Astronaut Installs Panoramic Space Window

This space job was almost complete. Floating just below the International Space Station , astronaut Nicholas Patrick put some finishing touches on the newly installed cupola space windows last week. Patrick was a mission specialist onboard the recently completed space shuttle Endeavor's STS-130 mission to the ISS. Pictured, Patrick floats near the outermost of seven windows on the new cupola of the just-installed Tranquility module . Patrick hovers about 340 kilometers over the Earth 's surface, well in front of the blue sky, blue water , and white clouds pictured far in the background. In the above image , covers on windows three and four were in place and clearly labelled. Images from inside the ISS's new panoramic cupola are now available .