They opened the windows on the space station!

[pokerfan]

Endeavour pilot Terry Virts opened the windows of the newly installed cupola one at a time early Wednesday, giving spacewalkers Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick an early look into the International Space Station's room with a view that they had helped install.



Download the embiggened (12 megapixel) picture here:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. I've been watching the mission live on spaceflightnow.com LOVE your use of 'embiggened'! nt

[pokerfan]

2. It's a perfectly cromulent word (nt)

[MineralMan]

3. It's a downright corpulential word.

Am I allowed to say that here?

[tabatha]

4. Flickr uses it (embiggen) for their slideshow controls.

[coolkid115]

11. Love the view!

I've always wanted to go up to space, hopefully someday.

[NoNothing]

5. That's no moon!

Now the Earth will witness the firepower of this fully ARMED AND OPERATIONAL battle station!


Fire at will, commander!

[razorman]

6. Good. Now maybe they can get some cross-breeze ventilation going.

[FSogol]

7. Hope they remembered to put the screens on to keep out the space mosquitoes. n/t

[BadgerKid]

8. Getcher space mosquito

[hunter]

9. How are they going to get any work done now?

I'll bet you could simply float there weightless looking out the windows all day...

[pokerfan]

10. I wonder if that module is available for rent

... by the hour.