Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together

NASA ^ | June 08, 2011 | (see photo credit)

[SunkenCiv]

[Credit: NASA] 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 two weeks ago, 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. The next and last launch of a US space shuttle is scheduled for early July.

[Ann Archy]

OMG!!!! How amazing!!!

[Colonel_Flagg]

I guess Constitution-class starship crews need a place to blow off steam, too.

That's why Deep Space Station K7 was invented. :D

[markman46]

check out the vidio

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?collection_id=14483&media_id=93985151&module=homepage

[Gene Eric]

>> How was this picture taken?

By the under-appreciated cameraman of course.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Dude ! The Enterprise ain’t THAT tiny.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

:”)

[Levante]

:)