Earth's atmosphere and a starry sky just off the port wing of the docked space shuttle…
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Docked One Last Time
Backdropped by a night time view of the Earth and the starry sky, the Space Shuttle…
Another View
A fish-eye lens attached to an electronic still camera was used to capture this image of…
Otherworldly Pas De Deux
With components of the International Space Station in the view, NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel (right) and…
Final Spacewalk for STS-134
NASA astronaut Michael Fincke worked outside the station during the fourth and final spacewalk of the…
Expedition 28 Crew Departs Star City
Expedition 28 crew members--Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa, left, Soyuz commander Sergei Volkov, center, and Flight Engineer…
Burning
Because of the absence of gravity, fuels burning in space behave very differently than they do…
Return to Earth
The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and…
Spacewalker
Astronaut Andrew Feustel reenters the space station after completing n 8-hour, 7-minute spacewalk at 10:12 a.m.…
Iceland’s Grimsvotn Volcano
On May 21, 2011, Iceland’s Grimsvotn Volcano erupted, sending an ash plume 12 miles (20 kilometers)…