Exeter cathedral, with its vaulted ceiling and an astronomical clock dating from 1484, is two hundred and twenty miles south-west from here. Travel the same short distance vertically upwards and you’ll see another magnificent man-made object, completed recently after 13 years’ painstaking construction: the International Space Station.
Fifteenth century seekers after truth pointed their inquiring spires towards the heavens. Twenty-first century seekers cast their net wider and higher, but with the same determination to understand the wonders of God’s creation.
Enjoy this first and final NASA photograph of the ISS with the earth below and a space-shuttle docked in its parking bay, taken from a passing Soyuz spacecraft.
