A stunning image of the International Space Station against a backdrop of the moon has been captured as its astronauts prepared for a spacewalk. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured the image of the station, which is orbiting 400km above the Earth, while on a roadside in Sacramento, California. This rare shot of the reorientated view of the station, captured at about 10:44 GMT on Monday, 'instantly became on of my favourite captures,' explained McCarthy. 'In this image, you can see how the solar array has been reoriented so the crew of the ISS can install new hardware.' The next spacewalk will see Rubins pair up with Soichi Noguchi from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to complete more solar array upgrades.

Source: Daily Mail March 03, 2021 09:43 UTC