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Space
Month in Space: June 2016
An astronaut returns to Earth, a rocket test in Utah, a stunning aurora and more of the best space pictures from June 2016.
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Smoke rises as a booster for the Space Launch System is tested in Promontory, Utah, on June 28. This was the last full-scale test for the booster before SLS's first uncrewed test flight with NASA's Orion spacecraft in late 2018, a key milestone on the agency's journey to Mars.
— Bill Ingalls / NASA
A full "strawberry" moon rises behind Glastonbury Tor as people gather to celebrate the summer solstice on June 20 in Somerset, England. The "strawberry" moon is the name given to a full moon in June by Native Americans because it marks the beginning of strawberry picking season.




The Soyuz TMA-19M capsule carrying NASA's Tim Kopra, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko descends beneath a parachute on June 18. The three-person crew from the International Space Station landed safely in the sun-drenched steppes of Kazakhstan.
— Shamil Zhumatov / Pool via AP
Tim Kopra of NASA is helped out of the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft just minutes after he and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and British astronaut Tim Peake landed in a remote area of Kazakhstan on June 18. Kopra, Peake, and Malenchenko are returning after six months aboard the International Space Station.
— Bill Ingalls / NASA




People enjoy a swing ride as the sun sets at an amusement park in Athens on June 29.
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