Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member STS-120 Size:14" x 20" Originally a chromolitograph

Originally a chromolitograph

The image was made possible by the new satellite's "day-night band" of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)

A shroud of blue haze gently lingers amid the stars

is pictured here working for the traffic police in the early 1920's near the Carnegie Library in Washington D

Photographer March 1966

Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member STS-120 Size:14" x 20" Originally a chromolitographThe Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven member STS 120 crew, 23 Oct. 2007, head toward Earth orbit and a scheduled link up with the International Space Station. Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A occurred at 11: 38: 19 a. m. (EDT). Onboard are astronauts Pam Melroy, commander; George Zamka, pilot; Scott Parazynski, Stephanie Wilson, Doug Wheelock, European Space Agency's (ESA) Paolo Nespoli and Daniel Tani, all mission specialists.