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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 two weeks ago, 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.
The next and last
launch of a US space shuttle
is scheduled for early July.
Today's test flight:
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