Miguel says:

Absolutely breathtaking!

The last photo is of hurricane Dave, which forced NASA to bring the shuttle to Earth 1 day earlier than originally planned.

I am amazed at how all this seems unreal – so much so that more and more people can’t believe it’s even real – see earlier comments. But NASA is really doing all this! You can see the ISS from Earth with a modest sized telescope, if you know where to look – so it’s really there! And believe me, one day photos of the Apollo landing modules will be taken, and everyone will just go Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh……

Most unfortunate that these things seem unreal, and are done so rarely… For me it’s like we’re going back to the Stone Age, an the Apollo days are becoming some sort of a folk tale, a legend. Sad, very sad…

Miguel says:

Here’s a video of the hurricane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxFOm8BC4GE

Glenn E says:

Ah NASA… Time once again to show the public what they’re paying for. Whether the public wanted it or not. And if just 10% did, that’s a good enough excuse for Congress to approve funds for it. They do this PR stuff about twice a year. In the spring, for appropriations time. And in the fall, for the new school year, so it gets worked into the curriculum as “current affairs”.

BTW, Jopa. You can see what the astronauts see by going to one of those IMAX theater shows. And someday soon, HDTVs will bring these views right into your livingroom. Rather than funding a rarely useful space laboratory, NASA should just build a Tv station up there. That way we can all tune in on these views and more. Why should we have to way for them to dole out the pics, piecemeal? Let’s have 24/7 views of earth in glorious HD, so we can all get bored of seeing it.