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Gorgeous Image of Endeavour with Earth in the Backdrop

i37.tinypic.com — A rare image of NASA's shuttle endeavour orbiting around our beautiful planet earth.Space Shuttle Endeavour is one of the three currently operational spacecraft in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States.The other two are Discovery and Atlantis. Endeavour was the fifth and final NASA space shuttle to be built.

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  • vroom101, on 08/25/2008, -2/+138High-resolution version of the photo: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle ... (spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-118/hires/iss015e22574.jpg)

    NASA caption: ISS015-E-22574 (15 August 2007) --- Backdropped by a blue and white Earth and the blackness of space, Space Shuttle Endeavour, docked to the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station, is featured in this image photographed by a crewmember during the STS-118 mission's third planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA). The shuttle's Canadian-built Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robotic arm and station's Canadarm2 are also featured in the scene. The SPACEHAB pressurized logistics module is visible in Endeavour's payload bay.

    Via: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle ... (spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-118/html/iss015e22574.html)
  • ch28kid, on 08/25/2008, -2/+64Made in Canada, nice.
  • RogerStrong, on 08/25/2008, -1/+61Maneuvering thrusters.
  • Mingk, on 08/25/2008, -2/+45Canadian parts... American parts... ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!
  • arcooke, on 08/25/2008, -3/+45Ram-air intake, of course.
  • Pedestrian101, on 08/25/2008, -0/+40We used to spend 5% of our national budget on this stuff, what the hell happened?
  • IanPR, on 08/25/2008, -0/+31Canadarm FTW
  • mooninite, on 08/25/2008, -0/+25Thanks. I'm sick of seeing all these space pictures in a 600x600 pixel ratio. I know they always take pictures with 10+ megapixel cameras. Seeing them in such low-res media is so distasteful.
  • mksslagle, on 08/25/2008, -1/+21Did anyone even notice the space walker in the top of the photo?
  • kigabit, on 08/25/2008, -0/+18You did.
  • kigabit, on 08/25/2008, -0/+15Too-technically, a space faller...
  • ltchimpo, on 08/25/2008, -9/+24Do the photon torpedoes get shot out of those holes on the nose? Seriously, what're those for- wikipedia doesn't tell me?
  • TheDHC, on 08/25/2008, -0/+15Yet it is one of the most sophisticated robotic arms ever made, and it plays an intergral role in most ISS missions. Read up on it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Manipulator_Sy ...

    Or just stay ignorant, you seem to be very good at it.
  • TheAngryMob, on 08/25/2008, -0/+15The technical name is "Reaction Control System" or RCS.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_control_syst ...

    The one's you're referring to basically allow the shuttle to move backwards in space.
  • ltethe, on 08/25/2008, -0/+14Moron.

    You.

    ISS, other spacewalkers...

    *sigh*

    Open up your palm, place your face in it.
    Thatta boy.
  • maximilen, on 08/25/2008, -0/+12Imagine the astonauts looking the other way too -- into space -- and seeing a pure black backdrop for all the stars in the milky way and planets. Must be breathtaking in clarity.
  • WELLDOITLIVE, on 08/25/2008, -0/+11Vroom, you are the man. You always post awesome ***** like this better than the original submission.
  • diggenerate, on 08/25/2008, -1/+12we don't have any money left.
  • mediaspree, on 08/25/2008, -1/+12And that my liege is how we know the earth to be banana shaped.
  • TheDHC, on 08/25/2008, -2/+13What is your logic for doing that? are you 12?
  • fadetoone, on 08/25/2008, -0/+10Is it really "rare" if it's on the internet?
  • MrRobotoSki, on 08/25/2008, -1/+10Not putting as much money into the space program as they used too huh? That shuttle looks old and raggedy!
  • GregFD3S, on 08/25/2008, -0/+9Thanks for the new wallpaper.
  • IphtashuFitz, on 08/25/2008, -0/+9Man that's got to be one hell of an amazing experience to be up there like that.
  • RogerStrong, on 08/25/2008, -0/+9They're thick, made in several layers, to withstand a hit by small space debris.

    But they only have to withstand the less-than-one-atmosphere of pressure inside the Shuttle. Less than 15 pounds per square inch. A DSV submarine needs to withstand up to 8 tons per square inch.
  • inactive, on 08/25/2008, -2/+11Don't reply to the first comment just to make your comment higher.
  • mksslagle, on 08/25/2008, -0/+9Just the opposite of a sub. The pressure is on the inside trying to get out, verses a sub where the pressure is on the outside trying to get in.
  • damack, on 08/25/2008, -3/+12Oh wow thats mind blowing.. god it looks like something out of a sci-fi movie it's breath taking!
  • JRHodes88, on 08/25/2008, -4/+12WOW...the space shuttle is so old and ***** looking
  • rushiku, on 08/25/2008, -0/+8Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?

    Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Well, it was built for space travel, so anywhere between zero and one.
  • dibby1, on 08/25/2008, -2/+10.....cuz I'd miss you baby, and I don't wanna miss a thing.....
  • shutaro, on 08/25/2008, -4/+11Those are the laser cannons.
  • arjie, on 08/25/2008, -1/+8Human beings: We're awesome. My god man, the things we can do. And the awesome planet we have. Awe-inspiring.
  • NJank, on 08/25/2008, -3/+10We spent 5% of our national budget on this stuff.
  • mcphatty, on 08/25/2008, -1/+7i wish i could digg you up even more
  • thesonofdarwin, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6That's Mother Earth, you freudian freak.
  • Br3ach, on 08/25/2008, -9/+15The Bush Administration did
  • WELLDOITLIVE, on 08/25/2008, -2/+8You want to pretend that the U.S. built the arm or something? Why?
  • RogerStrong, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6That was a knee-jerk reaction to Soviet first - first satellite, first man in space, etc.

    Once the Gemini program got underway in the early 1960s - with long duration flights, rendezvous and docking, etc. - the US was demonstrably ahead and funding was chopped.

    Saturn V production was capped even before the first moon landing. The US space program coasted through the moon landings with what hardware was in the pipeline.

    Also, public interest disappeared. (Perhaps NASA made space flight seem too routine.) By the third landing they couldn't even get air time on TV. (Until something went wrong and the astronauts were in danger.) No public interest means no demand for Congress to fund it.
  • RogerStrong, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6Try 0.5%.

    Less than that actually. NASA gets 0.6% percent of the national budget, but much of that is spend on the "Aviation" side.

    And since politicians get to tack riders onto the NASA budget, the space station budget funds everything from road building in Alaska to fisheries research on the east coast.
  • NJank, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6or scary as ***** when you look out there and realize one wrong move and the pure black backdrop becomes home.
  • mksslagle, on 08/25/2008, -1/+7Technically a space floater...
  • lulzitsadigg, on 08/25/2008, -1/+7Canada has been promoted from America's hat to America's robotic arm.
  • humperdeath, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5Wait a minute, if that's the space shuttle, and the Earth is behind it, then who's taking that picture? Hah!. I got ya, proof that the space shuttle is fake! /troll
  • geodebug, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5thanks - new background!
  • mksslagle, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5Thank you for the link Vroom101, good info.
  • basichuman, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5Your comment makes me wonder...
  • RogerStrong, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4Thanks!
  • helmsb, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4boomdiada, boomdiada, boomdiada!
  • Whackly, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4Oedipus, you cheeky bastard.
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