ISS and Space Shuttle, May 2011. The International Space Station (ISS) with Space Shuttle Endeavour docked to it, taken from the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecra

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ISS and Space Shuttle, May 2011. The International Space Station (ISS) with Space Shuttle Endeavour docked to it, taken from the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft as it left the ISS. This was mission STS-134 (16th May to 1st June 2011) for the Space Shuttle, which delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) to the ISS. AMS-02 is a particle detector that will search for dark matter and antimatter. This was Endeavour's final flight. Photographed on 23rd May 2011.

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