{"id":16724,"date":"2011-06-09T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=16724"},"modified":"2011-06-08T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T00:16:00","slug":"our-strange-sky-snapshots-of-endeavours-last-mission-in-space-also-hot-space-docking-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/our-strange-sky-snapshots-of-endeavours-last-mission-in-space-also-hot-space-docking-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Strange Sky: Snapshots of Endeavours Last Mission in Space. Also, Hot Space Docking Action."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up above the sky so blue, astronauts are working hard on their experiments and observations. <\/p>\n<p>Sidenote: Of all the things that have been written on this site, we swear &#8220;Hot Space Docking Action&#8221; is what we may future regret the most.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Endeavour&#8217;s Starry Night <\/strong><br \/>\nOrbiting this island earth at 17,000 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110602.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/iss028e006193-e1307575160309.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Orbiting above at 17,000 miles per hour\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16725\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p><strong>Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together<\/strong><br \/>\nThanks to a Russian supply ship, Space Bastards(like us) get the photograph we always imagined and have always seen in fiction.<\/p>\n<p>If you want more of these images be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/multimedia\/e27depart.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">check out the NASA&#8217;s ISS gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110608.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/shuttleiss_nasa_6048-e1307575298689.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Space docking as we always imagined it.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16726\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The supply ship was the Russian Soyuz TMA-20 which landed in Kazakhstan later that day. The<a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110608.html\" class=\"external external_icon\"> above spectacular image well captures the relative sizes of the station and docked shuttle. Far below, clouds of Earth are seen above a blue sea<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>A Last Landing for Space Shuttle Endeavour <\/strong><br \/>\nSad now.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110607.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/landing_endeavour_2549-e1307575403920.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Endeavour leaving the skies for the last time.\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16727\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>All told, space shuttle Endeavour flew 25 flights since being deployed by NASA in 1992, <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110607.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">spending a total of 299 days in space<\/a>. Endeavour&#8217;s next mission will be a stationary one in the California Science Center. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>APOD: <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110602.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110608.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110607.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/multimedia\/e27depart.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">NASA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up above the sky so blue, astronauts are working hard on their experiments and observations. Sidenote: Of all the things that have been written on this site, we swear &#8220;Hot Space Docking Action&#8221; is what we may future regret the most. Endeavour&#8217;s Starry Night Orbiting this island earth at 17,000 miles per hour. Space Shuttle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,8],"tags":[238,3589,4378,1637,1442,4277,239],"class_list":["post-16724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-technology","tag-earth-orbit","tag-international-space-station","tag-long-exposure","tag-our-strange-sky","tag-space-shuttle","tag-space-shuttle-endeavour","tag-space-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16724"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16739,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724\/revisions\/16739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}