International Space Station ISS close up view
17 April 2002 This close up view of the International Space Station ISS newly equipped with the 27 000 pound S0 S zero truss was photographed by one of the astronauts on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis S0 is the first segment of a truss structure which will ultimately expand the station to the length of a football field Atlantis pulled away from the complex at 1 31 p m CDT as the two spacecraft flew some 247 statute miles above Earth After more than a week of joint operations between the shuttle and station crews astronaut Stephen N Frick pilot backed Atlantis away to a distance of about 400 feet in front of the station where he began a 1 lap flyaround of the ISS
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