skimage2.data.astronaut

skimage2.data.astronaut()

Color image of the astronaut Eileen Collins.

Photograph of Eileen Collins, an American astronaut. She was selected as an astronaut in 1992 and first piloted the space shuttle STS-63 in 1995. She retired in 2006 after spending a total of 38 days, 8 hours and 10 minutes in outer space.

This image was downloaded from the NASA Great Images database.

No known copyright restrictions, released into the public domain.

Returns:

astronaut(512, 512, 3) uint8 ndarray

Astronaut image.