Sunlight glinting off the solar panels of the international space station can make it appear to flare. These images
were shot by an amateur astronomer in England.

A skywatcher in the Czech Republic
shot this time-lapseimage of a flare reflected from the space station.

On a clear evening -- usually within a couple hours of sunrise or sunset -- many orbiting Earth satellites can be seen with the naked eye.

Space shuttle Atlantis astronaut Pat Forrester works Sunday during a spacewalk, which lasted more than six hours, outside the space station.

Atlantis is on a mission to the space station to expandand improve facilities.

Forrester, seen here in Atlantis' flight deck on Friday, and Steven Swanson helped set up a new pair of solar wings during Sunday's spacewalk.

Astronauts James Reilly, left, and Danny Olivas go on a space walk Friday. Atlantis was cleared to depart the space station on Tuesday.

A piece of the shuttle's thermal blanket peeled back during last week's launch, but was stapled back down.

Swanson, left, holds a sample blanket Thursday as Olivas practices a repair method.

Russian cosmonauts got crucial space station computers up and running Friday, four days after they crashed.

Station commander Fyodor Yurchikhin waits for the huttle crew's arrival last week.

Atlantis does a back flip above Earth as it approaches the station.

Atlantis blasted off June 8 from Cape Canaveral, Fla.  It was NASA's first space shuttle flight of the year.
Sources: Space.com, AP