SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS RECOGNIZE THE NATION’S INDEPENDENCE DAY
HQ · 2021-07-04
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 65 Flight Engineers Megan McArthur, Shane Kimbrough and Mark Vande Hei of NASA recorded a message June 19 for the nation’s celebration of its 245th birthday from their orbital vantage point 252 miles above Earth. McArthur and Kimbrough launched to the station in April in a SpaceX Crew Dragon atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just two weeks after Vande Hei launched to the complex aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.