06-08-2011, 12:35 PM
NASA has released the first-ever images of a space shuttle linked to the International Space Station taken from a departing spaceship.
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli took the photos two weeks ago from inside a Russian Soyuz capsule soon after he left the space station for the trip back to Earth.
The shuttle Endeavour is pictured attached to the bow of the space station and was captured by the capsule as it orbited at 17,000mph at 220 miles above Earth.
click for awesome pics~~little shuttle hanging off the Space Station...cool!
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli took the photos two weeks ago from inside a Russian Soyuz capsule soon after he left the space station for the trip back to Earth.
The shuttle Endeavour is pictured attached to the bow of the space station and was captured by the capsule as it orbited at 17,000mph at 220 miles above Earth.
click for awesome pics~~little shuttle hanging off the Space Station...cool!