Ultimate Photo of ISS and Shuttle from another craft

[Vartok]

This is one outstanding photo of the International Space Station with Endeavour attached.  Quite rare as usually the photo is taken from the station or the arm, rarely from another craft.  Outstanding!

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http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/07/6805662-ultimate-space-portrait-unveiled?ocid=twitter

[turtlesrock]

8D it's all sideways!!!!! 8D

[davekill]

stunning!

The station really has a sense of scale while docked to the Shuttle.

[Feathers]

What was that taken from? A shuttlepod?

It's interesting (and slightly worrying) that the solar panels seem to be largely sitting in each others shadows. What does that do for power generation, I wonder?

[Bromptonboy]

What was that taken from? A shuttlepod?

It's interesting (and slightly worrying) that the solar panels seem to be largely sitting in each others shadows. What does that do for power generation, I wonder?

As long as the Dilithium Crystals are chugging away...they should be fine...
;)

[turtlesrock]

What was that taken from? A shuttlepod?

It's interesting (and slightly worrying) that the solar panels seem to be largely sitting in each others shadows. What does that do for power generation, I wonder?

As long as the Dilithium Crystals are chugging away...they should be fine...
;)

:D ...we think ;)

[Rico]

That is just an amazing and awesome picture.  Need to embed it here too.

[moyer777]

very cool picture, now my desktop

[Vartok]

Taken from a Soyuz leaving to go home, as the article related

NASA has released unprecedented views of the International Space Station linked up with the shuttle Endeavour, as seen from a departing Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli captured the images during just a few minutes on May 23, but it took more than two weeks for the views to follow a tortuous route to the Web.

Nespoli and his two crewmates — Russia's Dmitry Kondratyev and NASA's Catherine "Cady" Coleman — just happened to be heading back to Earth while Endeavour and its crew were visiting the station, which set up a golden opportunity for the kinds of pictures that had never been taken before. The images show the shuttle and station from a distance of about 600 feet (200 meters), with Earth's curving disk in the background.

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glad you enjoyed!  it looks so fragile though, one alien ship blast and it'd be history.

[WillEagle]

That is really cool!!!!!! So if the shuttle program is done how are they going to get up there...beam!!

[Vartok]

Shamefully we are going to pay for rides on the Russian Salyut rockets until our next commercial rocket is ready in a couple of years.   :(

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[WillEagle]

Really!! So we have to buy tickets!!! At least we get along well enoght to do that. And speaking of the picture again I thought the station would have been bigger. Still an awesome photo!