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The Space Shuttle Docks with
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The Space Shuttle Docks with Mir |
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Hundreds of kilometers above the Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950622.html ]'s surface, the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950812.html ] docks with the Russian Space Station Mir [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950915.html ]. The photograph was taken by Nikolai Budarin from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on July 4, 1995. During this mission [ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-71/mission-sts-71.html ] astronauts answered questions from school students over amateur radio [ http://www.nasa.gov/sarex/sarex.html ], and performed life science experiments [ http://mission.jsc.nasa.gov/sts-71/payloads/science.html ] aboard the SpaceLab [ http://mission.jsc.nasa.gov/sts-71/payloads/spacelab.html ]. The SpaceLab experiments [ http://mission.jsc.nasa.gov/sts-71/payloads/lshome.html ] were designed to understand how the Russian Space program combats the effects on the human body of the long-durations in space. |
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The Space Shuttle Docked wit
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The Space Shuttle Docked with Mir |
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Before there was the International Space Station [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020423.html ], the reigning orbiting spaceport was Russia's Mir. Pictured above [ http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001315.html ] in 1995, the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis [ http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/atlantis.html ] docked with the segmented Mir [ http://www.cosmicimages.com/Mir/index.html ]. During shuttle mission STS-71 [ http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/shuttle/missions/sts-71/mission-sts-71.html ], astronauts answered questions from school students over amateur radio [ http://www.arrl.org/hamradio.html ] and performed science experiments [ http://www.sciserv.org/isef/ ] aboard Spacelab [ http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/sts71/sts71.stm ]. The Spacelab experiments helped to increase understanding of the effects of long-duration space flights [ http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/news/expandnews.cfm?id=988 ] on the human body [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/ ]. Last year, after 15 years of successful service, the decaying Mir space station [ http://www.russianspaceweb.com/mir_close_calls.html ] broke up as it entered [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010323.html ] the Earth's atmosphere [ http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/earth/atmosphere.html ]. |
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