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Discovery's ApproachDocked with the International Space Station, a Russian Progress spacecraft seems to take aim at the space shuttle Discovery as the shuttle approaches the ISS, as seen in an astronaut picture taken last Saturday.Discovery docked with the station at 2:14 p.m. ET that day. Discovery's crew is spending 11 days at the station to deliver supplies and help install new modules.
Photograph courtesy NASA

Space Pictures This Week: Discovery Docks, Orion Sparkles

A space shuttle makes its final flight, the sun explodes with activity, and more in the week's best space pictures.

Published March 5, 2011