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PHOTO GALLERY

Earth, you're a cosmos!

Popular yachting spots shot by the ISS astronauts

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The Bahamas. Photo: Scott Kelly

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The Red Sea. Photo: Scott Kelly

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Ambrym Island. New Hebrides Archipelago, part of the Vanuatu State. Photo: Sergey Ryazansky

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The Maldives. The Republic of Maldives - a chain of 20 atolls, consisting of 1192 coral islands. Photo: Sergey Ryazansky

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San Andrés y Prevención, Colombia. Photo: Sergey Ryazansky

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San Francisco. Photo: Scott Kelly

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Aldabra Island, Seychelles. Photo: Sergey Ryazansky.

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Bermuda. Photo: Tim Peake

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Ships pass through the Panama Canal. Photo: Tim Peake

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Gibraltar. Photo: Tim Peake

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Dubai. Photo: Tim Peake

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Luminous plankton off the coast of Patagonia. Photo: Tim Peake

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Ibiza. Photo: Tim Peake

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Easter Island, Chile. Photo: Sergey Ryazansky

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Sicily. Photo: Tim Peake

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Sydney. Photo: Tim Peake

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Coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. Photo: Scott Kelly

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Caribbean Sea. Photo: Scott Kelly

Image courtesy of: Tim Peake, ESA, Scott Kelly, NASA, Sergej Ryazansky, Roskosmos
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On April 12, Russia celebrated Cosmonautics Day: on this day 55 years ago, Yuri Gagarin made his first flight into space. ItBoat researched Facebook accounts of three International Space Station astronauts - Russian Sergei Ryazansky, Englishman Tim Peake and American Scott Kelly - and selected the most impressive shots of popular yacht spots of the planet, taken from about 430 km above the Earth.

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