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

Science Quickly

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🗓️ 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 [email protected] 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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0:29.6	Scientific American, this is Mission Control Houston.
0:34.6	Station, this is Scientific American. How do you hear me?
0:41.4	A loud and clear. Welcome to the cupola on the space station.
0:48.1	For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman. For the next few days, we're doing something a little different. We're going to use this week to share reruns of three of our
0:53.0	favorite episodes from the past year.
0:55.7	First up, we've got to chat with a guy who just needs a little space.
0:59.7	Back in September, we rang at the International Space Station for a live video convo with Matthew Dominic.
1:05.9	At the time, he was serving as the commander and flight engineer of NASA's SpaceX-Cruate mission, and he spent
1:12.0	a lot of his downtime taking and sharing stunning photos, videos, and time lapses from orbit.
1:18.7	In fact, his video call with science quickly marked the first ever interview from the cupola,
1:23.9	which features an amazing view.
1:26.6	If you want to see the video, which trust me, you definitely do.
1:30.1	Check out our show notes for a link to the whole interview on YouTube.
1:34.2	Matt, thanks so much for taking the time to chat with me today.
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