Astronaut Kjell Lindgren spent close to five months on the International Space Station last year serving as a NASA flight engineer and mission specialist. He still remembers the first time he saw the Earth from space. “I saw this really bright white light coming through the small windows of the Soyuz capsule,” he told The Week. “I took a peek and saw the beautiful blue and whites of the Earth below, and the curvature of…
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