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Our daily Shuttle magnificence!
US’s Atlantis docking with Russia’s Mir 1995
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Our daily Shuttle magnificence!
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Our daily Shuttle magnificence!
Shuttle Moon
As a gorgeous full Moon rose above the eastern horizon on February 7 2001, the Space Shuttle Atlantis streaked skyward towards an orbital rendezvous with the International Space Station. Watching from Orlando, Florida, about 60 miles west of the Kennedy Space Center launch site, photographer Tony DeVito captured this digital image, one of a series of pictures of the shuttle’s fiery climb. While foreground street lights flickered on and a clear evening sky grew dark, the shuttle’s path just grazed the bright lunar disk. On this mission, STS-98, Atlantis carried the U.S. Destiny laboratory module to be added to the expanding orbital outpost.
Image credit: Anthony DeVito
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Our daily Shuttle magnificence!
Top: Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with Mir on 4 July 1995. Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, who had arrive onboard Atlantis five days earlier, took Soyuz TM-21 for a fly-around photo survey prior to Atlantis undocking for her return to Earth. This was the first time a shuttle had docked with Mir.
Bottom: Two shots of the Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the ISS, as photographed by the departing Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft on 23 May 2011, during the STS-134 mission. (There are a lot more from this fly-around here)
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Our daily Shuttle magnificence!
5/21/1981: Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Test Firing
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Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope (And a little daily Shuttle magnificence as well!)
Hubble Space Telescope launched 23 years ago today.
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