20 Breathtaking Images From NASA’s Public Library

International Space Station

During their separation on July 19, 2011, space shuttle Atlantis took this photograph of the International Space Station.

Russian cosmonauts Andrei Borisenko, Sergei Volkov, and Alexander Samokutyayev, Japan Aerospace Exploration astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and NASA astronauts Mike Fossum and Ron Garan were all aboard the ISS. The shuttle astronauts were Chris Ferguson, Doug Hurley, Sandy Magnus, and Rex Walheim.