International Space Station (ISS) at sunrise, artwork. At upper left is the European Space Agency's (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), used to pr

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International Space Station (ISS) at sunrise, artwork. At upper left is the European Space Agency's (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), used to provide supplies for the ISS. This is the Jules Verne ATV, present at the ISS between April and September 2008 and docked to the Zvezda module. Backlit by the Sun is an unmanned Progress capsule that has undocked and is ready to de-orbit and burn up in the atmosphere with its cargo of waste. To its right is a Soyuz capsule. ISS modules present include the laboratories of the USA (Destiny, marked NASA) and Europe (Columbus, marked ESA). The ISS orbits the Earth at an altitude of some 360 kilometres.

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Photo credit: © DAVID DUCROS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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