ISS astronaut Reid Wiseman, a US Navy Commander from Maryland, tweeted that he had been "waiting to see" Ireland... and finally she came through yesterday.

Hello Ireland, been waiting to see you pic.twitter.com/MVI1SczDqn

— Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) June 16, 2014

Wiseman launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the ISS along with Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency late last month. 

They joined NASA astronaut and Commander Steven Swanson, and cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev on the ISS.

Wiseman also posted a picture showing clouds over the Atlantic with Ireland in the distance.

Wild clouds with Ireland on the horizon pic.twitter.com/3J1itCvkY4

— Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) June 16, 2014