Don Pettit, arguably the best photographer to ever visit space, will return for a fourth spaceflight later this year.
Not only will Don Pettit become the second-oldest NASA astronaut ever to visit space when he returns for his fourth mission in September, but arguably the best photographer to ever blast off into orbit will return to the International Space Station .
It will be almost 30 years since Pettit’s first spaceflight. He has logged 370 days in space and has been on two spacewalks that lasted a total of 13 hours and 17 minutes.Not only has Pettit taken spectacular images but he has also helped his fellow astronauts capture better photos by inventing a barn door tracker from “stuff lying around” the ISS. It is a device that counteracts orbital motion in space allowing photographers to capture sharp images of cities at night.
“It will reduce the motion so that the shaft turns one revolution every 90 minutes—that’s the station’s orbital period,” he“And the station will pitch down at a rate that makes one revolution about its center of gravity. That way, the same side of the station points towards Earth as it goes around. This pitch rate is about four degrees a minute.
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