June 07, 2011

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa gov

Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly o humphries@nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-114

UNIQUE 'PORTRAIT' OF SHUTTLE AND INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION RELEASED

WASHINGTON -- Newly-released portraits show the International Space Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex during the last decade The pictures are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the station from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft

On May 23, the Soyuz was carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Cady Coleman and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli back to Earth Once their vehicle was about 600 feet from the station, Mission Control Moscow, outside the Russian capital, commanded the orbiting laboratory to rotate 130 degrees This move allowed Nespoli to capture digital photographs and high definition video of shuttle Endeavour docked to the station

The Soyuz landed in Kazakhstan and was taken to Moscow for routine post-landing analysis NASA and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, then processed the imagery as part of the standard disposition of spacecraft cargo

Additional images and high definition video are being processed and will be posted on NASA's website To view the still images, visit:

http://go nasa gov/stationportrait

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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