Jeff williams astronaut pictures of earth

On his most recent trip to the International Space Station (Expedition 48), recently-retired NASA astronaut Jeff Williams has recorded a great HD video of Earth (titled Jeff’s Earth) using an Ultra High Definition video camera.

Here in the video titled “Jeff’s Earth” below, he shares some of those images and talks about the beauty of the planet, the variety of things to see, and the value of sharing that perspective with everyone who can’t go to orbit in person.

The International Space Station (ISS) maintains an orbit with an altitude of between 330 and 435 kilometers (205 and 270 mi).

“The first time you see Planet Earth from space, it’s stunning; when you’ve spent 534 days in space – more than any other American – it still is!”

Jeff Williams

Jeff’s Earth

The transcription of the video:

“I don’t remember exactly where we were, the first time I viewed the earth, but I remember getting out of our spacesuits in the mid-deck of the space shuttle, and then floating back