“Two days after the spacewalk happened, Smith contacted me,” Sebastian wrote on.

It was only two days later, following a tip from fellow astrophotographer Philip Smith, that he realised he had also captured Raja.

Getty Images / Joe Raedle Matthias Maurer, ESA astronaut on the International Space Station ISS, can be seen on a video screen during a live call with the Federal President. Courtesy of NASA astronaut Raja Chari gestures to his family before being driven to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on Nov. NASA Astronauts Chari and Maurer were climbing around the extraterrestrial lab’s exterior. NASA astronaut Raja Chari and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer are conducting a spacewalk to install new hoses on the International Space Station’s Radiator Beam Valve Module. Sebastian’s original goal was to nab a picture of the ISS while his countryman was at work on the exterior. He’s visible at work near the ISS’s Columbus European lab segment, while Raja appears on the robotic arm “Canadarm2”. Wendel in west Germany, the hometown of ESA astronaut Maurer. Sebastian took the photo through his C11 EdgeHD telescope from St. They performed a number of minor part installations and fixes during the seven-hour, zero-gravity maintenance job. The photo was snapped on March 23 as the space station – which orbits 250 miles above Earth – passed over Germany.Īt the time, astronauts Raja Chari and Matthias Maurer were clambering around the extraterrestrial lab’s exterior during a planned spacewalk. “It’s probably the first ground-based picture showing two spacewalkers on the ISS at the same time.” “I feel like I just made a once in a lifetime image,” he wrote of the photograph. Sebastian captured the “once-in-a-lifetime” photo earlier last week and later shared his creation on Twitter. German photographer Sebastian Voltmer snapped a remarkable image in which you can make out two astronauts performing a spacewalk. NASA reveals the key sign it’s now hunting for in space April Fool’s Day asteroid photographed ahead of close approachīarrage of solar storms to strike Earth today triggering aurorasīlue Origin pushes space launch to Thursday

Earth view from space station