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Mir station with damaged solar panel. 10/1997

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-mir07-30006

Date

2013-08-06

Russia's Mir Space Station backdropped against a cloud-covered Earth photographed during a fly-around by the Space Shuttle Atlantis following the conclusion of joint docking activities between the Mir-24 and STS-86 crews. One of the solar array panels on the Spektr Module shows damage incurred during the impact of a Russian unmanned Progress re-supply ship with collided with the space station on June 25, 1997.