Soyuz to Photograph Endeavour and Station

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The International Space Station
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"Space shuttle Endeavour, get ready for your wide shot."

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SPACE.com Download time: May 21 2011 9:08 AM ET

Space shuttle Endeavour, get ready for your wide shot.

NASA's International Space Station mission managers on Friday (May 19) approved a plan to photograph space shuttle Endeavour while it is still docked to the space station from the perspective of a departing Russian spacecraft.

"We have what I term a unique opportunity," said Kenneth Todd, chair of NASA's space station mission management team. "We, as a community with 100 percent consensus, approved this change to the baseline to go add this photo documentation task as part of the 25S [TMA-20] undock."…

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