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Keyword: space shuttle
![Атлантис на дорожке 39A](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/02/10/0001226093/atlantis_sts122_800.preview.jpg)
8.02.2008
An intricate network of lighting plays across the 130 foot high Rotating Service Structure (RSS) in this dramatic night view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A. Seen here after rolling back before Thursday's shuttle launch, the RSS provides pre-launch access to the orbiter and its payload.
![Астро-1 на орбите](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/07/13/0001207229/astro1_sts35_big.preview.jpg)
19.02.1999
In December of 1990, the Space Shuttle Columbia carried an array of astronomical telescopes high above the Earth's obscuring atmosphere to observe the Universe at ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths. The telescopes, known...
![Космический корабль стыкуется со станцией "Мир"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/24/0001193295/atlantis_mir_big.preview.gif)
16.12.1995
Hundreds of kilometers above the Earth's surface, the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Space Station Mir. The photograph was taken by Nikolai Budarin from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on July 4, 1995.
![Вальц в космосе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/11/0001199032/spacewalz_sts51.preview.jpg)
26.09.1998
Astronaut Carl Walz waves at his colleagues from the aft end of the Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay. During this 1993 spacewalk, Walz evaluated tools, tethers, and a foot restraint designed for use in a weightless environment while orbiting Planet Earth.
![Спиральные вихри на планете Земля](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/17/0001192388/eddies_sts41g_big.preview.jpg)
20.10.1997
Can you identify this stellar nebula? How many light-years from Earth did you say? Looking like a twisting cloud of gas and dust between the stars this wispy nebulosity is actually close by - a spiral eddy formed near the North Atlantic Gulf Stream off the East coast of the US.
![Темное небо, яркое Солнце](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/05/17/0001190308/sunview_sts82_c1.preview.jpg)
17.05.2003
In low Earth orbit there is not enough atmosphere to diffuse and scatter sunlight, so shadows are black and the sky is dark - even when the Sun shines. The harsh lighting produced this dramatic...
![Выброс из двигателя космического челнока](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/24/0001179172/engine_sts51.preview.gif)
31.12.1995
The Space Shuttle Discovery's orbital maneuvering system (OMS) engine firing produced this dramatic flare as it cruised "upside down" in low Earth orbit. Discovery was named for a ship commanded by Captain James Cook RN, the 18th Century English astronomer and navigator.
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