... The X-Ray Moon . ... It shows three distinct regions: a bright X-ray sky, a bright part of the Moon, and a relatively dark part of the Moon. ... Pictured above is a three person Russian Soyuz capsule with wing-like solar panels extended, joined to the Mir space station. In Russian soyuz means "union" and indeed one of the milestones achieved by a Soyuz spacecraft was an orbital union with a US Apollo command module during the first international space mission (Apollo-Soyuz) in 1975. ...