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Backdropped by the blackness of space, this forward nadir view of the International Space Station was photographed during the flyaround by the Space Shuttle Discovery following the undocking of the two spacecraft. Discovery pulled away from the complex at 2:24 a.m. (CDT) on August 6, 2005. Visible in the frame is the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 (PMA2), the S0 truss, Destiny laboratory module, the Quest airlock, a Soyuz spacecraft docked to Pressurized Mating Adapter 1 (PMA1), the FGB / Zarya module and its solar arrays, Pirs Docking Compartment (DC1) and part of the Zvezda Service module.