Unique pictures

Credit: NASA

Some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent for Star­ryCrit­ters. I just couldn’t resist tak­ing all the amaz­ing pic­tures of space shut­tle Endeav­our and Inter­na­tional Space Sta­tion by Expe­di­tion 27 crew mem­ber Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 fol­low­ing its undock­ing on May 23, 2011 (USA time). The pic­tures taken by Nespoli are the first taken of a shut­tle docked to the Inter­na­tional Space Sta­tion from the per­spec­tive of a Russ­ian Soyuz space­craft. Onboard the Soyuz were Russ­ian cos­mo­naut and Expe­di­tion 27 com­man­der Dmitry Kon­dratyev; Nespoli, a Euro­pean Space Agency astro­naut; 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.

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Check out the indi­vid­ual pic­tures here.