Timelapse video made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s second mission to the International Space Station, “Alpha”. The camera is setup to take pictures at regular intervals, the pictures are then played quickly after each other at faster than normal speed. Thomas shared this video on social media with the caption.

NASA astronauts Megan McArthur, Shane Kimbrough, JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet flew to the International Space Station in Crew Dragon Endeavour as part of Crew-2.

On 21 July the four astronauts got into their spacesuits and took their Dragon spacecraft for a spin to undock from the forward port of Harmony and redocked with the same module on another port.

Over 200 experiments are planned during Thomas’ time in space, with 40 European ones and 12 new experiments led by the French space agency CNES.

Latest updates on the Alpha mission can be found via @esaspaceflight on Twitter, with more details on ESA’s exploration blog via thomaspesquet.esa.int.

Background information on the Alpha mission is available at www.esa.int/MissionAlpha with a brochure at www.esa.int/AlphaBrochure.