This is a photo of a Soyuz approaching the ISS.
1) That's a space ship flying to a space ship.
2) That is an incredibly detailed photograph. From space.
3) I just pushed a few buttons and posted some text that will allow you to view the picture. Well, not even the picture but a digital representation of the picture (Ceci n'est pas une pipe).
Oh, I'm reminded that I've nearly finished a fantabulous book about the ISS: Too Far From Home by Chris Jones who is, apparently, a sports writer. The book gets slammed hard on Amazon by a couple of space geeks who think that everything written about the space program has to be an engineering treatise, but this is an excellent book. It's primarily about the guys that were crewing the ISS when Columbia broke up. It gave me an affectation that I'm going to start using starting now: the astronauts fly up to station. Not "the" station. It's not a thing. It's a place. I suspect that it has as much to do with the lack of definite articles in Russian as it does with anything else, but it still makes you sound like you're in the know. Like calling the CIA, just "CIA" and the CIA director, "DCI".
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