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The camera that shot the first spacewalk could be yours, starting at $3,000

Jun 2, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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A camera that was used to shoot a Soviet space mission has been launched for an auction. Heritage Auctions is offering two Konvas Automat cameras, one of which was among the first cameras to ever go to space.

While you would expect historic pieces of gear like this to start bidding at hundreds of thousands of dollars, the bid has started at $3,000 only for each.

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Photographer captures ISS astronauts’ spacewalk from his own backyard

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Apr 4, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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The ISS has been in the center of many photo stories. Sometimes we’d see awesome photos taken from up there, and sometimes the space station itself would make a part of the composition taken from the Earth.

Dr. Sebastian Voltmer pointed his telescope more than 400 km (250 miles) up to the sky, filming the International Space Station in real time. And he didn’t just capture the ISS, but even the spacewalk that was going on while his telescope was pointing up.

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Watch: Timelapse of astronauts installing solar array on the ISS

Jul 8, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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On 16 June current year, the ISS astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough went on a spacewalk. They were on a mission to install a new solar array for the ISS, and they were even caught on camera from Earth (kind of). But if you’d like to get a closer look at the recent spacewalk, ESA has announced two timelapse videos showing the two astronauts in action.

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Watch: Photographer captures the ISS transiting the Sun during a spacewalk

Jul 5, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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On 25 June, astronauts Shane Kimbrough from NASA and ESA’s Thomas Pesquet were on a spacewalk outside the ISS. Little did they know that they would photobomb an image of the ISS transiting the sun. Photographer Joel Kowsky took a series of transit images and it turned out that the two astronauts were there exactly at that time.

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Astronaut’s spacewalk snaps show us that even selfies can be epic

Jan 30, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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I can’t remember if I’ve ever thought of a selfie: “Now, this is what I call an epic shot!” Well, two recent snaps from NASA astronaut Jessica Meir made me change my mind. She recently tweeted two spacewalk selfies from outside the International Space Station (ISS), and they are out of this world, both literally and figuratively.

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