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Monday, August 21, 2017, 4:55 PM

For at least one group of people the eclipse was out of this world.

Millions of people saw #Eclipse2017, but only six people saw the umbra, or the moon's shadow, over the United States from space today, the International Space Station posted on Twitter Monday afternoon.

An accompanying photo showed a dark spot breaking up white wisps on the Earths cloudy surface.

NASAs astronauts Randolph Bresnik, Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson were joined in watching the strange and majestic sight by Russias cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergei Ryazansky as well as Italys Paolo Nespoli.

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No words needed, Nespoli said.

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Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, used the occasion to remember his own experiences.

It occurred to me that I got to see quite a few solar eclipses. Every time we orbited into the shadow of the moon, he said over the weekend, adding that he was one of 24 lucky people to have such as sight.

Humans will do it again with the view of #Mars Eclipsing the Sun! he posted Monday.

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Space adventurers small viewing party 254 miles above the Earths surface on Monday was joined by millions of earthlings down below who watched the moon block out part or all of the sun.

Dubbed the Great American Eclipse, the phenomenons totality was seen in a path that cut from Oregon through South Carolina, with less spectacular results farther away.

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