S114-E-6370 (3 August 2005) --- While perched on a Space Station truss, astronaut Soichi Noguchi, STS-114 mission specialist representing Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), acts as observer and communication relay station between fellow spacewalker Stephen K. Robinson (out of frame) and astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during the mission’s third session of extravehicular activities (EVA). A portion of the thermal protection tiles on Discovery’s underside is visible at lower left. The image was photographed by Robinson using a digital camera.