Thomas Pesquet: Washington D.C., you can clearly see the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument and the park that connects them. Above that the White House! Ever since the film Independence Day and the speech by Bill Paxton, I too know that 4 July is a special day for my US friends!
It would have been a holiday on the Space Station in fact, but it falls on a Sunday this year so… it is just a normal Sunday but we’ll have traditional US food and flags and… no fireworks obviously. To celebrate, here are five major cities, we have all seen a film or two based in anyone of them! Happy 4th of July.
Washington. L’antre du pouvoir… y compris spatial : outre la Maison Blanche, on y trouve le siรจge de la NASA ? La NASA est un acteur incoutournable de l’ISS et en a construit, lancรฉ et assemblรฉ une grande partie, alors forcรฉment la fรชte nationale amรฉricaine du 4 juillet est incontournable ici ! En hommage ร nos amis de l’autre cรดtรฉs de l’Atlantique, voici un post avec *beaucoup* de photos, ร la hauteur de ce pays XXL. Voici donc quelques villes amรฉricaines iconiques – un point commun trรจs visible entre toutes, malgrรฉ leurs identitรฉs rรฉsolument diffรฉrentes : le plan quadrillรฉ so American. ?? ?
Credits: ESA/NASA-T. Pesquet larger image