Photo of the Day #2: Calypso and the Aurora...

NASA / Matthew Dominick

Earlier today, NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick—who flew to the International Space Station (ISS) on SpaceX's Crew-8 mission last March and is currently a member of the station's Expedition 71 crew—took this amazing photo of Boeing's Starliner Calypso capsule as it and the ISS flew over the Northern Lights above the night side of the Earth.

According to Dominick's post on X this morning, he and fellow ISS crew members were gazing at aurorae outside the Cupola windows "a lot lately. Starliner was doing some testing today so we decided to check it out from (Crew Dragon Endeavour's) windows. Timing was great for the aurora to line up nicely with Starliner’s service module thrusters."

Such an awesome image! Dominick and the rest of the Expedition 71 crew have till June 22 to continue taking jaw-dropping photos of Starliner with the backdrop of Earth below it...before the Boeing capsule departs the orbital outpost with fellow NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard, re-enters the atmosphere, and lands at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, completing the Crew Flight Test.