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Endeavour Lifts Off on its Last Mission

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Space shuttle Endeavour is officially on its way to the International Space Station on its STS-134 mission and final flight.

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ISS International Space Station evolution

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Last week one of NASA’s images of the day was the international space station(ISS) as seen from a german remote sensing satellite (#1), so I decided to find out more about the ISS.
In this set you can see the evolution of the International Space Station through some of the best shuttle mission imagery that [...]

On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 195 kilometers, or 122 miles, and at a relative speed of 34,540 kilometers per hour, or more than 22,000 mph.
On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 195 kilometers, or 122 miles, and at a relative speed of 34,540 kilometers per hour, or more than 22,000 mph. Credit DLR
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