by APOD Robot » Sun Aug 31, 2014 4:12 am
Space 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.
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