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Busy beginning for 2011
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Backdropped against the blackness of space, Discovery is seen from the International Space Station as the two orbital spacecraft accomplish their relative separation on 7 March 2011 after an aggregate of 12 astronauts and cosmonauts worked together for over a week. During a post undocking fly-around, the crew members aboard the two spacecraft collected a series of photos of each other's vehicle.
Japan’s HTV-2 freighter began the sequence in January, before Russia’s Progress M-09M docked on 20 January. ESA’s ATV-2 roared into space atop an Ariane 5 on 16 February, docking majestically eight days later.
The latest visitor was Shuttle Discovery, leaving behind the European-built Leonardo module as a multipurpose storeroom.
The next Shuttle, targeted for launch on 19 April, will deliver the massive Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. Also aboard is another Italian astronaut, ESA’s Roberto Vittori.
MagISStra
Busy beginning for 2011
![]() © NASA
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Backdropped against the blackness of space, Discovery is seen from the International Space Station as the two orbital spacecraft accomplish their relative separation on 7 March 2011 after an aggregate of 12 astronauts and cosmonauts worked together for over a week. During a post undocking fly-around, the crew members aboard the two spacecraft collected a series of photos of each other's vehicle.
Japan’s HTV-2 freighter began the sequence in January, before Russia’s Progress M-09M docked on 20 January. ESA’s ATV-2 roared into space atop an Ariane 5 on 16 February, docking majestically eight days later.
The latest visitor was Shuttle Discovery, leaving behind the European-built Leonardo module as a multipurpose storeroom.
The next Shuttle, targeted for launch on 19 April, will deliver the massive Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. Also aboard is another Italian astronaut, ESA’s Roberto Vittori.