Awesome shot of the ISS and Endevour

[bartman]

Latest pic from APOD.
Seeing this just makes my jaw drop:jawdrop:!
The larger pic has so much detail!
BTW are they the stars in the background or artifacts?
Hope you enjoy too.....

Cheers
Bartman
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1106/shuttleiss_nasa_6048.jpg

[Ric]

What a beautiful shot.

I love seeing images like that.

[gary]

Hi Bart,

Thanks for the link.

That's what we refer to as 'Big E' Engineering. :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Great picture. Really got a sense of how huge this thing is. Looks like it's getty a bit messy too now. They need to tidy up all those cables. :P

[alistairsam]

thats amazing.

this picture really shows how the ISS was built and "placed" so to speak in the void of space in a 3 dimensional point, just flying about.

I wonder how often they use onboard thrusters to maintain its orbit. laws of physics at its best.

[alistairsam]

pages 40 through 44 show the ISS and shuttle at different angles taken from the soyuz while departing

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-27/inflight/ndxpage41.html

[bartman]

Just Imagine being in that Soyuz taking that shot!?!
If you ever have seen those massive dump trucks on a mine site and compare how many would fit on that pic..............
Here is a ( very quick,very bad ) pic I put together. Not sure if I got the ratios right ( I think the truck should have been a bit smaller).
Cheers
Bartman
Just had a quick look at dimensions for both vehicles.
ROUGHLY....
ss height 17m - truck 7m
ss length 37m - truck 37
ss width 23 - truck 9

so the ss is roughly 2.5 x the size of a Cat 797 haulpak

[bartman]

So true for both those quotes! How often do they re-fuel the thruster engines????


Thank you Alistair for that link, I was just about to go hunting for more of the Soyuz pics, after the post I just put up before this one:thumbsup:
Cheers
Bartman