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Editor’s Note: Too pretty not to share! Backdropped by Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS-131 crew member on space shuttle Discovery after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 7:52 a.m. (CDT) [...]
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Editor’s note: the ultimate "room with a view!" This is a high angle view showing the Cupola, backdropped against the darkness of space and Earth’s horizon, and some components of the International Space Station. In some of the images in this series, faces of several of the Atlantis STS-135 and Expediton 28 crewmembers can be [...]
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Backdropped by Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, a portion of the International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 20 crew member aboard the station. Read full caption: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-20/html/… More about the Crew Earth Observation experiment aboard the International Space Station: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/CE… More about space station science: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html By: [...]
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STS-118 Day 12 www.nasa.gov/images/content/187209main_s118e09416.jpg S118-E-09418 (19 Aug. 2007) — Backdropped by a blue and white Earth, the International Space Station moves away from Space Shuttle Endeavour. Earlier the STS-118 and Expedition 15 crews concluded nearly nine days of cooperative work onboard the shuttle and station. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 6:56 a.m. (CDT) [...]
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(High-rez) Backdropped by Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation. Earlier the STS-128 and Expedition 20 crew concluded nine days of cooperative work onboard the shuttle and station. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 2:26 p.m. [...]
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Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth’s horizon, the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis move farther apart at the end of STS-117′s mission, during which the shuttle and station crews concluded about eight days of cooperative work. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 10:42 a.m. EDT on June 19, 2007. STS-117 [...]
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