Shuttle re-entry, seen from the ISS

via newscientist.com

The space shuttle Endeavour makes an S-turn during its meteor-like atmospheric re-entry after its latest mission on Sunday. Astronaut Soichi Noguchi took the picture from the International Space Station, looking out of the newly installed observation deck known as the Cupola, which was brought to the ISS by Endeavour and fitted in a series of space walks by its crew.

S-turns are a series of banking manoeuvres used to slow the shuttle during re-entry and as it begins its final approach.

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