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iss071e067117 (May 8, 2024) --- The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate Earth's atmosphere and reveal the cloud tops in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above the Atlantic Ocean.
iss071e067263 (May 9, 2024) --- New Zealand's Egmont National Park hosts the dormant volcano, Mount Taranaki, in this photgraph from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above the Tasman Sea.
iss071e066956 (May 9, 2024) --- The inside of the Kibo laboratory module's airlock safely links the pressurized environment of the International Space Station to the vacuum of space. Astronauts load hardware, experiments, and CubeSats inside the airlock then depressurize it before the external hatch opens to the harsh environment of space. The Japanese robotic arm grapples the research hardware and installs it on an external pallet or points a small satellite deployer away from the station and deploys the CubeSats into Earth orbit.
iss071e062803 (May 8, 2024) --- The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate Earth's atmosphere in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above the Pacific Ocean.