
STS102-E-5315 (18 March 2001) --- The International Space Station (ISS) backdropped against a mass of clouds over Earth was photographed with a digital still camera from the Space Shuttle Discovery on March 18, 2001. It is a standard operation for the shuttle to make a final fly-around of the outpost following unlinking from it. A new crew comprised of cosmonaut Yury V. Usachev and astronauts James S. Voss and Susan J. Helms will spend several months aboard the station.
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March 19, 2001
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