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10 questions linked to/from Did anybody on the ISS photograph this partial eclipse? How long did it last? How did they safely photograph it?
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Does the ISS have zenith-facing windows?
I was looking at the NASA image of the day today, and it made me wonder about the windows on the ISS. I often see pictures of Earth taken from the ISS, but I was wondering if they had any windows that ...
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Why does the ISS cupola have Interior Protective Sliding Windows
As shown in the center right part of the picture, the International Space Station cupola has an interior sliding window frame, maybe detachable, such as cameras among other instrumentation.
Note that ...
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Have any space stations experienced a total solar eclipse?
Have any space stations experienced a total solar eclipse [edit: with the moon blocking out the sun, and seen from the vicinity of the Earth *sigh*]? Otherwise, will any manned satellites pass through ...
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Were there any STS missions that included maneuvers that might have photographed ISS's top side?
It looks like this answer is converging on a conclusive answer about a zenith-facing window on the ISS, and possibly also a window which might at least be able to offer a bit of a view of the zenith.
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Has the ISS ever "flown upside down"? Has the cupola ever "looked up"?
For a spacecraft in low Earth orbit let's call the zenith direction (vector away from Earth) "up".
For most of its life I think the ISS has orbited with it's "up side" pointed &...
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How are cameras arranged and used to monitor activities outside the ISS?
Questions like Does the ISS have zenith-facing windows? and also Does the ISS have any ability to detect or sense unexpected/unscheduled objects in close proximity? have also been asked about ways to ...
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Is this the only eclipse where Moon's shadow on the Earth (umbra) has been photographed by a person in space?
In this nice video musing about (among other things) the US Naval Observatory's $3,500 expedition to Baker City or at least Baker County Oregon to observe the June 18, 1918 solar eclipse, there is ...
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Will ISS astronauts be able to observe the 2024 solar eclipse?
Observing a total solar eclipse is an amazing experience, but observing it from orbit would be truly spectacular. The ISS astronauts could potentially have an opportunity in 2024, but will the ground ...
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Is this window zenith-facing? (ISS docked Soyuz) If so, how directly?
Pursuant to the question Does the ISS have zenith-facing windows? to which the conclusion (in my opinion) is that there may be a window that provides an oblique view that might include the zenith if ...
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Has an astronaut ever gone into a docked capsule to take a photo out one of its windows?
A discussion below this answer to Did anybody on the ISS photograph this partial eclipse? How long did it last? How did they safely photograph it? has me wondering if astronauts can ever see "up&...
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