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Crewmembers of STS-71, Mir-1
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Crewmembers of STS-71, Mir-18 and Mir-19 Pose for Inflight Picture |
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Inside the Spacelab Science Module, the crewmembers of STS-71, Mir- 18, and Mir-19 pose for the traditional inflight picture. An important mission for the human spaceflight program, STS-71 was the 100th U.S. human space launch from Cape Canaveral at Kennedy Space Center. Internationally significant as well, STS-71 was the first U.S. Space Shuttle- Russian Space Station Mir docking and joint on-orbit operation. The Space Shuttle/Mir combination was also the largest space platform ever assembled and put into orbit. (For individual identification, hold picture vertically with the socked feet of Anatoly Y. Solovyev at bottom center). Clockwise from Solovyev are Gregory J. Harbaugh, Robert L. Gibson, Charles J. Precourt, Nikolai M. Budarin, Ellen S. Baker, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Norman E. Thagard, Gennadiy M. Strekalov (angle) and Vladimir N. Dezhurov. |
| Date |
06/27/1995 |
| NASA Center |
Johnson Space Center |
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STS-71 Crew Portrait
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STS-71 Crew Portrait |
| Date of Image |
1995-03-05 |
| Full Description |
The crew assigned to the STS-71 mission included (front left to right) Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Mir 18 crew download, Robert L. Gibson, commander, and Anatoly Y. Solovyev, Mir 19 crew upload. On the back row, left to right, are Norman E. Thagard, Mir 18 crew download, Gennadiy Strelalov, Mir 18 crew download, Gregory J. Harbaugh, mission specialist, Ellen S. Baker, mission specialist, Charles J. Precourt, pilot, Bonnie J. Dunbar, mission specialist, and Nikolai Budarin, Mir 19 crew upload. Launched aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on June 27, 1995 at 3:32:19.044 pm (EDT), the STS-71 mission marked many firsts in human space flight history. It was the first U.S. Space Shuttle-Russian Space Station Mir docking and joint on-orbit operations, and the first on-orbit change out of a shuttle crew. In addition, it was the largest spacecraft ever in orbit and was the 100th U.S. human space launch conducted from the Cape. |
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STS-71 Dunbar, Budarin, Prec
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STS-71 Dunbar, Budarin, Precourt and Solovyev at SLF |
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Enthusiasm shows on the faces of STS-71 crew members as they complete one more leg of the journey into space. Arriving at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility from Johnson Space Center, Houston, are (from left) Mission Specialist Bonnie J. Dunbar, Mir 19 Flight Engineer Nikolai M. Budarin, STS-71 Pilot Charles J. Precourt, and Mir 19 Mission Commander Anatoly Solovyev. The countdown clock is already ticking toward a liftoff on June 23 of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on Mission STS-71, slated to become the first docking between the U.S. Shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir. |
| Date |
06.20.1995 |
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STS-71 Mission Specialist Bo
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STS-71 Mission Specialist Bonnie J. Dunbar arrives at KSC |
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STS-71 Mission Specialist Bonnie J. Dunbar arrives at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility from Johnson Space Center, Houston. Dunbar and the rest of the STS-71 flight crew are ready for the scheduled June 23 liftoff of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on an historic mission to complete the first U.S. docking with the Russian Space Station Mir. Two Russian cosmonauts on Atlantis will transfer to Mir, and the three crew members currently on Mir will return to Earth in the orbiter. Dunbar served as the backup to one of those crewmembers, U.S. astronaut Dr. Norm Thagard, and completed extensive cosmonaut training in Russia with Thagard. |
| Date |
06.20.1995 |
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Flight Crew at Pad 39A, Term
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Flight Crew at Pad 39A, Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test |
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U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts training for the STS-71 mission aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis pose for a group portrait in the Launch Pad 39A white room, beside the orbiter crew hatch. They are participating in the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT), a dress rehearsal for launch. In back row, clockwise from left, are Pilot Charles J. Precourt, Mission Specialists Bonnie J. Dunbar and Gregory J. Harbaugh, Mission Commander Robert L. "Hoot" Gibson, and cosmonaut Anatoly Y. Solovyev. In front row, from left, are alternate cosmonaut Yuri I. Onufrienko, cosmonaut Nikolai M. Budarin, Mission Specialist Dr. Ellen S. Baker and alternate cosmonaut Yuri V. Usachev. The five astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts, Solovyev and Budarin, will lift off on Shuttle Atlantis for a rendezvous and docking with the Russian Mir Space Station. The two cosmonauts will transfer to Mir as crew members of the Mir 19 mission, and Atlantis will pick up the two Mir 18 cosmonauts and astronaut Dr. Norman E. Thagard for the return trip to Earth. Thagard and the two Mir 18 cosmonauts have been on the Russian space station since mid-March. STS-71 is targeted for launch no earler than June 22. |
| Date |
05.24.1995 |
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STS-71 astronauts training i
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STS-71 astronauts training in Russia |
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Astronauts Norman E. Thagard and Bonnie J. Dunbar in cosmonaut space suits by the Soyuz TM simulator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russian Soyuz |
| Date Taken |
1994-09-20 |
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STS-71 astronauts training i
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STS-71 astronauts training in Russia |
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Astronauts Norman E. Thagard and Bonnie J. Dunbar by the Mir Space Station simulator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with |
| Date Taken |
1994-09-20 |
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STS-71 astronauts training i
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| Title |
STS-71 astronauts training in Russia |
| Description |
Astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar in a cosmonaut space suit in the Training Simulator Facility at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Norman E. Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russian Soyuz sp |
| Date Taken |
1994-09-20 |
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STS-71 astronauts training i
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| Title |
STS-71 astronauts training in Russia |
| Description |
Astronauts Norman E. Thagard and Bonnie J. Dunbar in cosmonaut space suits in the Training Simulator Facility at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russ |
| Date Taken |
1994-09-20 |
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STS-71 astronauts training i
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| Title |
STS-71 astronauts training in Russia |
| Description |
Astronauts Norman E. Thagard and Bonnie J. Dunbar in cosmonaut space suits in the Training Simulator Facility at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russ |
| Date Taken |
1994-09-20 |
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