Image: Space Shuttle Spied En Route to Hubble

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Top Ten Space Pictures of 2009: Space Shuttle Spied En Route to Hubble



Using a telescope with a special solar filter, photographer Thierry Legault captured the tiny silhouette of the space shuttle Atlantis crossing in front of the sun in May.



The tightly cropped shot shows Atlantis in orbit--a day before the shuttle latched on to the Hubble Space Telescope so that astronauts could perform a series of spacewalks to repair and upgrade the iconic instrument.



Source: National Geographic
Views: 1,131
Added: 11 years ago.
Topic: 1.1.2 NASA Shuttle Program

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