... A Shuttle Back Flip at the Space Station . ... Credit: ISS Expedition 11 Crew , STS-114 Crew , NASA Explanation: Last week, crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) watched carefully as the Space Shuttle Discovery did a planned but unusual back flip upon approach. Discovery Commander Eileen Collins guided the shuttle through the flip, which was about 200 meters from the ISS when the above picture was taken. ... Publications with keywords: Space Shuttle Discovery - ISS . ...

... 2011 March 1 . Discovery Visits the Space Station . Credit: Space Shuttle STS-133 Crew, Space Station Expedition 26 Crew, NASA . ... A space shuttle has docked. Five days ago, the space shuttle Discovery was launched to the International Space Station , carrying six crew members and the large Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module . Three days ago, as pictured above , the docked shuttle was prepared to be unloaded by the space stations Dextre robot and Canadarm2 . ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Originally Discovery had been set to launch on 1 November, but this was delayed when fatigue cracks were found in the structure of its External Tank. ... A little bit of trivia is that Discovery has actually made the only shuttle-era Christmas time flight to date, this was STS-103 ,€а a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. ...

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Return to Flight Space Shuttle Discovery launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center July 26, ending a two-and-a-half year wait for the historic Return to Flight mission. ... Astronaut Soichi Noguchi, representing Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Steve Robinson, STS-114 mission specialist, did three successful spacewalks at the International Space Station and Discovery transported tons of equipment and supplies to and from the station. ... Discovery was about 600 feet from the station. ...

SECOND CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES FIRST RUSSIAN VISITING CREW IMAGE VIDEO . ... EXPEDITION TWO (ISS-2) . CREW OF THE SECOND LONG-DURATION EXPRDITION . Launch: . ... Launch site: . Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. ... Landing site: . ... Flight duration: . ... ISS-2 Commander . ... ISS-2 Flight Engineer . NASA, USA . ... NASA picture . ... SEA LAUNCH | UNIVERSAL SPACE PLATFORM | ... LAUNCHERS | ... SITE MAP . Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...