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        A photograph shared by NASA astronaut Christina Koch shows the boundary between day and night on Earth. (Image: © NASA) #Astronaut #InternationalSpaceStation #ChristinaKoch #NASA An evocative new photo from the International Space Station shows what it's like to fly along the line between darkness and daylight on planet Earth. Expedition 59 astronaut Christina Koch posted the eerie view on Twitter May 20 from one of the windows of the station; the view includes a glimpse of one the orbiting complex's solar arrays. Below, night gradually gives way to daylight as clouds streak above the Earth's surface. "A couple times a year, the @Space_Station orbit happens to align over the day/night shadow line on Earth," Koch wrote with the posted photo. "We are continuously in sunlight, never passing into Earth's shadow from the sun, and the Earth below us is always in dawn or dusk. Beautiful time to cloud watch." Koch added the hashtag #nofil

#InternationalSpaceStation #ISS  #Moon #NASA #Spacex  HOUSTON — Jim Bridenstine wants to make sure that there is never another day when humans are not in space.  "In fact," the NASA administrator said, "we want lots of humans in space." Bridenstine, who  became the space agency's chief in April , recently sat down with Space.com and other reporters during a visit to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, during which he shared what he saw as his priority for NASA going forward. [ These 9 Astronauts Will Fly the 1st Flights on SpaceX and Boeing Spaceships ] "When you look back at history, look back at the end of the Apollo program, 1972 when we didn't go back to the moon... you look back and there was a period of time thereafter Apollo and before the space shuttles when we had a gap of human spaceflight capability," Bridenstine said. "And then you go forward and look at the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011, and now we'

Jeanette Epps.NASA Johnson/Shutterstock #Astronaut #InternationalSpaceStation #JeanetteEpps #JohnsonSpaceCenter #Racism, #Sexism NASA bumped her, and she says they never told her why. Jeanette Epps was preparing for a historic launch to the International Space Station in January when NASA suddenly pulled her off the mission without warning. Epps is still waiting for an explanation, the Houston Chronicle reported. In a January press release, NASA announced that Epps would not be part of the Expedition 56/57 crew as previously announced and that she would "return to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to assume duties in the Astronaut Office and be considered for assignment to future missions." Rachel Becker of The Verge noted that although other African Americans had been to the International Space Station, Epps would have been the first to live and work there on a long-term basis. On June 6, the six-month mission launched without Epps. NA