Latest Super Bowl photos offer a treat for celestial-viewers
Those in love with celestial-viewing are in for a special treat as they are getting to see how the Super Bowl 50 looks like from space.
American astronaut Scott Kelly, a retired US Navy captain who has to his credit the record for spending maximum number of days in space, has been sending to the Earth close visuals of Super Bowl, something that has turned out to be the coolest party related to the celestial body for those living on the Earth.
On a year-long mission to the International Space Station, Kelly has prepared a solo set-up for the big event and has been capturing amazing shots from the outer space. He claims people may have seen plenty of Super Bowls in their life, but these ones are special and “never seen before”. For months, these photos from aboard the International Space Station have been blowing earthbound minds.
On Sunday, Kelly shared a latest picture on Super Bowl from high above Levi's Stadium in the Bay Area.
Meanwhile, the astronauts took a day-off and watched Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos square off Sunday. Kelly (a Houston Texans fan) and another astronaut, Tim Kopra, though, did not immediately announce their picks for the big game.
“Crew will be able to watch in real time; it will be sent up as usual for live events from Mission Control Houston. It's a nominal off-duty Sunday for the entire crew, so no additional tasks for them aside from exercise”, said NASA spokesman Dan Huot.
After their day off, the crewmembers will be back to routine experiments on the space station. Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are within four weeks of the end of their yearlong mission, and the two are currently joined by Kopra, British astronaut Tim Peake, and cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Sergey Volkov.