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ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet inside the cupola

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet inside the cupola
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is pictured inside the International Space Station's "window to the world," the cupola.

iss065e034024 (May 12, 2021) — Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) is pictured inside the International Space Station’s “window to the world,” the cupola. Just outside the cupola are two spacecraft. At right, is the U.S. Northrop Grumman Cygnus space freighter with one of its two prominent cymbal-shaped UtraFlex solar arrays. To the left, and directly behind Pesquet, is the Soyuz MS-17 crew ship.