STS-76, Mir Space Station, 1996
STS-76 view of Mir Space Station. Backdropped against a massive array of clouds over the South Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea, Russia's Mir Space Station is seen from the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The two spacecrafts were in the process of making their third docking in Earth-orbit. With the subsequent delivery of astronaut Shannon W. Lucid to the Mir, the Mir-21 crew grew to three, as the mission specialist quickly became a cosmonaut guest researcher. She spent approxomately 140 days on Mir before returning to Earth.
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