View of PMA 2 during STS-111 UF-2 approach for docking

STS111-E-5018 (7 June 2002) --- This closeup view of the forward docking port on the International Space Station (ISS) was photographed with a digital still camera by one the STS-111 crew members just prior to docking. The Space Shuttle Endeavour 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.