But he has still found time to capture beautiful pictures.

“Flying in space and locating the objects around is not easy.

But Cupola has also turned an orbiting laboratory into a home.

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“It is amazing, because I find constantly something new.

Like the Nazca Lines in Peru.

I really would like to see those!”

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Once when working on an exercise machine, Paolo looked out the window and saw this atoll passing by.

Lightning during a thunderstorm over Brazil.

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