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An Astronaut Shares His Passion for Space Photography—Live, from the ISS Cupola

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Ten months ago Science Quickly made space history by conducting the first-ever live interview from the cupola of the International Space Station (ISS). Astronaut Matthew Dominick spoke with Rachel Feltman about his work on the ISS and the stunning space photography that first caught our attention. Watch a video of the interview See more stunning space photographs from Matthew Dominick E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter.  Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Jeff DelViscio with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A loud and clear. Welcome to the cupola on the Space Station.

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For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.

0:47.5

For the next few days, we're doing something a little different.

0:50.8

We're going to use this week to share reruns of three of our favorite episodes from

0:55.0

the past year. First up, we've got to chat with a guy who just needs a little space. Back in

1:01.1

September, we rang at the International Space Station for a live video convo with Matthew Dominic.

1:06.8

At the time, he was serving as the commander and flight engineer of NASA's SpaceX-Cruate

1:11.4

mission, and he spent a lot of his downtime taking and sharing stunning photos, videos,

1:17.3

and time lapses from orbit.

1:19.4

In fact, his video call with Science quickly marked the first ever interview from the

1:23.8

Kupola, which features an amazing view.

1:27.4

If you want to see the video, which

1:28.9

trust me, you definitely do. Check out our show notes for a link to the whole interview on YouTube.

1:35.1

Matt, thanks so much for taking the time to chat with me today. I'm so excited to do so.

1:40.3

Yeah, so where exactly are you calling in from? Because I understand it's a pretty big deal and not just because you're in space right now. We're trying out something new today. We're on the International Space Station, of course, but we're in the cupola, which is one of the astronauts' favorite places to hang out. It's a seven-windowed environment on the bottom of the space station. So when you see us, we kind of look upside down look upside down relative to Earth, but that's how we come in. Our head is going down towards the Earth. And we get to look out and see our beautiful Earth through these seven windows. In the view right now, you're seeing four of those windows. And as we go through this conversation, we get to see a dynamic event, which is sunset. So I can take days and days to describe it, which is one of the reasons that drives me to do so much photography because just try and capture what we see. But super excited to come to you from the cupola today. Awesome. Yeah. And I understand it took some special equipment, some new window filters to make this possible. Could you tell me more about why that is? Oh, absolutely. It's incredibly bright. In fact, right now, as we're going through sunset, if you're watching a video, the sun is coming up on the right-hand side of my face. It's really bright as we're getting close to sunset. And through the course of our conversation today, we'll go from a full day to full night, and it will see the darkness, the

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