Image: Glorious sunrise at the start of a spacewalk

October 16, 2017

Image: Glorious sunrise at the start of a spacewalk

Credit: NASA

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei exits the International Space Station on Oct. 10, 2017, for a spacewalk in this photograph taken by fellow spacewalker Randy Bresnik.

Bresnik shared the image on social media and wrote, "A glorious sunrise greeted @Astro_Sabot and I at the start of our 2nd #spacewalk. His visor reflection shows the airlock hatch we came out."

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