Amazing Space Photos by NASA Astronaut Terry Virts

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Astronaut Terry Virts Snaps Expedition 42 Spacewalk

NASA/Terry Virts

U.S. Astronaut Terry Virts took this picture of a spacewalk from the International Space Station during Expedition 42 and posted it to social media on March 1, 2015. Virts wrote, "Can you spot the space walker in this picture? He's very small compared to the enormous starboard truss of the #ISS.”

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