Astronaut Mike Hopkins who happens to be right now on board the International Space Station, jumped onto Twitter the other day and posted this breathtaking photo above. On Twitter he said, “I saw something launch into space today. Not sure what it was, but the cloud it left behind was pretty amazing.”
Now NASA tries to inform the ISS of all nearby events like satellite launches, missiles launches, rockets and such, but not this week. This event unfolded with NASA in the dark. Sure there is a government shut down, but they still have a lot of people on hand at NASA to keep track of the ISS and help then out.
