SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS RECOGNIZE THE NATION’S INDEPENDENCE DAY

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 65 Flight Engineers Megan McArthur, Shane Kimbrough and Mark Vande Hei of NASA recorded a message on June 19 for the nation’s celebration of its 245th birthday from their orbital vantage point 252 miles above Earth. McArthur and Kimbrough launched to the station in April in a SpaceX Crew Dragon atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just two weeks after Vande Hei launched to the complex aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.