” Wishing everybody in the USA a Happy 4th of July from the @Space_Station,” he tweeted, adding an American flag emoji to the message.
Astronaut Doug Hurley tweeted a picture of the American flag as seen from the International Spaceport Station (ISS) on Saturday, to commemorate the countrys independence and 4th of July holiday.
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Fox News James Rogers contributed to this report.
The objective marked the first time astronauts have released from American soil because the final Space Shuttle flight in 2011.
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When he offered the command to fire engines for the GEICO 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, Hurley likewise made headlines last month.
Hurley, a veteran of Space Shuttle objectives, docked into the Space Station in May and boarded the orbiting space lab following the eagerly-anticipated launch of the Demo-2 mission from Kennedy Space Center atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
