The International Space Station (ISS) and the Shuttle Endeavour 05/2011 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour...

The International Space Station (ISS) and the Shuttle Endeavour 05/2011 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour docked to the International Space Station (ISS) 05/2011 - View of the Space Shuttle Endeavour moored at the International Space Station, from the Soyuz TMA spaceship - 20 on 23 May 2011. This series of images shows for the first time a shuttle moored to the space station from a Russian Soyuz spaceship. This image of the International Space Station and the docked Space Shuttle Endeavour, flying at an altitude of approximately 220 miles, was taken by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA - 20 following its undocking on May 23, 2011 (USA time). The pictures are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the International Space Station from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Onboard the Soyuz were Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 27 commander Dmitry Kondratyev; Nespoli, a European Space Agency astronaut; and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman. Coleman and Nespoli were both flight engineers. The three landed in Kazakhstan later that day, completing 159 days in space