Photos taken from The International Space Station.

Here's why astronauts don't use pencils in space.

The astronauts from International Space Station take and send back photos of Earth almost daily thanks to powerful digital cameras. The ISS has spent 17 years in space having travelled over 2.6 billion miles around the planet and has circled it more than 100,000 times since. Let's take a look at this eye-pleasing view.
 

The NASA Space Food Systems Laboratory (SFSL) is responsible for developing the US astronauts’ meals. The food needs to be high quality, easy to prepare in the weightlessness of space and must conform to the spacecraft stowage requirements. In addition, astronauts’ experience a loss in their sense of taste while in space and the SFSL make an extra effort to create spicy, flavour-filled food items to compensate for this.

These stunning photos of International Space Station astronauts taking a leisurely spacewalk, from a variety of different missions including the latest one, will take your breath away. Replete with Earth’s bright blue sky as a backdrop, each photo gives a new meaning to floating in space. Several things are for sure, astronauts cannot be scared of heights and they have a great view from work.