NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick is spending his last days aboard the International Space Station (@ISS) as #Crew8's landing has been rescheduled for after October 13 due to potential impacts from Hurricane #Milton.

Matthew Dominick, NASA astronaut, assesses his last few days aboard the International Space Station (@ISS) for potential impacts from Hurricane #Milton as #Crew8's landing has been rescheduled for after October 13.

“I'm looking out a Dragon Endeavor window framing the red and green aurora streaming from Dragon Freedom docked to the front of the International Space Station. When Crew-9 arrived, I moved out of my crew quarters on the ISS to make room for @AstroHague.

Now I'm sleeping aboard Dragon Endeavor as we wait to leave port. We get most of our images from the dome, but it's great to sleep here. This is the view out the window tonight. ...

I miss my family and friends, but if we had anchored today we would have missed today's crazy aurora borealis. Today I watched the aurora from the dome with Don Pettit and on a later pass I watched it from Endeavor with @AstroHague.”

Image description:

A window from Dragon Endeavour, docked to the ISS, looks out at Earth. A cloud bank is visible beneath a vibrant green aurora; shades of magenta hover over it in the distance. In contrast, the left half of the window is lit in blue.

 

Credit: NASA/Matthew Dominick