In May, the International Space Station made its 100,000th orbit of the Earth, and it has reached nearly 16 years of continuous human occupancy. Expedition 47 began in March, and will be completed later this month. Astronauts Timothy Kopra, Yuri Malenchenko, Timothy Peake, Aleksey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka, and Jeffrey Williams, from the US, UK, and Russia, have been conducting experiments and taking some amazing photographs during their tour in orbit.

- Tim Kopra photographed his breakfast floating inside of the Unity module aboard the International Space Station. In a Tweet, he remarked "#Breakfast taco on #ISS: refried beans, shredded pork, pepperjack cheese, eggs, and salsa on a tortilla. Awesome..."NASA
- CubeSats fly free after leaving the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer on the International Space Station. Seen here are two LEMUR-2 satellites. The NanoRacks-LEMUR-2 satellites are part of a remote sensing satellite constellation that provides global ship tracking and weather monitoring.NASA
- The six crew members of Expedition 47 pose for a picture from inside Orbital ATK's Cygnus vehicle. The resupply craft was named the S.S. Rick Husband in honor of Col. Rick Husband, USAF, the commander of Columbia (STS-107), which was lost during reentry years ago on February 1, 2003. Crew from far left going clockwise: NASA's Tim Kopra, Roscosmos' Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin, NASA's Jeff Williams, Roscosmos' Yuri Malenchenko, ESA's Tim Peake.NASA
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