Artwork of a 3-man Soyuz TMA-M preparing to dock with a 6-man Orion class CEV in low Earth orbit. Russian and Western spacecraft employ different dock

---

Artwork of a 3-man Soyuz TMA-M preparing to dock with a 6-man Orion class CEV in low Earth orbit. Russian and Western spacecraft employ different docking and airlock solutions, hence the CEV hosts an adapter module that makes the two spacecraft compatible and includes a hatch for EVA and science instrumentation.

---

Size: 4861px × 3646px
Photo credit: © WALTER MYERS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: art, artwork, astronautical, astronautics, astronomical, capsule, cev, command, crew, earth, engineering, exploration, flight, human, illustration, leo, lockheed, martin, module, nasa, orbit, orion, russian, service, soyuz, space, spaceflight, technology, tma-, vehicle