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Expedition 70 crew members Jeanette Epps, Tracy Dyson, Michael Barratt, Loral O'Hara and Oleg Kononenko model eclipse glasses ahead of the April 8 total solar eclipse over North AmericaAs a total solar eclipse crosses North America on Monday , seven of the 13 people currently in space will
Barratt, along with his NASA astronaut crewmates Matthew Dominick, Jennette Epps and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Alexander Grebenkin will have three chances to see the solar eclipse as the space station's orbit takes them close to — but not into — the path of totality.
Three other people are and will be in space on Monday, though they will be in the wrong place to witness the eclipse. Terry Virts and his Expedition 42 crewmates witnessed the moon's shadow as a large, dark spot moving over Earth on March 20, 2015. Virts called the experience"surreal."Like Virts, who is heading to Fort Worth to be within the path of totality, more than two dozen former and current astronauts are traveling to locations from Texas to New York to be present for the eclipse and to help the public enjoy the occasion.
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