STS-88, Joining ISS Zarya and Unity, 1998
In December 1998, the crew of Space Shuttle Mission STS-88 began construction of the International Space Station, joining the Unity node to the Russian-built Zarya module. The crew carried a large-format IMAX camera from which this picture was taken. - With Unity in place, Astronaut Nancy Currie begins positioning Zarya for mating. STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour, and took the first American module, the Unity node, to the station. The 7 day mission was highlighted by the mating of the US built Unity node to the Functional Cargo Block (Zarya module) already in orbit, and three spacewalks to connect power and data transmission cables between the Node and the FCB. Zarya, built by Boeing and the Russian Space Agency, was launched on a Russian Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in November 1998.
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