Astronaut Thomas Pesquet (thom_astro) of the European Space Agency (europeanspaceagency) shared this image saying "One last glance...before we depart. The Space Station is such a unique and remote and almost magical place… I will miss it." After spending 196 days in space, Pesquet and Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos landed their spacecraft in Kazakhstan at approximately 10:10 a.m. EDT on June 2. Together, the crew pursued hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science aboard humanity’s only orbiting laboratory. The International Space Station (iss) is also the primary platform for technology development and testing in space enabling human and robotic exploration of destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, including Mars. Credit: ESA/NASA #nasa #space #iss #spacestation #astronauts #esa #earth #Proxima #tech #technology