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The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the Moon at roughly five miles per second, Saturday, March 16, 2019 from Chantilly, Va. Onboard are Expedition 59 Commander Oleg Kononenko and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Anne McClain, Nick Hague, and Christina Koch of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

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