View of the ISS against the blackness of space as photographed by an STS-111 UF-2 crewmember

STS111-E-5013 (7 June 2002) --- This view of the International Space Station (ISS), backdropped against the blackness of space, was photographed with a digital still camera by one the STS-111 crew members as the Space Shuttle Endeavour approached the station for docking. The shuttle went on to gently dock with the station 240 miles over the South Pacific, setting the stage for eight days of docked operations highlighted by three scheduled spacewalks and the exchange of resident crews aboard the outpost. Astronaut Kenneth D. Cockrell, mission commander, guided the shuttle to a linkup with the forward docking port of the station’s Destiny Laboratory at 11:25 a.m. (CDT), June 7, 2002. The docking culminated a textbook rendezvous executed by astronauts Cockrell and Paul S. Lockhart, pilot.