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Crews in Mir station. 06/1998

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-mir08-31004

Date

2006-10-22

The STS-91 crew and the Mir-25 cosmonauts currently manning Russia's space station pose for the final joint inflight NASA-Mir portrait in the core module. From l.-r. : Valery Ryumin, Wendy Lawrence, Charles Precourt, Andrew Thomas, Talgat Musabayev, Janet Kavandi, Dominic Gorie, Nikolai Budarin and Franklin Chang-Diaz. Ryumin represents the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. Later the Discovery made the final undocking of an American Shuttle from the Mir complex, leaving Musabayev and Budarin, the current Mir crewmembers, behind. Jun 12 1998.