The
International Space Station (ISS) floats sedately above Earth as seen from
space shuttle Endeavour on March 24, 2008.
An STS-123
astronaut snapped this image as the space shuttle began relative separation
from the space station, following 12 days of a construction
marathon involving the shuttle and space station crews. The 16-day missions
marked the longest ever shuttle mission to ISS.
The space station
again received visitors on April 10, including a second-generation cosmonaut and South Korea's first astronaut, when
a Russian
Soyuz spacecraft docked. So-yeon Yi is only the second Asian woman to fly
in space, and she plans to conduct science and educational activities while
onboard the space station. The South Korean will return to Earth with ISS
Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson and flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko this
week.
— NASA and SPACE.com Staff
Credit: NASA
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