EARTH ORBIT - 04 July 1995 - This view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis still connected to Russia's Mir Space Station was photographed by the Mir-19 crew
EARTH ORBIT - 04 July 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. The Mir station suffered many problems but led the way to the development of the International Space Station - Photo: Geopix/NASA
Size: 3000px × 2400px
Location: Space Shuttle Atlantis / Mir Space Station
Photo credit: © Geopix / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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