Blue sky underfoot

March 16th, 2011

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Space shuttle «Discovery» last call on the International Space Station and its astronauts have carried out several spacewalks.We offer you the most exciting pictures of spacewalks made during the last mission.

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The Mission STS-116 Courbet, Robert L., Jr. (left) and Christer Fuglesang in the first of three planned spacewalks on the International Space Station. (NASA)

Randolph Bresnik astronaut with extensive antenna designed for the pilot tracking signals of ultrashort waves of ships at sea. (NASA)

Against the backdrop of the blackness of space and Earth’s horizon space shuttle «Endeavour», moored to a pressurized docking adapter on the International Space Station, during the first exit from outer space. (NASA)

Exit the space of 20 km from the International Space Station. (ESA / NASA / Paulo Nespoli)

A specialist during the third and final spacewalk on the International Space Station. During the spacewalk, which lasted for 5 hours and 48 minutes, Patrick, and astronaut Robert Behnken (not pictured) completed all scheduled tasks, removing the insulating coating and constraints bolts from each of the seven windows domes. (NASA)

Hello, «Discovery». (NASA / ESA / Paulo Nespoli)

Our blue planet. (NASA)

Astronaut Rick Mastrachchio during the third spacewalk of the mission STS-118 aboard the International Space Station on Aug. 15, 2007. (NASA)

Astronauts Clay Anderson (left) and Rick Mastrachchio during the third spacewalk on Aug. 15, 2007. (NASA)

The shadow of the International Space Station on the shuttle «Discovery». (NASA / ESA / Paolo Nespoli)

Space Shuttle «Discovery» approaching the International Space Station against earth. (NASA)

Astronauts Steve Bowen and Al Drew operate in open space. (NASA / Paulo Nespoli)

Astronaut Clay Anderson on the background of black space and the earth’s horizon August 15, 2007. (NASA)

Against the blue sky and white clouds of Earth shuttle «Endeavour» joined to the laboratory «Destiny» International Space Station. (NASA)

In February 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless second furthest distanced himself from the ship’s safe zone. This “feat” was made possible thanks to MMU – a rocket with a jet of compressed nitrogen. After a few test maneuvers in and over the ship’s cargo bay «Challenger» McCandless went on a “free flight” at a distance of 97 meters from the ship. At this amazing picture McCandless seems a doll against the blackness of space and the blue of our Earth. (NASA)

The southern end of Grenladii. (NASA)

Astronaut Robert L. Stewart cloud hovering over the Earth in February 1984. (NASA)

Astronauts Alvin Drew and Steve Bowen are working in open space. Among other tasks, they also delivered an experimental Japanese “Message in a Bottle” in space. (NASA)

The space telescope Hubble above the Earth after disconnecting from the space shuttle «Discovery» at the end of a successful mission for maintenance in 1999. (NASA)

NASA astronaut Rick Mastrachchio in space April 11, 2010. (NASA)

Shuttle remote manipulator «Endeavour». Picture taken by a crew member from the shuttle. (NASA)

Astronaut Steve Bowen in the open space on Nov. 24, 2008. (NASA)

Part of the cargo bay of shuttle «Atlantis», as well as its vertical stabilizer, orbital system of manipulation and docking mechanism on the background of black space and Blue Earth. (NASA)

Astronaut Randy Bresnik November 21, 2009. (NASA)

Robert Becken 14 February 2010. (NASA)

The external fuel tank of STS-131 begins to separate from the space shuttle «Discovery» April 5, 2010. (NASA)

Remote manipulator, which is controlled in the cabin of the shuttle astronauts «Discovery», begins to conduct a thorough inspection of the shuttle thermal February 25, 2011. (NASA)