real not real

As the crew departed the International Space Station in early October, they did a fly-around, something not done since the shuttle missions. They acquired some amazing imagery. But one really struck me, reminding me of one of the iconic images from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Fiction:

Non-fiction:

Now, admittedly, it's not an apples to apples comparison on a number of levels.

It's the imagery that impressed me, the composition, the similarities in the framing.

Copyrights and credits by the respective parties.

See the whole set at SpaceflightNow.

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NASA made their own comparison a few years back...