Unique 'Portrait' Of Shuttle And International Space Station Released
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. Read more
Video highlights include pre-launch and launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft carrying cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev and NASA astronaut Ron Garan, plus post-launch interviews with NASA officials conducted at the launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut have begun a mission to the ISS aboard a Soyuz rocket that blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. See more
Two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut are to begin a mission to the ISS when their Soyuz rocket blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will join an American, an Italian and a Russian already on the space station. Source