Sunita Williams

On the second flight, we were doing a lot of science experiments, and we've got a really cool window called the cupola. It's a big, circular window with six panes around, sort of at angles so you can see the Earth, you can see the edge of the Earth, you can go out - look out into the universe. It's pretty spectacular.

American Astronaut

It's just this beautiful laboratory in space, and it's doing a lot of really cool things. So being up there and just being able to fly through that big station one more time and do some experiments while you're up there and get that view out of the cupola... priceless.

Cupolas are decorative and practical, often providing light or ventilation for buildings.

Architectural Feature

Cupolas can serve as a lookout point or to offer broad views from the top of a structure.

Viewing Point

Cupolas are more common in historical buildings and add character to modern buildings.

Historical Structures

In architecture, a cupola can be an ornate element within interiors, often painted or embellished.

Ceiling Decoration

Cupolas can symbolize religious or historical significance in buildings, especially in churches.

Cultural Symbol

Cupolas function as furnaces in industry, essential for melting metals like iron.

Industrial Usage

In foundry work, 'cupola' refers specifically to the furnace, not the architectural dome.

Technical Term

Understanding how a cupola furnace operates is important for those studying metallurgy or foundry.

Operational Detail

 I climb up, and there's this place, way in the back, that you climb up this wooden ladder. I pop up the top, and there's a cupola. A dome, one of these ten-foot domes. I'm looking out and I'm seeing the cops bashing students' heads, shooting tear gas, and watching students throwing bricks.

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 and an observation cupola for stunning 360-degree views of our world and beyond. Other critical components included platforms and trusses to support radiators that direct all the heat generated by the station's electronics into space

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 been up to the task of creating the cupola many people did not want the challenge but then against all odds this original man Filippo Brunelleschi the world's first architect cracked a hundred and twenty-five year old code

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