Posts: 78
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Jul 2009

posted 08-30-2024 11:01 PM               

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Is there a place to find a complete album of photos sent down from the various commercial crew vehicles and/or the International Space station?

I’m pretty frustrated with the official NASA Flickr page. There seems to be a lot going on right now (Crew Dragon reconfiguration, for example) that I’ve seen no photos or video of.

Maybe it's not desirable to show how SpaceX is essentially bailing out Boeing, but it's at least fairly historic. It reminds me of the Skylab rescue spacecraft or the infamous inflatable rescue balls from the shuttle program. It’d be nice to see some of what they’re doing!

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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 08-31-2024 09:39 AM               

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All current photos from the International Space Station can either be found on Johnson Space Center's Flickr account, on NASA's main image repository, or on the X (formerly Twitter) accounts of astronauts aboard the orbiting complex.

That said, the commercial spacecraft operators control what photos are released, as the equipment in their vehicles (and the vehicles themselves) are proprietary. So you will not find many, if any, images taken inside Dragon, Cygnus or Starliner.

Posts: 78
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Jul 2009

posted 08-31-2024 10:28 AM               

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Thanks Robert. I figured that was the case with the commercial vehicles. I’m guessing that's the same reason that we see such little photography from any of the private flights.

My frustration with the Flickr pages has always been how long it takes them to update it and their infatuation with posting pics of astronauts with their hands in a glove box (yawn) when there's so much more going on up there.