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Astronaut Ron Garan took this photo of Earth during a six-and-a-half hour spacewalk on July 12. Garan has been at the International Space Station as the flight engineer for Expedition 28 since March, when he arrived on board a Russian Soyuz capsule (like the one docked at the upper left).
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer in the foreground is a particle physics detector—delivered and installed during shuttle Endeavour's final mission in May—designed to look for antimatter and dark matter that might offer clues about the origin of the universe.
The crew compartment of the docked shuttle Atlantis, which is on its last mission and concludes NASA's 30-year shuttle program, can be seen on the right.
—Lauren F. Friedman
[1] http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/garan-rj.html
[2] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-space-stations-crown-jewel
[3] http://www.scientificamerican.com/report.cfm?id=shuttle-retirement
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Add CommentDo you have any idea how many ideas have come from the space program that we use everyday.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisFoolish people like you, use items everyday and don't even know where they came from.
Learning new things come at a cost, and the space program, whatever the cost, will be important to our future survival.
You are apparently unaware of the incalculable number of spinoffs the space program has generated, such as the computer (in whatever form - desktop, laptop, tablet, blackberry, whatever) you used to post your comment.
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