. It was SpaceX’s first-ever contracted, fully operational astronaut mission to the space station for NASA.
A number of people commented on the video. One wrote, “Stunning! It makes me so happy that you are finally in space witnessing such beauty!”, while another commented, “Everything we know is on that little blue marble. Seeing it from this perspective makes all the stupid petty things we fight overlook like children bickering by comparison.”
A third person added, “It is a pity that we, here on Earth, due to the limitations of the camera, cannot see the stars as you probably can. To see the stars without the filter of the atmosphere, the pollution and the lights of the cities must be impressive.”
Here’s how people reacted:
Stunning! It makes me so happy that you are finally in space witnessing such beauty!
— Evelyn Janeidy Arevalo (@JaneidyEve) November 24, 2020
Everything we know is on that little blue marble. Seeing it from this perspective makes all the stupid petty things we fight over look like children bickering by comparison.
— Morgan, the Bunny with Hoofies (@BunHoofy) November 25, 2020
It is a pity that we, here on Earth, due to the limitations of the camera, cannot see the stars as you probably can. To see the stars without the filter of the atmosphere, the pollution and the lights of the cities must be impressive.
— Nelson Muñoz (@Nelson_Munozlb) November 25, 2020
@AstroVicGlover that’s so cool! It’s even cooler to see that a pilot I worked with in Japan is now up in space serving our country and all of humanity. God Speed Sir!
-Former VFA-115 AT2 & Plane Captain— El Stevano (@Leberneck) November 24, 2020
Thank you so much for posting this. Always a dream of mine— you too and I’m glad your dream has come true. It feels closer receiving this from you via Twitter. Thank you again. Safe travels and landing. I’ll watch you fly by next time you are over Pittsburgh! Happy 🦃 day
— Dr. D. (@devinlisa717) November 24, 2020
This has been my dream, my daily perseverance, my passion, my whole life, I mean everything that drives my curiosity so high with a daily obsession that one day I must be here!!!!!! I can't wait.
— Mightywells (@davmighty) November 24, 2020