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Astronauts in Weightlessness - 06/2008

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-sts12-43002

Image Size 300 DPI: 26 * 17 cm

A "fish-eye" lens on a digital still camera was used to record this image of the STS-124 and Expedition 17 crewmembers as they share a meal on the middeck of the Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station. Pictured counter-clockwise (from the left bottom) are NASA astronauts Mark Kelly, STS-124 commander; Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, Expedition 17 commander; NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, STS-124 mission specialist; Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko; NASA astronauts Greg Chamitoff, both Expedition 17 flight engineers; NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, all STS-124 mission specialists; and NASA astronaut Ken Ham, STS-124 pilot. 8 June 2008.

Keywords for this photo:

2008 - ASTRONAUT - CHAMITOFF GREG - DISCOVERY - EVERYDAY LIFE - EXPEDITION 17 - FISH-EYE - FOOD - FOSSUM MICHAEL - HAM KEN - HOSHIDE HAKIHIKO - HUMAN - KELLY MARK - KONONENKO OLEG - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - MEAL - NYBERG KAREN - ONBOARD ACTIVITY - REISMAN GARRETT - SPACE - SPACE SHUTTLE - STS-124 - VOLKOV SERGEI - WEIGHTLESSNESS - ZERO GRAVITY -