In the view of the Space Station from Atlantis as Atlantis moved away the commentary from Mission Control described other ships currently docked with ISS, apparently at the same time as Atlantis was docked there.
There were 2 Russian Soyuz ships, the one that brought Mike Fossum, one of this mission's space walkers, and one that had brought Ron Garon, the other space walker, and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. Each of them also brought some Russian astronauts. I think there might have been another ship too, I'm not sure. One of the docked ships had also brought supplies.
Suddenly looking at the cylindrical shape with all the solar panel arrays and the docked ships sticking out, it was a vision straight out of Deep Space Nine, or maybe Babylon 5, of a busy space station, a functioning spaceport. It's real. It's here now. It's not just science fiction anymore!
Wow!
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