In 2018 he retired from ESA after 27 years of service, and currently continues an important career as speaker all over the world. During all his space missions, Nespoli took more than half a million pictures. Two more missions followed in 20, this time long duration on Soyuz/ISS, for a grand total of 313 days in space. He trained in Houston and Moscow before being assigned to his first mission: STS-120 on Space Shuttle Discovery. Paolo Nespoli, a charismatic Italian aerospace engineer, joined the European Space Agency (ESA) in 1991 and was selected as astronaut in 1998. His work is held at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago and at the NASA Art Collection in Washington, DC. In 2017 he started the project Interior Space. He is the author of the acclaimed book Abandoned in Place: Preserving America's Space History, documenting deactivated and repurposed space launch and test facilities around the US. He retired in 2018 from the astronaut corps launching a career as an international public speaker.Ĭhicago-born photographer Roland Miller (born 1958) taught photography at Brevard Community College in Cocoa, Florida, for 14 years, where he visited many nearby NASA launch sites. In 2007 he flew on the Space Shuttle and then, in 2010 to 20, he flew again to the International Space Station with the Russian Soyuz. in Aerospace Engineering, then joined the European Space Agency spending time in Europe, the US and Russia. After a career in the military, he earned a M.Sc. Italian-born astronaut Paolo Nespoli (born 1957) spent 313 days in space. This book provides us with an eerie account of what will remain in the space after our passing. In 2024 the ISS will be abandoned in 2028 it will be destroyed. Walsh write in their essays, the ISS speaks not only of who we are and will be, but also of who we were. As internationally acclaimed scholars of space archaeology Alice Gorman and Justin St. In Interior Space, American photographer Roland Miller and Italian astronaut and photographer Paolo Nespoli offer an in-depth portrait of the ISS, creating amazing unpeopled images of the interior of the ISS for the first time. On November 2 2020, NASA celebrates the 20th anniversary of continuous human habitation in space of the International Space Station. Unseen images of the International Space Station, untenanted and eerie: the legacy of humanity's fragile foothold in space