Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
A Supply Ship Approaches the Space Station
Explanation:
Looking out a window of the International Space Station [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] brings breathtaking views. Visible vistas include a vast and colorful Earth, a deep dark sky, and an occasional spaceship sent to visit the station. Visible on September 20 of last year was a Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft [ http://en.wikipedia…] carrying not only supplies but also three new astronauts. A few days before this picture [ http://spaceflight.…] was taken, the U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis [ http://www.youtube.…] had just departed. The three new approaching astronauts were American Michael E. Lopez-Alegria [ http://www.nasa.gov…], Russian Mikhail Tyurin [ http://www.nasa.gov…], and Iranian-American Anousheh Ansari [ http://en.wikipedia…]. Ms. Ansari visited the International Space Station (ISS) briefly as a paying spaceflight participant for the Federal Space Agency [ http://www.roscosmo…] of Russia, and wrote a popular blog [ http://spaceblog.xp…] about her experiences. Lopez-Alegria would lead the ISS crew dubbed Expedition 14 [ http://www.nasa.gov…], which included the flight engineer and Soyuz pilot Tyurin, flight engineer American Sunita Williams [ http://www.nasa.gov…], and flight engineer German Thomas Reiter [ http://www.jsc.nasa…]. Tyurin returned [ http://www.nasa.gov…] to the Earth with Lopez-Alegria this past week.
Credit and Copyright:
ISS Expedition 13 [ http://www.nasa.gov…] Crew, NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
facet_who:
Mikhail Tyurin
facet_who:
Thomas Reiter
facet_who:
Sunita "Suni" Williams
facet_where:
Russia
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Soyuz TMA-9
facet_what:
Space Shuttle Orbiter
facet_what:
International Space Station (ISS)
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap070423

A Supply Ship Approaches the Space Station
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