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Atlantis Docked to Mir, 1995. Creator: NASA.

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Atlantis Docked to Mir, 1995. This view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis still connected to Russia's Mir Space Station was photographed by the Mir-19 crew on July 4, 1995. Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, Mir-19 Commander and Flight Engineer, respectively, temporarily undocked the Soyuz spacecraft from the cluster of Mir elements to perform a brief fly-around. They took pictures while the STS-71 crew, with Mir-18's three crew members aboard, undocked Atlantis for the completion of this leg of the joint activities. Solovyev and Budarin had been taxied to the Mir Space Station by the STS-71 ascent trip of Atlantis.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Space

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HRM21B20_255

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20,6Mo (707,0Ko) / 25,4cm x 20,3cm / 3000 x 2400 (300dpi)

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