Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together

[Playinghardball]

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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1. No sex threads!

Awesome, really.

[BrotherIvan]

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. Amazing.....

A spectacular picture! I really wish we still had the shuttle program or something similar. I miss it...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

5. Ahhh..but exciting things are on the way!

[Fred Sanders]

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]

6. I've always wondered why they have those Twix Bars attached to them ??

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. Chocolate provides energy. n/t

[BlueJazz]

8. Of course, plus I got the energy source wrong. They're Kit-Kat bars.