Die Silhouette des Space-Shuttle-Unternehmens zeichnet sich vor dem Horizont der Erde ab, als es sich der Internationalen Raumstation zum Andocken während der STS-130-Mission nähert. Von einem Besatzungsmitglied der Expedition 22 aus dem Orbit fotografiert.

The colored band highlights distinct layers of Earth’s atmosphere, including the troposphere (orange) and stratosphere (white)This photo was taken during the STS-130 mission in February 2010

Endeavour was built to replace the Challenger, and was in service between 1992 and 2011.

Courtesy to r/ArchiveOfHumanity — originally shared there, thought this sub would appreciate it too.

Cool photo i just recently been made aware of a particular website that tracks the space station and Satellites because I wanted to see the path of that one satellite that crashed back to earth.

The astronauts on board get to see amazing sunsets.