Beautiful pictures of Endeavour docked at ISS taken from departing Soyuz

Re:Beautiful pictures of Endeavour docked at ISS taken from ... by cema on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @02:32AM (#2632230)

  ISS looks nothing like the space stations in sci-fi

I think it's because it does not have artificial gravity.

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Re:Beautiful pictures of Endeavour docked at ISS taken from ... by robryan on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @07:22AM (#2632687)

And has to have every component module fit in the shuttle.

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Re:Beautiful pictures of Endeavour docked at ISS taken from ... by cema on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @04:17PM (#2634833)

I think technically it can be an independent module, launched as the last stage of a rocket. Which, of course, also forces constrains.

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