Astronaut Ron Garan stands affixed to the International Space Station's robotic arm as he moves a failed pump module from the station to the cargo bay of the space shuttle Atlantis on July 12 2011.
The launch plume of the space shuttle Atlantis towers over the Florida coast as seen from a NASA Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) on July 8. Despite fears of bad weather, Atlantis lifted off almost on schedule for the final space shuttle mission.
Iridescent like an oil slick, clouds swirl in shades of teal, violet, and crimson in a false-color picture of a huge storm spied on Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The storm wraps around the planet, stretching 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) and spanning about 9,000 miles (15,000 kilometers).
A comet takes aim at the sun in a picture from NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory taken on July 5. The main body of the sun is hidden behind a dark circle in the SOHO picture so that scientists can study the sun's much fainter upper atmosphere, or corona.
During its lifetime, Atlantis traveled to the Russian space station Mir seven times, and it deployed the Magellan mission to Venus and the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter, both in 1989
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