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Images by Vladimir N. Dezhurov and Robert L. Gibson
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Astronaut Gibson Shakes Hand
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Astronaut Gibson Shakes Hands with Cosmonaut Dezhurov |
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Astronaut Robert L. Gibson, STS-71 mission commander, shakes the hand of cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Mir-18 commander. The historic handshake took place two and a half weeks prior to the 20th anniversary of a similar in-space greeting between cosmonauts and astronauts participating in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). On July 17, 1975, astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, NASA's ASTP commander, greeted his counterpart, Aleksey A. Leonov, in a docking tunnel linking the Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft. |
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06/29/1995 |
| 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 |
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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 preflight crew portra
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STS-71 preflight crew portrait |
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Crew members for the STS-71 mission and the related Mir missions assembled for a crew portrait at JSC. In front are, left to right, Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Robert L. Gibson and Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, mission commanders for Mir-18, STS-71 and Mir-19, respecti |
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1995-03-05 |
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