Humans in Space

This is the official portrait of the Expedition 1 crew, the first humans to live aboard the International Space Station. Arriving on station on Nov. 2, 2000, they were the first of 64 crews to live and work aboard the orbital laboratory. During a Jan. 30, 1996, press conference in Washington, DC, Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin announced the assignment of American astronaut William M. Shepherd and Russian cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev to the first team of crewmembers to occupy the International Space Station (ISS). Shepherd had completed three Space Shuttle missions and Krikalev had flown two long-duration missions aboard the Mir space station as well as on STS-60, becoming the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Space…

Night aboard the International Space Station can seemingly look like every spooky sci-fi movie you’ve ever seen. This image shows two empty spacesuits seemingly colluding as most of the astronauts slept. This is one of several images snapped by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst during his first stay on the orbital laboratory in 2014. During his second stay, he served as Space Station Commander. He has spent nearly a year in space, having served two tours on the station. Image Credit: Alexander Gerst/ESA 在国际空间站上的夜晚看似您所看过的每部怪异的科幻电影。此图显示了两个空的宇航服，它们似乎在大多数宇航员睡觉时缠绕在一起。 这是欧洲航天局宇航员亚历山大·格斯特（Alexander Gerst）在2014年首次留在轨道实验室时拍摄的几张照片之一。在他第二次逗留期间，他曾担任空间站指挥官。他已经在太空待了将近一年，在空间站服役了两次。 图片来源：Alexander Gerst/ESA

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins points to the International Space Station’s “voting booth” where she cast her vote from space this month. This is actually Rubins’ second time to vote from low-Earth orbit, having cast her first vote from space in 2016 when she was an Expedition 48-49 crew member. Voting in space has been possible since 1997 when a bill passed to legally allow voting from space in Texas. Since then, several NASA astronauts have exercised this civic duty from orbit. Learn more about how astronauts cast their vote from orbit: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/astronauts-to-vote-in-space. Image Credit: NASA 美国宇航局宇航员凯特·鲁宾斯指着国际空间站的“投票亭”，她本月在太空中投票。这实际上是鲁宾斯第二次在近地轨道上投票，她第一次在太空投票是在2016年，当时她是第48-49远征队的成员。 自从1997年一项允许在德克萨斯州进行太空投票的法案通过以来，太空投票就成为可能。从那时起，美国宇航局的几名宇航员就在轨道上履行了这项公民义务。了解更多关于宇航员如何在轨道上投票的信息:https://www.nasa.gov/feature/astronauts-to vote-in-space。 图片来源：NASA