16 Feb. 2011 - Expedition 26 crewmember Paolo Nespoli on board the International Space Station took this photograph of the Ariane 5 rocket (faint squiggly vertical form in the midst of darkness above the clouds), just after lift off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. On board the Ariane rocket is ESA’s second Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler. The unmanned supply ship will deliver critical supplies and reboost the space station during its almost four-month mission.