Room with a view
Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the international space station is seen from the space shuttle Discovery after undocking on March 25. With the addition of new solar panels, the station's appearance is close to what it will be when it is completed, leading some to call this view the "$100 billion photograph."
Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the international space station is seen from the space shuttle Discovery after undocking on March 25. With the addition of new solar panels, the station's appearance is close to what it will be when it is completed, leading some to call this view the "$100 billion photograph."
High-tech repairman
NASA astronaut Mike Massimino peers through a window of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Atlantis during the mission's fourth spacewalk on May 17. During the eight-hour, two-minute spacewalk, Massimino and astronaut Michael Good (background) continued repairs and improvements to the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. Such repairs should extend Hubble's life into the next decade.
Anti-gravity surfing
Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata demonstrates his "magic flying carpet" on May 15 aboard the international space station. The stunt was one of several offbeat challenges that Wakata tackled during a video program. For the flying-carpet trick, he put adhesive tape on the soles of his feet, then rode a white sheet in zero gravity.
Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata demonstrates his "magic flying carpet" on May 15 aboard the international space station. The stunt was one of several offbeat challenges that Wakata tackled during a video program. For the flying-carpet trick, he put adhesive tape on the soles of his feet, then rode a white sheet in zero gravity.
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