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Time-elapsed photography captures space shuttle Discovery's path to orbit. Liftoff from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida was at 6:21 a.m. EDT April 5 on the STS-131 mission. - Credit: NASA/Ben Cooper

Note how the lines between day and night are exactly parallel and straight in this computer simulation. - facebook

Caldwell-Dyson, Skvortsov and Kornienko, currently aboard Soyuz TMA-18, will join the Expedition 23 crew when they dock to the International Space Station just before 1:30 a.m. EDT (05:30 UT) on Sunday. Image: Soyuz TMA-18 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi




The Expedition 23 Soyuz TMA-18 rollout at Baikonur. Image credits: S P Korolev RSC Energia. Larger image: http://space.gs/10/img/tma18.jpg

STS-131 and Expedition 23 crew members share a meal in the Unity node of the International Space Station while space shuttle Discovery remains docked with the station. Pictured are Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov, Expedition 23 commander; Mikhail Kornienko and Alexander Skvortsov, both Expedition 23 flight engineers; NASA astronauts Alan Poindexter, STS-131 commander; James P. Dutton Jr., STS-131 pilot; Clayton Anderson, STS-131 mission specialist; Tracy Caldwell Dyson and T.J. Creamer, both Expedition 23 flight engineers; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts Soichi Noguchi, Expedition 23 flight engineer; and Naoko Yamazaki, STS-131 mission specialist. - Credit: NASA

Space Shuttle Discovery is featured in this image photographed by an STS-131 crew member on the International Space Station. The Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module is visible in Discovery’s payload bay. - Credit: NASA

April 15: The Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module hovers over Discovery’s payload bay awaiting its placement there for the trip back home. - Credit: NASA

Space Shuttle Discovery flies around the International Space Station after undocking on April 17, 2010, during the STS-131 mission. Image credit: NASA.

The STS-107 crew on the ISS: (clockwise) Mission Specialist David Brown, Pilot William McCool, Payload Commander Michael Anderson, Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, Mission Specialist Laurel Clark, Commander Rick Husband, and Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla. Image credit: NASA

In the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the members of space shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 crew, dressed in formal attire, display their collective sense of humor for the traditional breakfast photo. - Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

An exhaust plume surrounds the mobile launcher platform on Launch Pad 39A as space shuttle Atlantis lifts off on the STS-132 mission at 2:20 p.m. EDT on May 14. - Credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Tom Farrar

Second mid-course correction burn is due in about 12 minutes' time. Atlantis now 31,000 feet from station, closing at about 16 feet per second, currently flying over China. Image (view from ISS): NASA TV

Nicholas Patrick during the first STS-130 spacewalk. Image credit: NASA