You've never seen this before. Oh, it's been imaged in artist's renderings, but never like this. It's an actual photograph taken from another spacecraft of the Space Shuttle docked to the International Space Station.
This view of shuttle Endeavour, taken by Italian astronaut Paulo Nespoli from aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule on May 23, is the culmination of 36 space shuttle missions to build the outpost over the past 12 years.
NASA wanted the shot before it retires the shuttle fleet after one final mission in July.
See more here:
Historic Pairing: Shuttle Docked to the ISS : Big Pic : Discovery News
Thierry Legault - International Space Station and Endeavour - STS-134 - Twilight passages and solar transits
Also, same Space Station and Shuttle photographed (video) from the Earth, 342 miles below. Of special note are the photographs on the bottom half of that page, where the backdrop for the Station and Shuttle is the Sun. It's truly spectacular.
