Mapping sequence performed during the STS-115 R-Bar Pitch Maneuver

ISS013-E-80048 (11 Sept. 2006)---A crewmember aboard the International Space Station captured this high angle view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis with a digital still camera as the orbiter performed a backflip while it was about 600 feet from the station during its approach. The flip, done on every shuttle mission, allows a full photographic survey of the shuttle heat shield to be taken by the station crew. This image from that survey shows the crew cabin and part of the cargo bay, the orbiter docking system, part of the P3/P4 Integrated Truss Structure, the Ku-band antenna, part of the remote manipulator system arm and the orbiter boom sensor system (OBSS).