Gliding through the outer Solar System, in 1989 the Voyager 2 spacecraft looked toward the Sun to find this view of most distant planet Neptune and its moon Triton together in a crescent phase. The elegant image of ice-giant planet and largest moon was taken from behind just after Voyager's closest approach. It could not have been taken from Earth because the most distant planet never shows a crescent phase to sunward eyes. Heading for the heliopause and beyond, the spacecraft's parting vantage point also robs Neptune of its familiar blue hue.
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| Name | Craft |
|---|---|
| Sergey Prokopyev | ISS |
| Dmitry Petelin | ISS |
| Frank Rubio | ISS |
| Fei Junlong | Shenzhou 15 |
| Deng Qingming | Shenzhou 15 |
| Zhang Lu | Shenzhou 15 |
| Stephen Bowen | ISS |
| Warren Hoburg | ISS |
| Sultan Alneyadi | ISS |
| Andrey Fedyaev | ISS |