An awesome photograph - take a look.

[vlebo]

Put it as my desktop pic the second I saw it.

[Gra]

Put it as my desktop pic the second I saw it.

Me too.

[glowjet]

Thats a WOW photo and will no doubt be used on many occasions in the future to show of our achievements in space

[sulaco]

That's amazing, what a shot for them to end their days with.

[Bluenosebatty]

Truly stunning!

This is picture actualy front page of THE TIMES news paper, if you live anywhere near a paper shop run n get a copy, the first time the ISS has been taken a pic of fully assbled! Its a nice little pic to keep! Theres also a nice little write up, the picture was taken by Italian Astronaut Paolo Nespoli,

"like all good photographic models the ISS even posed for its colse up, once the Soyuz was safley undocked and 600ft away mission controllers in moscow gave orders for the ISS to rotate 130 degrees to show its best side as it hurtled around the planet at 17,500mph" 8-)

"The pictures were taken on may 23rd but took 2 weeks to be released after major Ne-Spoli left the camera's memory card in the Soyuz after it landed in Kazakhstan desert later the same day, officials had to wait for the craft to be shipped back base before the card could be retrieved. The $8000 Nikon D3-x camera equipment that he used did not make it, it was jettisoned inside the Soyuz orbital modual- which breaks away to shed weight as a matter of routine when the space craft descends and was burnt up in the Earths atmosphere."

Theres also another picture on the write up from a slight different angle. To think US humans built this truly amazing!