Updated 9 June – scroll down for video
These images of the International Space Station, the docked ATV-2 Johannes Kepler and the docked Space Shuttle Endeavour, flying at an altitude of approximately 220 miles, were taken by ESA astronaut and Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 following its undocking on 23 May 2011 (USA time). They are the first-ever images of a space shuttle docked to the International Space Station. Onboard the Soyuz were Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 27 commander Dmitry Kondratyev; Nespoli; and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman. Coleman and Nespoli were both flight engineers. The three landed in Kazakhstan later that day, completing 159 days in space.
More images via NASA here and also here. Also, beautiful view of the shuttle here.
And all images in a slide show, courtesy of the ESA Flickr channel:
And finally, here’s the video, courtesy NASA:
Discussion: one comment
Everytime the ISS comes by here I have to pinch my arm and realize it’s human made and that there are humans in that little diamond floating in the nightly sky.
These pictures and video on https://go.nasa.gov/fmToTV show once more what man is capable of – the graceful but calculated floating of such a big construction somewhere out there. Wow. Goosebumps.
Well done @ Paolo , you’ve got a great eye (and a steady hand) 🙂