EVA spacewalk Earth view from ISS

por 🏝️ Dr Topaz: Space

An extravehicular activity, or EVA, is what happens when an astronaut leaves the International Space Station. Before stepping out, they clip themselves to the spacecraft. Then it's hours of work, all of it done while floating in the vacuum of space. And here's the part that gets me: the only thing separating a person from all that emptiness is the visor on their helmet. Fewer than 300 humans have ever looked down and watched Earth turn beneath them. That number is wild to sit with