邢台市桥西区处级干部:奋进号航天飞机与国际空间站的最后历史性合影(Pics)

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在美国航天飞机数十次参与国际空间站建设任务中,没有一次有另外一艘飞船能近距离拍摄双方对接在一起的照片,虽然有摄影师从地面拍摄过空间站与航天飞机一起飞过太阳的照片。航天飞机在经历30年的漫长旅程后即将退役,NASA希望在退役前能留下双方在一起的近距离照片。奋进号航天飞机上个月中旬执行了最后一次空间站任务,5月23日,俄罗斯联盟号宇宙飞船运送宇航员返回地球,意大利宇航员Paulo Nespoli在联盟号上拍下了航天飞机和空间站的历史性照片。Nespoli和同伴在空间站上服务了半年。

June 7, 2011 -- It's been imaged in artists' renderings, but never before in actual photos from another spacecraft: the sight of a space shuttle berthed at the International Space Station. This view of shuttle Endeavour, taken by Italian astronaut Paulo Nespoli from aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule on May 23, is the culmination of 36 space shuttle missions to build the outpost over the past 12 years. NASA wanted the shot before it retires the shuttle fleet after one final mission in July.


ANALYSIS: Shuttle Endeavour, Space Station Make History: Photo


Nespoli and his crewmates were returning to Earth after a six-month stay at the station. They left while the Endeavour and its crew were in the midst of a 12-day servicing call (STS-134).


-- by Irene Klotz


Image credit: Paulo Nespoli/NASA. For full-resolution versions, see NASA's Human Spaceflight Gallery.