Cumbrian Sky

Great coverage on NASA TV last night of the departure of space shuttle Endeavour from the International Space Station at the end of its 12 day mission. I grabbed these pics, which look nice even when this small, but I hope there are hi-resolution versions of some of these because some of those images of the shuttle against the Earth would be beautiful, wouldn't they..?

I've said it before and I'll say it again. For all its technical, financial and reliability faults, the space shuttle is the most beautiful spacecraft ever built and will be sadly missed when replaced by the Orion capsule.

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