MCC Guest Viewing Program of Pope Benedict XVI's call to the ISS/STS-134 crew.

MCC Guest Viewing Program of Pope Benedict XVI's call to the ISS/STS-134 crew. JSC invited high level guests from the Hou/Gal Archdiocese, including the Cardinal, to the event. Photo Date: May 21, 2011. Location: Building 30s - WFCR Viewing Room. Photographer: Robert Markowitz.

JSC2011-E-046605 (21 May 2011) --- His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, speaks to a group of guests in the viewing room of the Mission Control Center at NASA?s Johnson Space Center following a special call from Pope Benedict XVI to the STS-134 and Expedition 27 crews on the International Space Station. The event was conducted from The Vatican at 6:11 a.m. (CDT) on May 21, 2011, and aired live on NASA television. Photo credit: NASA

Photographer ROBERT MARKOWITZ