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This luminous night view of the space shuttle orbiter Endeavour, docked with the International Space Station for a final time, was captured on May 28. Orbiting 350 kilometers above planet Earth, Endeavour's payload bay is lit up as it hurtles through Earth's shadow at 17,000 miles per hour. At the top of the frame, the jointed appendages of the station's robotic manipulator arm Dextre appear in silhouette. Motion during the long exposure produced streaks in the starry background and the city lights on the darkened planet below. Completing a 16 day mission, Endeavour made a final landing at Kennedy Space Center in the dark, early morning hours of June 1.

Explanation: How was this picture taken?

Usually, pictures of the shuttle, taken from space, are snapped from the space station. Commonly, pictures of the space station are snapped from the shuttle. How, then, can there be a picture of both the shuttle and the station together, taken from space? The answer is that during the Space Shuttle Endeavour's last trip to the International Space Station two weeks ago, a supply ship departed the station with astronauts that captured a series of rare views. The supply ship was the Russian Soyuz TMA-20 which landed in Kazakhstan later that day. The above spectacular image well captures the relative sizes of the station and docked shuttle. Far below, clouds of Earth are seen above a blue sea. The next and last launch of a US space shuttle is scheduled for early July

That pic is badass!

Wow, I feel old.
I have pics of the first shuttle on a 747 at Eglin AFB before it even went up.
That thing is friggin huge man!

Tharrell wrote:Wow, I feel old.

Were all old..... heres an old photo from like 1975 I think. We watched the shuttle get trucked over to Edwards for the first glide tests......

Seems forever ago....

I located the pic from Eglin.
They stopped for fuel on the way to the cape.
Columbia 1979.

Here's a wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia

I've been real close to the transporter at the Edwards Open Houses...

Even NASA has a sense of humor....

At the Shuttle mounting pylons, in that obvious black "Stencil" font that the gov uses.... it reads:


INSTALL SHUTTLE HERE

BLACK SIDE : DOWN

LEFTY LOOSEY / RIGHTY TIGHTY


Its too fukin funny!!!

Thats a photo chop.... it dosent look like that.

I had orders for Edwards in 1980 but my Dad was killed and I decided to get out and run the family business.
I was still into the bikes at the time and was looking forward to the wide open spaces.
Plus, if I'm not mistaken I believe they had a track on the base at the time.
A lot of kool stuff happens at Edwards.