ISS and Shuttle in May. Original image: Paolo Nespoli / Expedition 27

It’s been a looooong time since I’ve done a wallpaper post. Mostly because I can usually link to a wallpaper version of a decent picture. So when I saw this image of the ISS and docked shuttle, well I just had to post it even though you can get wallpaper versions and variations of this.

The image was taken by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 after it undocked on May 23, 2011. The picture is also among the first taken from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz.

To be more screen friendly to me the background images are rotated, flipped (because my screen icons cover the ISS/Shuttle) and of course re-sized from the original which can be found by looking through NASA’s image gallery.