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- Nov 21, 2008: Following a space-to-Earth press conference, transmited live by NASA Television, members of the ISS and Space Shuttle Endeavour crews posed for a group portrait on the orbital outpost. From left, bottom row, are astronaut Sandra Magnus, cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, and astronauts Gregory Chamitoff and Michael Fincke. From left, middle row, are astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Chris Ferguson and Eric Boe. From left, top row, are astronauts Steve Bowen, Heidi S. Piper and Donald Pettit. Photo Credit:NASA
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- Shuttle Docking: The Space Shuttle Discovery moves toward the ISS.
- Spacewalk: An astronaut is working in space on the Space Station
while flying at an altitude of 340 km in 90 minutes around the Earth
- Good Enough to Eat: Commander Steven Lindsey holds a tortilla as
he gets ready to eat a meal after working on the Space Station.
- Water Bubble: Astronaut L. Chiao watches a ball of water float (ISS)
- Exercise in Space: Astronauts exercise while in space to slow bone
and muscle loss. This will be very important on future trips to Mars.
- Plants in Space: These plants were grown by astronauts on the ISS.
- Dressing for Space: Astronaut Bill McArthur and Valery Tokarev (r)
pose with both a U.S. space suit (l) and a Russian space suit (right).
- Piggyback Shuttle: The Space Shuttle Endeavour rides piggyback on
the top of a 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft while being moved from the
landing place in California back to Cape Canaveral in Florida.
- NASA and the Moon: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will launch
by late 2008 and will orbit the moon for at least one year to collect
data to support returning people to the moon around the year 2020.
- Saturn: A total of 126 images taken by the Cassini spacecraft were
combined to create this close-up image of Saturn and its rings.
- Sep 12, 2006: Astronauts Joseph R. Tanner (left) and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, both STS-115 mission specialists, work in tandem during the mission's first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) while the Space Shuttle Atlantis was docked with the International Space Station.
- With its new Destiny laboratory contrasted over a blue and white Earth, the ISS was photographed by a crew member
aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis after separation fom the station. Photo Credit: NASA
- The ISS backdropped against black space photographed from the Discovery on March 18, 2001. Its standard
practice for the shuttle to make a final fly-around of the outpost following unlinking from it. Credit: NASA
- The International Space Station (ISS) backdropped against the Rio Negro, Argentina, following undocking.
The photo was taken on 16 February 2001 with a digital still camera. Photo Credit: NASA
- (19 Dec. 2006) Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the International Space Station moves away from Discovery. Earlier the two crews concluded eight days of cooperative work onboard the shuttle and space station. Photo: NASA
- (3 June 2008) Astronaut Ron Garan participates in a six-hour, 48-minutes spacewalk as construction and maintenance
continue on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: NASA (Watch the big eyes in the back...)
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- During the more than six hour spacewalk on the ISS the astronauts Ron Garan and Mike Fossum (out of frame) loosened restraints holding the Orbiter Boom Sensor System in its temporary stowage location on the space station's starboard truss, preparing the Kibo Japanese Pressurized Module for its installation to the space station. Photo Credit: NASA
- The STEREO spacecrafts observed on the sun this visually stunning prominence eruption on Sept. 29, 2008, in the 304 angstrom wavelength
of extreme UV light. Prominences are relatively cool clouds of gas suspended above the sun and controlled by magnetic forces. The prominence rose
and cascaded to the right over several hours, appearing something like a flag unfurling, as it broke apart and headed into space. The prominence
is composed of ionized Helium that is about 60,000 degrees Kelvin. Image Credit:NASA
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