NASA Unveils “Unique Portrait” of Endeavour and the ISS
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Recently NASA made headlines with an unprecedented series of images captured by a Soyuz capsule, showing the ISS and Endeavour docked. Below is one image from a series of nine images released so far. Click the image below to load the “full-size” image.
This image of the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour, flying at an altitude of approximately 220 miles, was taken by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 following its undocking on May 23, 2011. Image Credit: NASA/Paolo Nespoli
From the press release:
Newly-released portraits show the International Space Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex during the last decade. The pictures are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the station from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
On May 23, the Soyuz was carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Cady Coleman and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli back to Earth. Once their vehicle was about 600 feet from the station, Mission Control Moscow, outside the Russian capital, commanded the orbiting laboratory to rotate 130 degrees. This move allowed Nespoli to capture digital photographs and high definition video of shuttle Endeavour docked to the station.
The Soyuz landed in Kazakhstan and was taken to Moscow for routine post-landing analysis. NASA and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, then processed the imagery as part of the standard disposition of spacecraft cargo.
Additional images and high definition video are being processed and will be posted on NASA’s website.
To view the still images, visit: http://go.nasa.gov/stationportrait
Source:NASA/JSC Press Release
Ray Sanders is a Sci-Fi geek, astronomer and blogger. Currently researching variable stars at Arizona State University, he writes for Universe Today, The Planetary Society blog, and his own blog, Dear Astronomer
2012-12-04 08:06:11
Source: http://www.dearastronomer.com/2011/06/07/nasa-unveils-unique-portrait-of-endeavour-and-the-iss/
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