Rare Perspectives in Space
A view of the US Space Shuttle Atlantis and the Russian Space Station Mir during STS-71 as seen by the crew of Mir in Soyuz TM-21. They temporarily undocked the Soyuz spacecraft from the cluster of Mir elements to perform a brief fly-around.
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The Apollo 11 lunar module, the Moon, and the Earth. A view of the Apollo 11 lunar module "Eagle" as it returned from the surface of the Moon to dock with the command module "Columbia".
2 comments:
Never realized how big the Shuttle was compared to the Mir.
Yes, it is American.
Here is a size comparison of the Space Shuttle and the Soyuz capsule, both used to bring crew to the ISS. The Shuttle can, of course, bring a much larger mass to the ISS.
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