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NASA astronaut mourns Beirut blast victims from space – Space.com
See Chris Cassidy’s view from orbit.
A week after two massive explosions echoed through Beirut, Lebanon
, a NASA astronaut shared his view of the capital city from orbit and his best wishes for its residents.
The city experienced two powerful blasts at its port in the local evening of Aug. 4, killing at least 171 people and injuring thousands, according to the Associated Press
. Nearly 3,000 tons (2.5 million kilograms) of a chemical called ammonium nitrate stored at the port may have caused the incident. On Tuesday (Aug. 11), N…
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