A Space Station Meets its Destiny
Explanation:
The International Space Station (ISS) had a date
with Destiny earlier this month.
More specifically, the
crew of the
Space Shuttle Atlantis
installed the science laboratory named
Destiny on the
ISS.
Destiny,
pictured here, will also serve as a control center for the Earth
orbiting space station.
To help install this module, space shuttle
astronauts conducted the
100th space walk by an American,
an event that occurred nearly 40 years after
Ed White first ventured outside of his Gemini 4 spacecraft.
The space shuttle's crew took the
above picture after their
spacecraft had undocked from the space station.
Over two hundred kilometers below lies the
Rio Negro region of
Argentina.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings,
and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
