Endeavour Through the Clouds
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Endeavour Through the Clouds
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Space Shuttle Endeavour, through the clouds, Somewhere above Florida, 05/16/2011.
There is something truly awe-striking in this image. The space shuttle, actually a huge and powerful piece of engineering, appears tiny, dwarfed, when confronted with the immensity of the planet the gravity of which it is trying to overcome. Considering the Earth itself a tiny "pale blue dot" lost in the dark immensity of the universe, this image is the perfect metaphor of how small but daring we are.
Photographed from a shuttle training aircraft, space shuttle Endeavour and its six-member STS-134 crew pierce the cloud ceiling as they head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station.
Liftoff was from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Onboard are NASA astronauts Mark Kelly, commander; Greg H. Johnson, pilot; Michael Fincke, Andrew Feustel, Greg Chamitoff and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, all mission specialists.
STS-134 wass the final spaceflight for Endeavour.
Original image by NASA, further enhancements by Weston Westmoreland.
More NASA and Hubble enhanced images one copy-paste away in my gallery at https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/collections/astronomy
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February 17th, 2020
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