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The thin line of Earth’s atmosphere and the blackness of space are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA View original image/caption: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-24/html/… More about space station science: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html There’s a Flickr group about Space Station Science. Please feel welcome to join! www.flickr.com/groups/stationscience/ [...]
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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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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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(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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Earth’s horizon against the blackness of space is featured in this image, photographed by an Expedition 19 crewmember on the International Space Station. p.s. The Earth’s "limb" is refers to the area where the curve of the Earth meets the blackness of space. Read full caption: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-19/html/… More about the Crew Earth Observation experiment aboard [...]
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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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