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STS110-E-5541 (13 April 2002) --- Astronaut Lee M.E. Morin carries an affixed 35mm camera to record work which is being performed 240 miles above Earth on the International Space Station (ISS). Astronaut Jerry L. Ross, Morin's working colleague on the space walk, is out of frame. The duo completed the structural attachment of the truss--the newest component of the orbital outpost, mating two large tripod legs of the 13 ?-ton structure to the station?s main laboratory during a 7-hour, 30-minute spacewalk. The station will ultimately span some 350 feet from end to end, slightly longer than a football field. The work of the two mission specialists complemented that of the previous day by astronauts Steven L. Smith and Rex J. Walheim.
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STS110-E-5510 (13 April 2002) --- Some 240 miles above the blue and white Earth, astronaut Jerry L. Ross works on the International Space Station. During the second day of four (non-consecutive) days of scheduled spacewalks, astronauts Ross and Lee M.E. Morin (out of frame) completed the structural attachment of the newest component of the orbital outpost, mating two large tripod legs of a 13 ?-ton truss to the station?s main laboratory during a 7-hour, 30-minute spacewalk. The station will ultimately span some 350 feet from end to end, slightly longer than a football field. The work of the two mission specialists complemented that of the previous day by astronauts Steven L. Smith and Rex J. Walheim.
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STS110-E-5616 (14 April 2002) --- Astronauts Steven L. Smith (right) and Rex J. Walheim work on the S0 (S-zero) truss, newly installed on the International Space Station (ISS). STS-110's third session of extravehicular activity (EVA)--the second for this duo--lasted 6 hours and 20 minutes. The two released locking bolts on the first space railcar during a portion of their space walk and rewired the station's robotic arm (out of frame) during another portion of the EVA. Part of the Destiny laboratory and a glimpse of Earth's horizon are seen in the lower part of this digital image.
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STS110-E-5337 (11 April 2002) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth?s horizon, portions of the International Space Station?s (ISS) Canadarm2 and the Space Shuttle Atlantis? Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robotic arm were photographed by a STS-110 crewmember with a digital still camera.
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STS110-E-5172 (11 April 2002) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth?s horizon, the S0 (S-Zero) Truss is moved from the Space Shuttle Atlantis? cargo bay. Astronauts Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 mission specialist, and Daniel W. Bursch, Expedition Four flight engineer, used the International Space Station?s (ISS) Canadarm2 to lift the S0 Truss out of the orbiter?s payload bay and install it onto the temporary claw fixture on the Destiny laboratory. The image was taken with a digital still camera.
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STS110-E-5170 (11 April 2002) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth?s horizon, the S0 (S-Zero) Truss is moved from the Space Shuttle Atlantis? cargo bay. Astronauts Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 mission specialist, and Daniel W. Bursch, Expedition Four flight engineer, used the International Space Station?s (ISS) Canadarm2 to lift the S0 Truss out of the orbiter?s payload bay and install it onto the temporary claw fixture on the Destiny laboratory. The image was taken with a digital still camera.
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STS110-E-5173 (11 April 2002) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth?s horizon, the S0 (S-Zero) Truss is moved from the Space Shuttle Atlantis? cargo bay. Astronauts Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 mission specialist, and Daniel W. Bursch, Expedition Four flight engineer, used the International Space Station?s (ISS) Canadarm2 to lift the S0 Truss out of the orbiter?s payload bay and install it onto the temporary claw fixture on the Destiny laboratory. The image was taken with a digital still camera.
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STS110-E-5174 (11 April 2002) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth?s horizon, the S0 (S-Zero) Truss is moved from the Space Shuttle Atlantis? cargo bay. Astronauts Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 mission specialist, and Daniel W. Bursch, Expedition Four flight engineer, used the International Space Station?s (ISS) Canadarm2 to lift the S0 Truss out of the orbiter?s payload bay and install it onto the temporary claw fixture on the Destiny laboratory. The image was taken with a digital still camera.
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JSC2002-E-48899 (10 December 2002) --- Astronaut William S. (Bill) McArthur, Jr. (left), Expedition 9 mission commander and NASA ISS science officer, participates in an Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle Schools (EarthKAM) payload training session in the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF) in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Brion Au with Johnson Engineering assisted McArthur.
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JSC2002-E-48887 (10 December 2002) --- Astronaut Charles J. Camarda (left), backup Expedition Eight flight engineer, participates in an Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle Schools (EarthKAM) payload training session in the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF) in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Brion Au with Johnson Engineering assisted Camarda.
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JSC2002-E-48883 (10 December 2002) --- Astronaut Charles J. Camarda (left), backup Expedition Eight flight engineer, participates in an Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle Schools (EarthKAM) payload training session in the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF) in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Brion Au with Johnson Engineering assisted Camarda.
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JSC2002-E-28564 (19 July 2002) --- Astronauts William A. Oefelein (left) and Robert L. Curbeam, Jr., STS-116 pilot and mission specialist, respectively, participate in a simulation exercise in the system engineering simulator in the Avionics Systems Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). The facility includes moving scenes of full-sized International Space Station (ISS) components over a simulated Earth.
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JSC2002-E-25979 (21 June 2002) --- Astronaut Paul S. Lockhart, STS-111 pilot, speaks to a large crowd who showed up at Ellington Field's Hangar 990 to welcome home the STS-111 and Expedition Four crew members. At left background is NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe. JSC Director Jefferson D. Howell, Jr., is seated immediately to the right of the lectern. The four shuttle prime crew members returned to Earth earlier in the week after two weeks in space, but for the three station crew members, this was their first time in Houston since December of 2001, having spent well over six months in Earth orbit on board the International Space Station (ISS).
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JSC2002-E-09922 (22 March 2002) --- Astronauts Michael J. Bloomfield (striped shirt), STS-110 mission commander, and Ellen Ochoa (right), mission specialist, participate in a simulation exercise in the system engineering simulator at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). The facility includes moving scenes of full-sized International Space Station (ISS) components over a simulated Earth.
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JSC2002-E-03300 (28 January 2002) --- Soyuz 4 Flight Participant Mark Shuttleworth (white shirt), a South African businessman flying to the International Space Station (ISS) under a private commercial agreement with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (Rosaviakosmos), listens to briefing in the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center (MCC). The Soyuz 4 prime and backup crews have toured several other JSC facilities this week, with yet others scheduled. The prime crew members will launch in late April from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to deliver a fresh Soyuz spacecraft to the station for use as a lifeboat. After spending about a week aboard the outpost, they will return to Earth aboard the Soyuz spacecraft now attached to the station.
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JSC2002-E-03634 (30 January 2002) --- Backup Soyuz 4 commander Gennady Padalka, a Russian cosmonaut, listens to a briefing on communications while visiting the Space Station Training Facility (*SSTF) at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). The Soyuz 4 prime and backup crew members have been touring several other JSC facilities this week, with yet others scheduled. The prime crew members will launch in late April from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to deliver a fresh Soyuz spacecraft to the station for use as a lifeboat. After spending about a week aboard the outpost, they will return to Earth aboard the Soyuz spacecraft now attached to the station.
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JSC2002-E-03635 (30 January 2002) --- Soyuz 4 Flight Participant Mark Shuttleworth, a South African businessman flying to the International Space Station (ISS) under a private commercial agreement with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (Rosaviakosmos), listens to briefing in the Johnson Space Center's Space Station Training Facility (SSTF). The Soyuz 4 prime and backup crews have toured several other JSC facilities this week, with yet others scheduled. The prime crew members will launch in late April from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to deliver a fresh Soyuz spacecraft to the station for use as a lifeboat. After spending about a week aboard the outpost, they will return to Earth aboard the Soyuz spacecraft now attached to the station.
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2002-E-03301 (28 January 2002) --- Astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke (pointing) plays host for some Soyuz 4 taxi crew members who visited the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center on January 28. Soyuz 4 Flight Participant Mark Shuttleworth, a South African businessman flying to the International Space Station (ISS) under a private commercial agreement with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (Rosaviakosmos), is at right. Others pictured include interpreter Irina Yashkova and Russian training management representative Dennis Yadrentsev (left). The Soyuz 4 prime and backup crews have toured several other JSC facilities this week, with yet others scheduled. The prime crew members will launch in late April from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to deliver a fresh Soyuz spacecraft to the station for use as a lifeboat. After spending about a week aboard the outpost, they will return to Earth aboard the Soyuz spacecraft now attached to the station.
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JSC2002-E-03628 (30 January 2002) --- Soyuz 4 Flight Participant Mark Shuttleworth (second right), a South African businessman flying to the International Space Station (ISS) under a private commercial agreement with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (Rosaviakosmos), interfaces with communications systems during a familiarization tour of the Space Station Training Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Others pictured, from the left, are backup Soyuz 4 Commander Gennady Padalka, a Russian cosmonaut; Chris Benson, a United Space Alliance (USA) crew trainer; and backup Soyuz 4 Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko, a Russian cosmonaut. The Soyuz 4 crew has toured several other JSC facilities this week, with yet others scheduled. The crew members will launch in late April from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to deliver a fresh Soyuz spacecraft to the station for use as a lifeboat. After spending about a week aboard the outpost, they will return to Earth aboard the Soyuz spacecraft now attached to the station.
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JSC2002-E-03633 (30 January 2002) --- Soyuz 4 Flight Participant Mark Shuttleworth, a South African businessman flying to the International Space Station (ISS) under a private commercial agreement with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (Rosaviakosmos), listens to briefing in the Johnson Space Center's Space Station Training Facility (SSTF). The Soyuz 4 prime and backup crews have toured several other JSC facilities this week, with yet others scheduled. The prime crew members will launch in late April from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to deliver a fresh Soyuz spacecraft to the station for use as a lifeboat. After spending about a week aboard the outpost, they will return to Earth aboard the Soyuz.
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ISS006-E-10778 (18 December 2002) --- Cosmonaut Nikolai M. Budarin, Expedition Six flight engineer, views the topography of a point on Earth from a window in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Budarin represents Rosaviakosmos.
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ISS006-E-12714 (27 December 2002) --- Astronaut Kenneth D. Bowersox, Expedition Six mission commander, holds a still camera as he studies the topography of a point on Earth from the nadir window in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).
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ISS006-E-12694 (16 December 2002) --- Astronaut Kenneth D. Bowersox, Expedition Six mission commander, uses a still camera to photograph the topography of a point on Earth from the nadir window in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).
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ISS006-S-001 (March 2002) --- The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 6 crew patch depicts the station orbiting the Earth on its mission of international cooperation and scientific research. The Earth is placed in the center of the patch to emphasize that work conducted aboard this orbiting laboratory is intended to improve life on our home planet. The shape of the Space Station?s orbit symbolizes the role that experience gained from ISS will have on future exploration of our solar system and beyond. The American and Russian flags encircling the Earth represent the native countries of the Expedition 6 crew members, which are just two of the many participant countries contributing to the ISS and committed to the peaceful exploration of space. The NASA insignia design for International Space Station (ISS) missions is reserved for use by the crew members and for other official use as the NASA Administrator may authorize. Public availability has been approved only in the forms of illustrations by the various news media. When and if there is any change in this policy, which is not anticipated, the change will be publicly announced.
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ISS006-E-05064 (4 December 2002) --- The new crewmembers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were able to document a rare occurrence early into their tour on the outpost. The dark area near Earth's horizon at center frame is actually a shadow cast by the Moon during the total solar eclipse of Dec. 4, 2002. The shadow obscures an area of cloud cover. The station, with three Expedition Six crewmembers aboard, was over the Indian Ocean at the time of the eclipse. The out-of-focus object in the foreground is part of the frame for the viewing port.
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ISS006-E-05070 (4 December 2002) --- The new crewmembers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were able to document a rare occurrence early into their tour on the outpost. The dark area near Earth's horizon at center frame is actually a shadow cast by the Moon during the total solar eclipse of Dec. 4, 2002. The shadow obscures an area of cloud cover. The station, with three Expedition Six crewmembers aboard, was over the Indian Ocean at the time of the eclipse. The out-of-focus object in the foreground is part of the frame for the viewing port.
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ISS005-E-21786 (28 November 2002) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth?s horizon, astronaut John B. Herrington, STS-113 mission specialist, traverses along a truss on the International Space Station (ISS) during a session of extravehicular activity (EVA). The Canadarm2 / Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) is visible in bottom frame.
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ISS005-E-21775 (28 November 2002) --- Astronauts Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (left) and John B. Herrington, STS-113 mission specialists, work on the newly installed Port One (P1) truss on the International Space Station (ISS) during a session of extravehicular activity (EVA). The end effector of the Canadarm2 / Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) and Earth?s horizon are visible in right frame.
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ISS005-E-21771 (28 November 2002) --- Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, STS-113 mission specialist, works on the newly installed Port One (P1) truss on the International Space Station (ISS) during a session of extravehicular activity (EVA). The end effector of the Canadarm2 / Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) and Earth?s horizon are visible in right frame.
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ISS005-E-21543 (25 November 2002) --- Backdropped by a blue and white Earth, the Space Shuttle Endeavour approaches the International Space Station (ISS) during STS-113 rendezvous and docking operations. Docking occurred at 3:59 p.m. (CST) on November 25, 2002. The Port One (P1) truss, which was later to be attached to the station and outfitted during three spacewalks, can be seen in Endeavour's cargo bay.
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ISS005-E-21497 (25 November 2002) --- Backdropped by a blue and white Earth, the Space Shuttle Endeavour approaches the International Space Station (ISS) during STS-113 rendezvous and docking operations. Docking occurred at 3:59 p.m. (CST) on November 25, 2002. The Port One (P1) truss, which was later to be attached to the station and outfitted during three spacewalks, can be seen in Endeavour?s cargo bay.
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ISS005-E-19270 (1 November 2002) --- A Soyuz spacecraft approaches the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station (ISS) carrying the Soyuz 5 taxi crew, Commander Sergei Zalyotin, Belgian Flight Engineer Frank DeWinne, and Flight Engineer Yuri V. Lonchakov for an eight-day stay on the station. The new Soyuz TMA-1 vehicle was designed to accommodate larger or smaller crewmembers, and is equipped with upgraded computers, a new cockpit control panel and improved avionics. Zalyotin and Lonchakov represent Rosaviakosmos and DeWinne represents the European Space Agency (ESA). The blackness of space and Earth?s horizon provide the backdrop for the scene.
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ISS005-E-19258 (1 November 2002) --- A Soyuz spacecraft approaches the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station (ISS) carrying the Soyuz 5 taxi crew, Commander Sergei Zalyotin, Belgian Flight Engineer Frank DeWinne, and Flight Engineer Yuri V. Lonchakov for an eight-day stay on the station. The new Soyuz TMA-1 vehicle was designed to accommodate larger or smaller crewmembers, and is equipped with upgraded computers, a new cockpit control panel and improved avionics. Zalyotin and Lonchakov represent Rosaviakosmos and DeWinne represents the European Space Agency (ESA). A cloud-covered Earth provides the backdrop for the scene.
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ISS005-E-19567 (4 November 2002) --- A Soyuz spacecraft, which carried the Soyuz 5 taxi crew, is docked to the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station (ISS). The new Soyuz TMA-1 vehicle was designed to accommodate larger or smaller crewmembers, and is equipped with upgraded computers, a new cockpit control panel and improved avionics. The blackness of space and Earth?s horizon provide the backdrop for the scene.
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ISS005-E-19259 (1 November 2002) --- A Soyuz spacecraft approaches the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station (ISS) carrying the Soyuz 5 taxi crew, Commander Sergei Zalyotin, Belgian Flight Engineer Frank DeWinne, and Flight Engineer Yuri V. Lonchakov for an eight-day stay on the station. The new Soyuz TMA-1 vehicle was designed to accommodate larger or smaller crewmembers, and is equipped with upgraded computers, a new cockpit control panel and improved avionics. Zalyotin and Lonchakov represent Rosaviakosmos and DeWinne represents the European Space Agency (ESA). A cloud-covered Earth provides the backdrop for the scene.
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ISS005-E-19267 (1 November 2002) --- A Soyuz spacecraft approaches the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station (ISS) carrying the Soyuz 5 taxi crew, Commander Sergei Zalyotin, Belgian Flight Engineer Frank DeWinne, and Flight Engineer Yuri V. Lonchakov for an eight-day stay on the station. The new Soyuz TMA-1 vehicle was designed to accommodate larger or smaller crewmembers, and is equipped with upgraded computers, a new cockpit control panel and improved avionics. Zalyotin and Lonchakov represent Rosaviakosmos and DeWinne represents the European Space Agency (ESA). The blackness of space and Earth?s horizon provide the backdrop for the scene.
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ISS005-E-19257 (1 November 2002) --- A Soyuz spacecraft approaches the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station (ISS) carrying the Soyuz 5 taxi crew, Commander Sergei Zalyotin, Belgian Flight Engineer Frank DeWinne, and Flight Engineer Yuri V. Lonchakov for an eight-day stay on the station. The new Soyuz TMA-1 vehicle was designed to accommodate larger or smaller crewmembers, and is equipped with upgraded computers, a new cockpit control panel and improved avionics. Zalyotin and Lonchakov represent Rosaviakosmos and DeWinne represents the European Space Agency (ESA). The blackness of space and Earth?s horizon provide the backdrop for the scene.
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ISS005-E-17236 (13 October 2002) --- The Space Shuttle Atlantis? payload bay and vertical stabilizer are backdropped against a blue and white Earth. Atlantis was docked with the International Space Station (ISS) at the time.
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ISS005-E-17235 (13 October 2002) --- The Space Shuttle Atlantis? payload bay and vertical stabilizer are backdropped against a blue and white Earth. Atlantis was docked with the International Space Station (ISS) at the time.
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ISS005-E-16977 (9 October 2002) --- Backdropped against a blue and white Earth, this view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis was photographed by an Expedition Five crewmember onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during rendezvous and docking operations. Docking occurred at 10:17 a.m. (CDT) on October 9, 2002. The Starboard One (S-1) Truss, which was later attached to the station and outfitted during three spacewalks, can be seen in Atlantis? cargo bay.
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ISS005-E-16971 (9 October 2002) --- Backdropped against a blue and white Earth, this view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis was photographed by an Expedition Five crewmember onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during rendezvous and docking operations. Docking occurred at 10:17 a.m. (CDT) on October 9, 2002. The Starboard One (S-1) Truss, which was later attached to the station and outfitted during three spacewalks, can be seen in Atlantis? cargo bay.
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ISS005-E-16973 (9 October 2002) --- Backdropped against a blue and white Earth, this view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis was photographed by an Expedition Five crewmember onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during rendezvous and docking operations. Docking occurred at 10:17 a.m. (CDT) on October 9, 2002. The Starboard One (S-1) Truss, which was later attached to the station and outfitted during three spacewalks, can be seen in Atlantis? cargo bay.
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ISS005-E-16516 (9 October 2002) --- Backdropped against a blue and white Earth, this view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis was photographed by an Expedition Five crewmember onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during rendezvous and docking operations. Docking occurred at 10:17 a.m. (CDT) on October 9, 2002. The S1 (S-One) Truss, which is scheduled to be attached to the station and outfitted during three spacewalks, can be seen in Atlantis? cargo bay.
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ISS005-E-16521 (9 October 2002) --- Backdropped against a blue and white Earth, this view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis was photographed by an Expedition Five crewmember onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during rendezvous and docking operations. Docking occurred at 10:17 a.m. (CDT) on October 9, 2002. The S1 (S-One) Truss, which is scheduled to be attached to the station and outfitted during three spacewalks, can be seen in Atlantis? cargo bay.
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ISS005-E-12804 (6 September 2002) --- Tarbela Dam, Pakistan is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 5 crewmember on the International Space Station (ISS). The Indus River basin extends from the Himalaya mountain ranges forming the northeastern boundary of Pakistan, to the alluvial plains of Sindh near the Arabian Sea coastline. Tarbela Dam is part of the Indus Basin Project that resulted from a water treaty signed in 1960 between India and Pakistan. This treaty guaranteed Pakistan water supplies independent of upstream control by India. Designed primarily for water storage rather than power generation, the dam was completed in 1977. Turquoise waters of the Indus River (to the south of the dam) reflect the high proportion of silt and clay suspended in waters released by the spillways (chutes on either of side of the main dam). With a volume of 142,000,000 cubic meters, the Tarbela Dam is the largest earth and rockfill dam in the world and stands 147 meters above the Indus riverbed. Its reservoir occupies an area of 37 square kilometers. While the dam has fulfilled its purpose in storing water for agricultural use in Pakistan, there have been environmental consequences to the Indus river delta, according to NASA scientists who are studying the Space Station photography. Reduction of seasonal flooding and reduced water flows to the delta have resulted in decrease of mangrove stands and abundance of some fish species.
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ISS005-E-10000 (18 August 2002) --- This is the first of two images recently released by the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center, showing the devastating European flooding in August. The images were captured by astronauts using a digital still camera onboard the International Space Station (ISS). The photographs show flooding around the Danube Bend area just north of Budapest near the city of V?c, Hungary. The flood peaked in Budapest the day after this photo was made, on August 19, at about 8.5 meters (28 feet), exceeding the previous 1965 flood record. This image shows the waters inundating farmland in the flood plain. Image no. ISS005-E-10926 shows the area four days later.
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ISS005-E-10926 (23 August 2002) --- This is the second of two images recently released by the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center, showing some of the devastating late summer 2002 European flooding. The images were captured by astronauts using a digital still camera onboard the International Space Station (ISS). The photographs show flooding around the Danube Bend area just north of Budapest near the city of V?c, Hungary. The flood peaked in Budapest four days before this photo was made, on August 19, at about 8.5 meters (28 feet), exceeding the previous 1965 flood record. Water had begun to recede when this image was made. Image no. ISS005-E-10000 shows the area four days earlier.
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ISS005-E-09451 (11 August 2002) --- Jericho, Israel is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 5 crewmember on the International Space Station (ISS). NASA experts on space-to-earth photos researched the background of the area and the details of the picture and supplied the following information: commonly known as ?the oldest city in the world?, Jericho is an important historical, cultural, and political center located to the northwest of the Dead Sea. The city is perhaps best known from the Biblical account of a great victory over its Canaanite citizens by the Israelite leader Joshua, wherein the walls of the heavily fortified city were destroyed with divine assistance during the year 1400 BC. The site of ancient Jericho (known today as Tell es-Sultan), has been the focus of several archaeological excavations to investigate the Biblical account. The original settlement was built on a hill, or ?tell?. The results of these excavations suggest that the walls of Tell es-Sultan have been built and rebuilt many times, due mainly to collapse caused by earthquakes common in the region.
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ISS005-E-9984 (17 August 2002) --- This digital still photograph, taken from the International Space Station (ISS) during its fifth staffing, depicts both agriculture and the petroleum industry, which compete for land use near Denver City, Texas. The photo was recently released by the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center. The area is southwest of Lubbock near the New Mexico border. According to analysts studying the station imagery, the economy of this region is almost completely dependent on its underground resources of petroleum and water. Both resources result in distinctive land use patterns visible from space. Historically this area has produced vast quantities of oil and gas since development began in the 1930s. A fine, light-colored grid of roads and pipelines connect well sites over this portion of the Wasson Oil Field, one of the state?s most productive. Since the 1940s, agricultural land use has shifted from grazing to irrigated cultivation of cotton, sorghum, wheat, hay, and corn. The water supply is drawn from wells tapping the vast Ogallala Aquifer. Note the large, circular center-pivot irrigation systems in the lower corners of the image. The largest is nearly a mile in diameter.
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ISS005-E-05871 (25 June 2002) --- Backdropped by the blue and white Earth, an unpiloted Progress 7 supply vehicle departs from the Zvezda Service Module?s docking port on the International Space Station (ISS) carrying its load of trash and unneeded equipment to be deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere. The undocking clears the way for the arrival of a new Progress 8, filled with fresh supplies, which is planned to dock to the station at 1:25 a.m. (CDT) on June 29, 2002.
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