Shuttle Re-entry from ISS

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I’m surprised it took this long for this photo to become the Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This is a long-duration photo taken from the ISS showing the Atlantis space shuttle orbiter re-entering. Never again will such a photo be possible.

Be sure to check out the high rez, available from the NASA website.

Even Fingers is impressed.

 Posted by at 3:54 pm

  4 Responses to “Shuttle Re-entry from ISS”

  1. Deep Beam says:
    August 1, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    It really sucks that we had to wait 30 years for a picture like this – and there won’t be any more like it.

  2. Mika Takala says:
    August 2, 2011 at 2:34 am

    Its not a long duration(exposure) photo; the trail is the afterglow of the plasma.

  3. Pat Flannery says:
    August 2, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    Here’s one from the ISS of Endeavour turning during reentry:
    http://langa.posterous.com/shuttle-re-entry-seen-from-the-iss

  4. Pat Flannery says:
    August 2, 2011 at 11:09 pm

    I was trying to figure out what the Atlantis photo reminded me of; it looks like the scene in the movie “2010” where they show the Leonov as seen from a distance as it aerobrakes into Jupiter’s orbit by entering its outer atmosphere.

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