iss023e024682
January 24, 2012
ISS023-E-024682 (17 April 2010) --- The space shuttle Discovery flies with its payload bay facing Earth so that the astronauts and cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station could survey and photograph it following the relative separation of the two spacecraft on April 17.
Topics:
Environment, Space Shuttle program, Human spaceflight, Manned spacecraft, Space Shuttle Orbiter, Shuttle–Mir Program, International Space Station, Space Shuttle
