Covid from space: the humans furthest from the pandemic - video
by Alina Manolache, Vladimir Potop, Lindsay Poulton a from Science | The Guardian on (#5C6F7)
Astronaut Jessica Meir's seven-month mission on the International Space Station (expedition 62, from September 2019-April 2020) glides from the euphoria of the first days in zero gravity, to the deep pressure of the first all-female spacewalk in history, and finally to a completely unexpected event: seeing the global pandemic on Earth unfold from orbit. Will the astronaut be returning to a completely different planet?
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