Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Human Spaceflight Collection
General Description:
STS-76 Shuttle Mission Imagery
Description:
STS076-341-002 (22-31 March 1996)--- As astronaut Kevin P. Chilton looks on, cosmonaut Yury I. Onufrienko gives a thumbs up gesture, signifying successful docking operations between Russia's Mir Space Station and the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The Mir-21 and STS-76 commanders, respectively, earlier headed up the in-space effort which made possible the third link-up of Mir and Atlantis in Earth-orbit. With the delivery of astronaut Shannon W. Lucid to the Mir, the Mir-21 crew grew from two to three, as the mission specialist temporarily became a cosmonaut guest researcher. She is to spend approximately 140 days on Mir before returning to Earth.
image id:
Photo-sts076-341-002
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Space Shuttle Orbiter
facet_what:
Russian Mir Space Station
facet_where:
Russia
facet_when:
31 March 1996
facet_when_year:
1996
UID:
SPD-SPFLT-Photo-sts0 76-341-002
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