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Expedition 47 Crew Poses For Photo Inside Cygnus

Six crew members pose for photograph inside Cygnus spacecraft docked with space station
The six crew members of Expedition 47 pose for a picture from inside Orbital ATK's Cygnus vehicle. The resupply craft was named the S.S. Rick Husband in honor of Col. Rick Husband, USAF, the commander of Columbia (STS-107), which was lost during reentry years ago on February 1, 2003.

(ISS047e023531) The six crew members of Expedition 47 pose for a picture from inside Orbital ATK’s Cygnus vehicle. The resupply craft was named the S.S. Rick Husband in honor of Col. Rick Husband, USAF, the commander of Columbia (STS-107), which was lost during reentry years ago on February 1, 2003. Orbital ATK’s fifth cargo delivery flight under its Commercial Resupply Services contract delivered over 7,700 pounds of cargo and included equipment to support some 250 experiments during Expeditions 47 and 48.

Crew from far left going clockwise: NASA’s Tim Kopra, Roscosmos’ Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin, NASA’s Jeff Williams, Roscosmos’ Yuri Malenchenko, ESA’s Tim Peake.

Image Credit: NASA