Space shuttle silhouetted against the sun

[Vexing]

NASA'S space shuttle Atlantis has been caught in a stunning snap silhouetted against the sun.
The pic — the first ever image taken of a solar transit of a space shuttle and Hubble Space Telescope — was taken by an amateur astronomer from his back garden.

It shows Atlantis several minutes before the craft successfully grappled the telescope.
Astronauts aboard the shuttle are now repairing and upgrading Hubble for the last time in a series of spacewalks.

The extraordinary photos were taken by Thierry Legault, an engineer famed for his pictures of space taken in his yard in Paris.
He took his latest image in Florida, 60 miles south of the Kennedy Space Centre.

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[lizbeth]

wow! that's neat!

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[RebeccaFog]

I liked the part where the shuttle crew got out and walked upon the sun.

Unfortunately, two of them urinated on it and were fired by the Yellowstone Park people.