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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
A Space Station Meets its Destiny
Explanation: The International Space Station (ISS) had a date with Destiny earlier this month. More specifically, the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis installed the science laboratory named Destiny on the ISS . Destiny, pictured here , will also serve as a control center for the Earth orbiting space station . To help install this module, space shuttle astronauts conducted the 100th space walk by an American , an event that occurred nearly 40 years after Ed White first ventured outside of his Gemini 4 spacecraft . The space shuttle's crew took the above picture after their spacecraft had undocked from the space station. Over two hundred kilometers below lies the Rio Negro region of Argentina .
| Date | February 28, 2001 |
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| Credit | Credit: STS-98 Crew , NASA |
| Authors & editors: | Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) |
| A service of: |
ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. |