Expedition 48 News
The space station crew that is a part of Expedition 48/49 will be completing 115 days in space, since their launch in July.
With his last few hours in space coming to an end, Jeff Williams shared his final image before descent – a gorgeous view of our home planet – on Twitter.
A few days after this spacewalk is completed, Jeff Williams will head back down to Earth along with his Expedition 48 crew members Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin, leaving the ropes of the ISS in the hands of NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Jeff surpassed 520 days living in space, breaking Kelly's previous record for most cumulative time spent in space by a US astronaut, which was set during Kelly's year-long mission.
The stunning image og the light shows originally photographed by Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams of NASA on June 24, 2016.
And they're off! Expedition 48 astronauts take off for the International Space Station – Watch video
The astronauts will reach the ISS after a two-day-long journey, which will signal the commencement of Expedition 48.
All three will spend approximately four months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in October.
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