Wallpaper From STS-120

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I was in serious want of changing my wallpaper, I decided on this one from STS-120 flight day 6. If you want it, the links are the NASA press release below:

About the image from NASA:

Astronaut Daniel Tani, Expedition 16 flight engineer, participates in the second of five scheduled sessions of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction continues on the International Space Station. During the 6-hour, 33-minute spacewalk Tani and astronaut Scott Parazynski (out of frame), STS-120 mission specialist, worked in tandem to disconnect cables from the P6 truss, allowing it to be removed from the Z1 truss. Tani also visually inspected the station’s starboard Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ) and gathered samples of “shavings” he found under the joint’s multi-layer insulation covers. Also the spacewalkers outfitted the Harmony module, mated the power and data grapple fixture and reconfigured connectors on the starboard 1 (S1) truss that will allow the radiator on S1 to be deployed from the ground later.

The wallpaper:

Image Credit: NASA

4 Comments so far

  1. Michael Larick on November 4th, 2007

    Great picture!!!

  2. Marko Pyhajarvi on November 5th, 2007

    Wow! That’s a nice picture. I put it to my background as well. Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Bryan on November 5th, 2007

    thanx Tom really liked the pic

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