Puzzle Description:

This will be the view from the Cupola of Node 3 after it has been placed on the space station during the next NASA mission STS-130. More in comments.

#1: Teresa K (fasstar) on Jan 29, 2010 [SPOILER]

The STS-130 logo is actually a patch designed by the Endeavor crew The main goal of the mission is to deliver Node 3 and the Cupola to the International Space
Station. Node 3, named "Tranquility," will contain life support systems enabling continued human presence in orbit aboard the space station. The shape of the patch represents the Cupola, which is the windowed robotics viewing station, from which astronauts will have the opportunity not only to monitor a variety of station operations, but also to study
our home planet.

The logo-patch can be seen here, with crew names around the edge:
http://come-over.to/images/STS-130Logo.jpg

My brother is a space scientist, one of those who work in Mission Control in Houston. He sent me the press release that inspired these two puzzles. Here is the info that pertains to this puzzle:

"Endeavour's mission will include three spacewalks and the delivery of the Tranquility node, the final module of the U.S. portion of the space station. Tranquility will provide additional room for crew members and many of the space station's life support and environmental control systems. Attached to the node is a cupola, which houses a robotic control station and has seven windows to provide a panoramic view of Earth, celestial objects and visiting spacecraft. After the node and cupola are added, the orbiting laboratory will be about 90 percent complete."

Way cool perspective! Nice job.

Thank you!

Thanks for the puzzle and image. It almost gave me vertigo looking down at earth from space like that.

Thanks, Brian.

Very neat! It took me a second to see it with the right perspective. The earth is very pretty.

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