ISS Back on Track

News of the SS Atlantis’s successful mission to the ISS, setting the international community back on track to complete the station over the next four years and fourteen missions may be old news by now, but have you seen this picture? Maybe you should check out the full sized version below or download it cropped as desktop wallpaper.

Following the completion of the space station the remaining three shuttles in service will be retired, making way for the new Ares launch system and Orion crew vehicles, themselves the foundation of the Constellation program.

LINK/IMAGE (Astronomy Picture of the Day) WALLPAPER [widescreen 1920x1200] WALLPAPER [fullscreen 1600x1200]

VIDEO [ISS assembly process simulation]