Apple pie in the sky

Discover the incredible picture of the Space Shuttle Endeavour released by NASA, taken from a space station using a telephoto lens.

Written byPhil Plait
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BABloggee and webmaster of the fantastic What's The Harm? website Tim Farley pointed out to me that NASA has released an incredible picture of the Space Shuttle Endeavour:

The picture was taken from the space station using a telephoto, and the linked page goes to a huge 1.6 Mb picture that's 1200x800 3000x2000 pixels. It's really quite stunning! ... but Tim also pointed out to me that you can see something sitting on the window console:

I wonder if they have one of those little FM transmitters so it's hooked up to the dashboard radio. I guess having an iPod inside the Shuttle is as useful as an OMS pod outside!

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