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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpace Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together
Explanation: How was this picture taken? Usually, pictures of the shuttle, taken from space, are snapped from the space station. Commonly, pictures of the space station are snapped from the shuttle. How, then, can there be a picture of both the shuttle and the station together, taken from space? The answer is that during the Space Shuttle Endeavour's last trip to the International Space Station in 2011 May, a supply ship departed the station with astronauts that captured a series of rare views. The supply ship was the Russian Soyuz TMA-20 which landed in Kazakhstan later that day. The above spectacular image well captures the relative sizes of the station and docked shuttle. Far below, clouds of Earth are seen above a blue sea.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140831.html
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Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Sep 2014
OP
We are still along way from any kind of real space station even resembling the one Kubrick
Fred Sanders
Sep 2014
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tridim
(45,358 posts)1. No sex threads!
Awesome, really.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)2. I wish we gave half as much money to NASA as to the Pentagon
Look at the amazing things they can do. But sadly, even those programs have shifted to weapons technology.
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)3. Amazing.....
A spectacular picture! I really wish we still had the shuttle program or something similar. I miss it...
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)5. Ahhh..but exciting things are on the way!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)4. We are still along way from any kind of real space station even resembling the one Kubrick
thought we would have by 2001.
If only America and Russia had not gone off on their War Odysseys. Stanley never saw that coming.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)6. I've always wondered why they have those Twix Bars attached to them ??
A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)7. Chocolate provides energy. n/t
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)8. Of course, plus I got the energy source wrong. They're Kit-Kat bars.