1995 NASA Press Photo Of STS-71 Onboard MIR View ( 8x10 Kodak) For Sale

This vintage NASA photograph (ID: STS071-763-007) features Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev (left/foreground in red) and Nikolai Budarin (right/background) onboard a docked Soyuz spacecraft during the historic STS-71 mission in JuneJuly 1995.

The Mission: STS-71 was a milestone space shuttle flight (flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis) that achieved the first-ever docking of a U.S. space shuttle with the Russian space station Mir.

The Cosmonauts: Anatoly Solovyev served as the Mir-19 commander and Nikolai Budarin as the flight engineer, joining the station crew during the joint mission.

The Setting: The photo captures the tight quarters of the Soyuz interior, with communications gear and strapped cargo modules visible in the background.

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