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> The Mir station seen in june 1998.

The Mir station seen in june 1998.

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-mir08-31002

Image Size 300 DPI: 58 * 58 cm

Russia's Mir space station during the final fly-around of the members of the fleet of NASA's shuttles. Seven crew members, including Andrew Thomas, were aboard the Discovery and two of his former cosmonaut crewmates remained aboard Mir. Thomas ended up spending 141 days in space on this journey,including time aboard the Space Shuttles Endeavour and Discovery, which delivered and retrieved him to and from the Mir. Jun 12 1998.

Keywords for this photo:

1998 - ATMOSPHERE - CLOUD - CORE MODULE - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - HORIZON - KRISTALL - KVANT - KVANT 2 - LIMB - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - MIR - MIR-25 - MODULE - POSTER - PRIRODA - RUSSIA - SOLAR PANEL - SPACE - SPACE STATION - SPEKTR - STS-91 -