Moonrise at sunrise as photographed from the International Space Station
By Tom Yulsman | October 29, 2019 8:44 pm
NASA astronaut Christina Koch shot this image of moonrise at sunrise from the International Space Station. (Source: Christina Koch/NASA via Twitter)
I spotted this serenely beautiful photo of the crescent moon rising above the limb of the Earth at sunrise on Twitter. I was so taken with it that I just had to share it.
It’s undated, but this stunning moonrise at sunrise photo was photographed recently by NASA astronaut Christina Koch from the International Space Station.
On Oct. 18, Koch made history with her fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, when the two accomplished the first all-female spacewalk. They spent seven hours outside the space station, fixing a failed power controller.
As photographed by Koch, the blue luminous envelope of Earth’s atmosphere seems tenuously thin. This helps me grasp how we humans, a seemingly puny species, could actually alter the makeup of the atmosphere in a way that fundamentally alters the climatic life support system of our planet.
More:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2019/10/29/moonrise-at-sunrise-as-photographed-from-the-international-space-station/#.Xbk1uOhKjIV
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Then, to learn she drove a motorcycle cross-country from North Carolina to Montana alone 
and even constructed her own Tesla coil..... How on earth did she manage to do so much already in her life?
She's working on setting new records with this space flight, it almost looks as if it won't end for a long time!
Good grief.
So glad you've contributed all this information. Thank you, so much.
She will be someone to watch and remember for a very long time.
One thing that just gets a brief mention is her completion of flight training. She learned to fly a jet plane, a T-38 to be exact, which is in itself a large achievement. Yet it barely gets a mention. I'm sure there's much more to come from this remarkable lady.
❤ Thanks again, Judi Lynn. ❤
T-38 Talon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_T-38_Talon
