Epic Photos from ISS Spacewalks Prove Space Makes Everything Better

Thanks to the Internet, it’s now super easy for everyone to see what the Earth looks like from an astronaut’s point of view. (Mostly, it looks frighteningly far away, but also beautiful.) International Space Station astronauts have been working on the outside of the station a lot recently, so we’ve got the best of their amazing pictures for you.

Hanging out on Christmas Evepic.twitter.com/MvELw8tzRe

— Rick Mastracchio (@AstroRM) December 25, 2013

This. This is why you should be following astronauts on Twitter. How did you spend your Christmas Eve? Probably not hurtling through space making a full orbit of the Earth every 90 minutes like Rick Mastracchio, that’s for sure. Read more...