Posted on Apr 17, 2022

APOD: 2022 April 17 - Shuttle Over Earth

Maj William W. 'Bill' Price

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Good morning and Happy Easter, Rallypoint. Welcome to the April 17th Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): "Shuttle Over Earth." I was working at NASA in 2010 when this picture came back from the International Space Station (ISS), and it found a place on my wall immediately. Looking through the APOD archives this morning, I was surprised to see it had not been published before...so now that error is corrected. You see a silhouette of the shuttle Endeavor as it approaches the ISS framed by the layers of the Earth's atmosphere (troposphere, mesosphere, and stratosphere). Is it just by accident that these thin layers of gas both sustain us and protect us from the ravages of space? I don't think so.

APOD: 2022 April 17 - Shuttle Over Earth

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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL

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Maj William W. 'Bill' Price good afternoon my friend, and good to see you on the RP net April 17, 2022 EASTER SUNDAY. I have said it many times before, yet I will say it again, "nobody does it better from above". Thank you for sharing Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): "Shuttle Over Earth."

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. SGT Charlie Lee PO2 Marco Monsalve SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth ] SSG William Jones Sgt (Join to see) 1SG Dan Capri CDR Andrew McMenamin, PhD SrA John Monette SFC Bernard Walko GySgt Jack Wallace SPC Michael Terrell SMSgt Anil Heendeniya CPL Patrick Rasmussen

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Lt Col Charlie Brown

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Amazing photo!

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GySgt Jack Wallace

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Great shot of the shuttle over earth.

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