As bucket list items go, seeing a total solar eclipse from space might seem like a tall order.
Seeing one from Earth can be difficult enough. Just ask the millions of people in North America who not only traveled to be within the path of totality, but had to be fortunate enough to have cloudless skies.
But on Monday (April 8), Michael Barratt became one of only 30 people in history to see an eclipse from off the planet.
"I got a strange bucket list, and this is one of the things that's on it — to actually watch an eclipse shadow cross the Earth from space. So I'm ecstatic to see this box gets checked and just to see this amazing thing from up here," said Barratt in a televised NASA interview.
Barratt and his six Expedition 71 crewmates — fellow NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, Matthew Dominick and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Alexander Grebenkin — saw the eclipse from 260 miles high (420 kilometers) on the International Space Station.
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