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STS106-327-005 - STS-106 - Flyaround views of the ISS taken from Atlantis during STS-106

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Description: ``Views of the International Space Station (ISS) taken from Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, during the final flyaround of the STS-106 mission. The ISS is currently comprised of the Functional Cargo Block (FGB) / Zarya, Node 1 / Unity, the Service Module (SM) / Zvezda, Pressurized Mating Adapters 1 and 2 (PMA1 and PMA2) and the Progress M1 vehicle. The Earth's surface backdrops these images.``

Subject Terms: STS-106 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ATLANTIS (ORBITER) SOLAR ARRAYS FGB SERVICE MODULE NODE 1 EARTH SURFACE PRESSURIZED MATING ADAPTER

Date Taken: 9/18/2000

Categories: Station Configuration

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Original: Film - 35MM CN

Preservation File Format: TIFF

geon: PACIFIC OCEAN

feat: PAN-CLOUDS, ISS

tilt: High Oblique

cldp: 50

nlat: 5.3

nlon: 141.5

azi: 263

alt: 204

elev: 65
STS-106

The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable space station in low Earth orbit with an altitude of between 330 and 435 km (205 and 270 mi). It completes 15.54 orbits per day. Its first component launched into orbit in 1998, and the ISS is now the largest man-made body in low Earth orbit. The ISS consists of many pressurized modules, external trusses, solar arrays, and other components. ISS components have been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets, and American Space Shuttles. The ISS is a space research laboratory, the testing ground for technologies and systems required for missions to the Moon and Mars. The station has been continuously occupied for 16 years and 201 days since the arrival of Expedition 1 on 2 November 2000. This is the longest continuous human presence in low Earth orbit, having surpassed the previous record of 9 years and 357 days held by Mir. The station is serviced by a variety of visiting spacecraft: the Russian Soyuz and Progress, the American Dragon and Cygnus, the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle, and formerly the Space Shuttle and the European Automated Transfer Vehicle. It has been visited by astronauts, cosmonauts and space tourists from 17 different nations.

Space Shuttle Atlantis was a space shuttle that was operated by NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program. It was the fourth operational shuttle built, and the last one to be built before the program was retired in 2011. Atlantis was named after the first research vessel operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and it made its first flight in October 1985. Over the course of its career, Atlantis completed 33 missions and spent a total of 307 days in space. Its last mission was STS-135, which was the final mission of the Space Shuttle program. Atlantis is now on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) was one of the four first operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States. (The other two are Discovery and Endeavour.) Atlantis was the fourth operational shuttle built. Atlantis is named after a two-masted sailing ship that operated from 1930 to 1966 for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Atlantis performed well in 25 years of service, flying 33 missions.

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