Chris Williams (@Astro

Chris Williams

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Chris Williams

@Astro_ChrisW

@NASA Astronaut, Group 23 | Expedition 74 Flight Engineer | 📍@Space_Station

International Space Station

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Joined May 2022

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Chris Williams
@Astro_ChrisW
May 4
One question I get a lot is can you see the stars differently from up in space. When we orbit on the night side of the planet, we get a view of the stars very much like being in a very dark place on Earth. And because of our orbital inclination, we get to see the stars of both
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Chris Williams
@Astro_ChrisW
Apr 30
On April 27th at about 10:40 PM GMT, I was in the @Space_Station Cupola and saw something really neat. I was scanning the sky to try to catch a glimpse of the approaching Progress MS-34 vehicle bringing new supplies. Just as we were passing over West Africa, I saw a bright
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Chris Williams
@Astro_ChrisW
Apr 28
I have been playing around with some long exposure shots that show some beautiful effects with our orbital motion. City lights are turned into streaks across the earth, and lightning storms form a speckled pattern during these several-minute exposures.
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Chris Williams
@Astro_ChrisW
Apr 27
Looking out the windows of the @Space_Station during a night pass, you can occasionally see greenish lights just off the coast. These lights are from fishing boats that use the green light to attract squid and other fish. I captured this image while we were flying over the west
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Chris Williams
@Astro_ChrisW
Apr 21
This is an image of Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) that I took from the Cupola on the @Space_Station. I was originally taking some photos looking for meteors from the Lyrid and saw the tail of the comet! It was almost blocked in my view by the base of the Canadarm2 robotic arm, but
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Chris Williams
@Astro_ChrisW
Apr 20
It has been a busy week since the arrival of our latest Cygnus cargo vehicle, S.S. Steven R. Nagel! We were just over the horizon from Florida (where it launched from on a Falcon 9 rocket); however, I was able to catch the rocket trail in this image, as well as the upper stage
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Chris Williams
@Astro_ChrisW
Apr 11
Our crew on the @Space_Station caught a glimpse of the @NASAArtemis II crew as they re-entered the atmosphere from their journey to the Moon! We first saw a bright light and a trail as the service module burned up. We didn’t see the Orion capsule itself as it re-entered, but we
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Chris Williams
@Astro_ChrisW
Apr 6
A few days ago, I was down in the Cupola while we were watching the @NASAArtemis II launch broadcast. As I was floating there, I saw the full Moon rising just past the tip of the Canadarm2. The arm is a crucial part of the @Space_Station, developed by our partners at the
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Chris Williams
@Astro_ChrisW
Apr 6
As the @NASAArtemis II crew approaches the Moon, they will get a firsthand view of the Moon's surface. One of the most striking (pun intended) features they will see is the craters which mark its surface, and are especially numerous on the far side, which the crew will be able to
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International Space Station
@Space_Station
Apr 4
NASA astronaut Chris Williams photographed a full Moon from the International Space Station the day before Artemis II launched. The next day, Williams photographed the exhaust plume left behind by the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that launched Artemis II from NASA’s Kennedy
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International Space Station
@Space_Station
Apr 2
The Expedition 74 astronauts aboard the International Space Station express their gratitude to the teams supporting the @NASAArtemis II crew and its mission to fly around the Moon.
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Chris Williams
@Astro_ChrisW
Apr 2
Godspeed Artemis II! Our crew on the @Space_Station stayed up to watch the launch of our friends on their historic mission to the Moon. We were over the Northern Pacific Ocean at the time of launch, so we couldn’t see it directly (we watched it on NASA TV). However, about a half
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NASA Marshall
@NASA_Marshall
Mar 19
#OTD in 2001, our team at #NASAMarshall began 24/7 support for science on the @Space_Station. This partnership has resulted in over 4,000 different scientific investigations and breakthroughs! Learn more as we celebrate this 25-year milestone: go.nasa.gov/4skSmkQ
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