STS071-310-001 (27 June-7 July 1995) --- Cosmonauts Nikolai M. Budarin (left) and Anatoly Y. Solovyev are seen on the space shuttle Atlantis' flight deck. Not long after this picture was made, the two Mir-19 crew members bade farewell to two other cosmonauts and six NASA astronauts who returned to Earth aboard Atlantis. Solovyev, Mir-19 commander, and Budarin, Mir-19 flight engineer, will stay onboard Russia's Mir Space Station for continuing research.

View of the Mir 19 commander Anatoly Solovyev and flight engineer Nikolai Budarin preparing to close the hatch to the docking module which leads to the Mir space station.

s94-34935 --- Portrait of Russian cosmonaut and Mir 19 commander Anatoly Solovyev in civilian clothes.

STS071-763-007 (27 June-7 July 1995) --- Onboard the docked Soyuz spacecraft, cosmonauts Anatoly Y. Solovyev (left) and Nikolai M. Budarin, Mir 19 commander and flight engineer, respectively, conduct a checkout of communications systems. The two represent the new in a change of guard aboard Russia's Mir Space Station, as Mir-18 astronaut Norman E. Thagard and two Mir-18 cosmonauts prepare to come back to Earth with the STS-71 crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Later in the joint mission, Solovyev and Budarin backed the Soyuz spacecraft away from the Mir/Atlantis tandem to allow for the space shuttle Atlantis to undock with its crew of six astronauts and two cosmonauts aboard.

Cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, mission commander for Mir 19, responds to a question from a news media representative. Crew members for two of the joint Space Shuttle/Mir missions met the press at JSC.

STS071-117-032 (4 July 1995) --- In the docking vestibule of Russia's Mir Space Station, cosmonauts Anatoly Y. Solovyev, Mir-19 commander, and Nikolai M. Budarin, Mir-19 flight engineer, smile at the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-71 crew prior to hatch closing. Later, the two manned the Soyuz vehicle as it was temporarily moved from the Mir complex for Atlantis' undocking.

S94-47071 (Nov. 1994) --- In a Shuttle mockup trainer at the Johnson Space Center (JSC), two Russian cosmonauts assigned to Russia's Mir 19 mission check out hardware like that to be flown onboard NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis, the spacecraft that will take the pair to their orbital destination. Anatoly Y. Solovyev, mission commander; and Nikolai M. Budarin (nearest camera), flight engineer, practice using the Recumbent Seating System (RSS). RSS has been manifest to be carried on the Space Shuttle Atlantis for the STS-71 mission. When Atlantis docks with the Mir space station in 1995, a NASA astronaut and two other Russian cosmonauts, who will have been onboard Mir for a long duration stay, will join the STS-71 crew for the return to Earth. Solovyev and Budarin will remain aboard Mir, to return to Earth later in one of Russia's Soyuz spacecraft.

STS071-118-007 (27 June - 7 July 1995) --- Onboard the Russia?s Mir Space Station Mir Base Block, cosmonauts Anatoly Y. Solovyev (left) and Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Mir 19 and 18 commanders, respectively, exchange information about their research tasks. The two represent a change of guard aboard Mir, as Dezhurov prepares to come back to Earth with the STS-71 crew aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. Nikolai M. Budarin and Gennadiy M. Strekalov - cosmonaut/flight engineers making the same exchange -- are out of frame.

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.

S94-34942 (27 May 1994) --- This is a portrait of (left to right) Bonnie J. Dunbar, Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, and Nikolai M. Budarin in civilian clothes. Dunbar is mission specialist for STS-71, and alternate crew member for Mir 18. Solovyev is commander for Mir 19, and Budarin is the flight engineer for that mission.

Various views of activities surrounding the Mir 24 crew's preparation for an intravehicular activity (IVA) in the Mir space station. Views include: Mir 24 crew in the Orlan suits in the Soyuz spacecraft (012-3,016). Commander Anatoly Solovyev climbs out of his suit in the Soyuz (014-5). Solovyev floats into the Base Block module (017). Underexposed views of Solovyev (left) and flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov in the Soyuz (018-20). Interior views of the airlock with IVA hardware (oxygen for suits) in view (021-2). Mir 24 crewmember climbing into his suit with his back to the camera (023). View 024 is blank. View 025 is of a Mir viewing portal. Portrait of Vinogradov in his suit, wearing his helmet (026). Guest researcher Michael Foale in the Soyuz, wearing his pressure suit (027-8). Interior views of the Soyuz (029-32). Solovyev and Vinogradov in the Base Block (033).

Cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov (center), Mir 18 mission commander, gets his blood pressure taken by Dr. Michael J. Barrett, flight surgeon. Cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev (right), Mir 19 mission commander, looks on. Solovyev, Dezhurov, along with their respective flight engineers and a number of other cosmonauts and astronauts participating in the joint program, were in Houston, Texas, to prepare for their upcoming missions.

STS071-122-013 (27 June-7 July 1995) --- Inside the space shuttle Atlantis' Spacelab Science Module, the crewmembers of STS-71, Mir-18 and Mir-19 pose for the traditional inflight portrait. For individual identification, hold picture vertically with socked feet of Anatoly Y. Solovyev at bottom center. Clockwise from Solovyev are astronauts Gregory J. Harbaugh, Robert L. Gibson, Charles J. Precourt, Nikolai M. Budarin, Ellen S. Baker, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Norman E. Thagard, and cosmonauts Gennadiy M. Strekalov (at angle) and Vladimir N. Dezhurov.

STS071-S-072 (4 July 1995) --- This view of the space shuttle Atlantis still connected to Russia's Mir Space Station was photographed by the Mir-19 crew on July 4, 1995. Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, Mir-19 commander and flight engineer, respectively, temporarily undocked the Soyuz spacecraft from the cluster of Mir elements to perform a brief fly-around. They took pictures while the STS-71 crew, with Mir-18's three crew members aboard, undocked Atlantis for the completion of this leg of the joint activities. Solovyev and Budarin had been taxied to the Mir Space Station by the STS-71 ascent trip of Atlantis.

STS071-122-021 (27 June-7 July 1995) --- Three astronauts and a cosmonaut who went into space aboard the space shuttle Atlantis check out the core module living quarters on Russia's Mir Space Station. Sporting a new Houston Rockets T-shirt near frame center is cosmonaut Anatoly Y. Solovyev, Mir-19 mission commander. Astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar, STS-71 mission specialist, floats into the frame at lower left. Beyond Solovyev are astronauts Ellen S. Baker and Gregory J. Harbaugh, mission specialists.

Crew members for two joint Space Shuttle/Mir missions greet the press during a break in medical operations training at JSC. Left to right are Nikolai M. Budarin, Anatoly Y. Solovyev, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Gennadiy M. Strekalov, Norman E. Thagard and Vladimir N. Dezhurov.

STS071-S-075 (4 July 1995) --- This view of the space shuttle Atlantis beginning its move away from Russia's Mir Space Station was photographed by the Mir-19 crew on July 4, 1995. Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, Mir-19 commander and flight engineer, respectively, temporarily undocked the Soyuz spacecraft from the cluster of Mir elements to perform a brief fly-around. They took pictures while the STS-71 crew, with Mir-18's three crew members aboard, undocked from Atlantis for the completion of this leg of the joint activities. Solovyev and Budarin had been taxied to the Mir Space Station by the STS-71 ascent trip of Atlantis.

S89-E-5171 (24 Jan 1998) --- Just seconds after hatch opening, the Space Shuttle Endeavour and Russian Mir Space Station commanders are reunited. At left is cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev. Astronaut Terrence W. (Terry) Wilcutt's (right) crew includes astronaut Andrew S.W. Thomas who will remain aboard Mir for several months' research as the final U.S. astronaut cosmonaut guest researcher to do so, as the United States and Russia prepare for the onset of the era of International Space Station (ISS). Solovyev was a member of the STS-71 crew which marked the first of the nine planned NASA-Mir link-ups. The photograph was taken with a 35mm Electronic Still Camera (ESC) at 22:35:59 GMT, January 24, 1998.

STS071-S-074 (4 July 1995) --- This view of the space shuttle Atlantis during its move away from Russia's Mir Space Station was photographed by the Mir-19 crew on July 4, 1995. Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, Mir-19 commander and flight engineer, respectively, temporarily undocked the Soyuz spacecraft from the cluster of Mir elements to perform a brief fly-around. They took pictures while the STS-71 crew, with Mir-18's three crew members aboard, undocked from Atlantis for the completion of this leg of the joint activities. Solovyev and Budarin had been taxied to the Mir Space Station by the STS-71 ascent trip of Atlantis.

STS071-104-029 (27 June-7 July 1995) --- Cosmonaut Nikolai M. Budarin, Mir-19 flight engineer, is pictured on Russia's Mir Space Station with two Russian space suits. These are for Intravehicular (IVA) wear and are not the suits designed for Extravehicular Activity (EVA). Budarin remained aboard Mir with cosmonaut Anatoly Y. Solovyev, Mir-19 commander, when the three Mir-18 crewmembers and the five STS-71 astronauts later undocked the space shuttle Atlantis from Mir and returned to Earth.

S89-E-5304 (26 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows the STS-89 and Mir-24 crews posing for their traditional in-flight crew portrait. They are left to right, astronaut David A. Wolf, former cosmonaut guest researcher; cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, Mir-24 flight engineer; astronaut Terrence W. Wilcutt, STS-89 commander; cosmonaut Salizan S. Sharipov, payload specialist representing the Russian Space Agency (RSA); cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, Mir-24 commander; astronaut James F. Reilly, mission specialist; mission specialist Bonnie J. Dunbar, payload commander; astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas (top right), cosmonaut guest researcher; astronaut Joe F. Edwards, Jr., pilot; and astronaut Michael P. Anderson, mission specialist. This marks the eighth Shuttle/Mir docking mission. Thomas, replacing Wolf as cosmonaut guest researcher, will be the last American astronaut to serve a tour onboard Mir. Crew members Solovyev and Dunbar worked together during STS-71, the first Shuttle/Mir docking mission. This ESC view was taken on January 26, 1998, at 15:45:43 MET.

S89-E-5236 (26 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, Mir-24 commander, and Andrew S. W. Thomas, cosmonaut guest researcher, embracing after Thomas' second Sokol suit test. Thomas had to have modifications made to his Russian Sokol spacesuit shortly after his arrival to the Russian Mir Space Station. Thomas, replacing astronaut David A. Wolf as cosmonaut guest researcher, will be the last American astronaut to serve a tour onboard the Mir. This ESC view was taken on January 26, 1998, at 12:55:07 MET.

STS089-335-016 (22-31 Jan. 1998) --- Salizhan S. Sharipov (center) signs his name on a long-lived Mir roster on the Base Block of Russia's Mir Space Station, while Mir and shuttle crew members look on. From the left are Andrew S. W. Thomas (back to camera), Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, David A. Wolf, Pavel V. Vinogradov, Joe F. Edwards Jr., (partially obscured) and Bonnie J. Dunbar. Sharipov, representing the Russian Space Agency (RSA), is a mission specialist on the STS-89 crew. Photo credit: NASA

S94-47079 (18 Oct 1994) --- Astronaut Robert L. Gibson, (arms folded, near center) STS-71 mission commander, joins several crew mates during a briefing preceding emergency egress training in the Systems Integration Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Astronauts Bonnie J. Dunbar and Gregory J. Harbaugh (partially obscured), along with cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, all mission specialists, are attired in training versions of the partial pressure launch and entry space suits. Astronaut Charles J. Precourt, pilot, is in center foreground, and Ellen S. Baker, mission specialist, is in left background.

S89-E-5237 (26 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows the new Mir-24 crew members posing onboard the Russian Mir Space Station. They are from left to right, cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, flight engineer; cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, commander; and astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas, cosmonaut guest researcher. Thomas, replacing astronaut David A. Wolf as cosmonaut guest researcher, will be the last American to serve a tour onboard the Mir. This ESC view was taken on January 26th, 1998, at 12:55:31 MET.

S89-E-5175 (24 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar, payload commander, shortly after Shuttle/Mir docking activities began. "Deja-vu" may have come to the mind of Dunbar as she boarded Russia's Mir Space Station. Dunbar was a member of the STS-71 crew -- the first United States aggregation to visit Mir -- along with cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, Mir-24 commander. The ESC view was taken at 22:37:23 GMT, on January 24, 1998.

STS071-704-091 (4 July 1995) --- Russia's Soyuz spacecraft is backdropped against the darkness of space, as photographed from the space shuttle Atlantis. Onboard Soyuz were Mir-19 cosmonauts Anatoly Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin. The 70mm photograph was recorded during the Space Shuttle Atlantis' undocking operations from the Russian Mir Space Station on July 4, 1995. Soyuz was temporarily undocked and backed away from the Mir/Atlantis tandem as the Space Shuttle Atlantis prepared to separate from the linkup. Six NASA astronauts and two cosmonauts were onboard Atlantis as it separated from Mir, which will now become the home for the two-member Mir-19 crew.

S89-E-5354 (28 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows the Mir-24 crew having fun with the STS-89 crew just prior to the closing of the Docking Module (DM) hatch. The closing of the hatch will bring an end to the eighth Shuttle /Mir joint docking activities. The Mir-24 crew members are from the left - astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas, cosmonaut guest researcher (looking through camera); cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, flight engineer (wearing communications headset); and cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, commander (with the stand off cross or docking target in his hand). Thomas, replacing astronaut David A. Wolf as cosmonaut guest researcher, will be the last American astronaut to serve a tour aboard Russia's Mir Space Station. This ESC view was taken on January 28, 1998, at 22:28:29 GMT.

S89-E-5307 (26 Jan. 1998) --- This photo, taken on Jan. 26, 1998, shows various crewmembers posing onboard the Russia's Mir space station, during the eighth Shuttle/Mir docking mission. They are left to right, cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, Mir-24 flight engineer; cosmonaut Salizhan S. Sharipov, STS-89 payload specialist representing the Russian Space Agency (RSA); cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, Mir-24 commander, wearing the space helmet; and astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas, cosmonaut guest researcher. Thomas, replacing astronaut David A. Wolf (out frame) as cosmonaut guest researcher, will be the last American astronaut to serve a tour onboard the Mir.

STS071-S-003 (27 June 1995) --- At the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Launch Pad 39A, the 100th United States human space launch gets underway at 3:32:19 p.m. (EDT) on June 27, 1995. Onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis are five NASA astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts. In two days, the crew will join up with astronaut Norman E. Thagard and two Russian cosmonauts who have been onboard Russia's Mir Space Station since March of this year. That pair - Vladimir N. Dezhurov and Gennadiy M. Strekalov - will return to Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis with Thagard and the short-term United States visitors, while Anatoly Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin - the two cosmonauts launched today aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis - will remain aboard Mir for a longer tour of duty.

S89-E-5359 (28 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, Mir-24 commander, peeking through the Docking Module (DM) hatch one last time to bid his astronaut friends farewell, just moments before final hatch closure. The hatch closing brings an end to the eighth Shuttle/Mir joint docking activities. The STS-89 crew, onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, dropped off astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas to replace astronaut David A. Wolf, as cosmonaut guest researcher. Thomas will be the last American astronaut to serve a tour aboard the Russian Mir Space station. This ESC view was taken on January 28, 1998, at 22:30:54 GMT.

STS071-S-005 (27 June 1995) --- At the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Launch Pad 39A, the 100th United States human space launch gets underway at 3:32:19 p.m. (EDT) on June 27, 1995. Onboard Atlantis are five NASA astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts. In two days, the crew will join up with astronaut Norman E. Thagard and two Russian cosmonauts who have been onboard Russia's Mir Space Station since March of this year. That pair - Vladimir N. Dezhurov and Gennadiy M. Strekalov - will return to Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis with Thagard and the short-term visitors, while Anatoly Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin - the two cosmonauts launched today aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis - will remain aboard Mir for a longer tour of duty.

STS089-714-066 (22-31 Jan. 1998) --- A series of 70mm still shots was recorded of Russia's Mir Space Station from the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Endeavour following undocking of the two spacecraft. A large blanket of white clouds cover thousands of square miles in this oblique panorama. Onboard the Mir at this point were cosmonaut Anatoly Y. Solovyev, commander; Pavel V. Vinogradov, flight engineer; and Andrew S. W. Thomas, cosmonaut guest researcher. Onboard Endeavour were Terrence W. (Terry) Wilcutt, commander; Joe F. Edwards Jr., pilot; Bonnie J. Dunbar, payload commander; mission specialists David A. Wolf (former cosmonaut guest researcher), Michael P. Anderson, James F. Reilly, and Salizhan S. Sharipov representing Russian Space Agency (RSA). Photo credit: NASA

S89-E-5352 (28 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows the commanders' farewell handshake, thus bringing the eighth Shuttle/Mir joint activities to an end. The commanders, cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, Mir-24 commander (on the left); and astronaut Terrence W. Wilcutt, STS-89 commander, are posing in the Docking Module (DM) between the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the Russian Mir Space Station. The Shuttle crew dropped off astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas and picked up astronaut David A. Wolf, cosmonaut guest researcher onboard Mir since September 1997. Thomas will be the last American astronaut to serve a tour aboard the Mir as a cosmonaut guest researcher. This ESC view was taken on January 28, 1998, at 22:27:56 GMT.

S89-E-5355 (28 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows the Mir-24 crew saying their farewells to the STS-89 crew, minutes before hatch closing. The closing of the Docking Module (DM) hatch will bring the eighth Shuttle/Mir joint docking activities to a end. The Mir-24 crew members are from the left - astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas, cosmonaut guest researcher; cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, flight engineer; and cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, commander. Thomas, replacing astronaut David A. Wolf, will be the last American astronaut to serve a tour aboard the Russian Mir Space Station as a cosmonaut guest researcher. This ESC view was taken on January 28, 1998, at 22:28:50 GMT.

This image of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis, with cargo bay doors open showing Spacelab Module for the Spacelab Life Science and the docking port, was photographed from the Russian Mir Space Station during STS-71 mission. The STS-71 mission performed the first docking with the Russian Mir Space Station to exchange crews. The Mir 19 crew, cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin, replaced the Mir 18 crew, cosmonauts Valdamir Dezhurov and Gernady Strekalov, and astronaut Norman Thagard. Astronaut Thagard was launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft in March 1995 for a three-month stay on the Mir Space Station as part of the Mir 18 crew. The Orbiter Atlantis was modified to carry a docking system compatible with the Mir Space Station. The Orbiter also carried a Spacelab module for the Spacelab Life Science mission in the payload bay in which various life science experiments and data collection took place throughout the 10-day mission.

STS089-714-072 (22-31 Jan. 1998) --- A series of 70mm still shots was recorded of Russia's Mir Space Station from the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Endeavour following undocking of the two spacecraft. Onboard the Mir at this point were cosmonaut Anatoly Y. Solovyev, commander; Pavel V. Vinogradov, flight engineer; and Andrew S. W. Thomas, cosmonaut guest researcher. Onboard Endeavour were Terrence W. (Terry) Wilcutt, commander; Joe F. Edwards Jr., pilot; Bonnie J. Dunbar, payload commander; mission specialists David A. Wolf (former cosmonaut guest researcher), Michael P. Anderson, James F. Reilly, and Salizhan S. Sharipov, representing Russian Space Agency (RSA). Photo credit: NASA

S95-04323 (22 Feb 1995) --- In keeping with Russian tradition, astronaut Norman E. Thagard (seated, left), guest researcher, watches as Vladimir N. Dezhurov (seated, center), signs the diary of the late Yuriy A. Gagarin, the first Russian cosmonaut, as his Mir 18 crew mates and the subsequent Mir crewmembers look on. Cosmonauts Dezhurov, mission commander, and Gennadiy M. Strekalov (seated right, partially obscured), flight engineer, have been training with Thagard in both the United States and Russia for the past several months. Watching are, standing left to right, astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar, Thagard?s alternate crew member; and cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, Mir 19 mission commander, and Nikolai M. Budarin, flight engineer.

S94-47218 (28 Oct 1994) --- A number of Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut listen to a briefing on launch and landing emergency situations during a training session in the Systems Integration Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Scheduled to launch aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis with the STS-71 crew (in orange suits, left to right) are Nikolai M. Budarin, Mir 19 flight engineer; Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, Mir 19 mission commander; and Bonnie J. Dunbar, STS-71 mission specialist. The three are flanked by cosmonauts Gennadiy M. Strekalov (seated, second left) and Vladimir N. Dezhurov (seated, right foreground), flight engineer and commander, respectively, for the Mir-18 mission, who will return from a Russian Mir Space Station stay in Atlantis along with the two-way crew members of the STS-71 mission. Alexsandr F. Poleshchuk (seated, far left) is a Mir-reserve crew member.

S89-E-5358 (28 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows the Mir-24 cosmonauts making last minute preparations for the closing of the Docking Module (DM) hatch door. The cosmonauts are Pavel V. Vinogradov, flight engineer (wearing communication headset in left background), and Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, commander (right foreground). The closing of the hatch ends the eighth Shuttle/Mir joint docking activities. The STS-89 crew brought astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas to replace astronaut David A. Wolf as cosmonaut guest researcher. Thomas will be the last American astronaut to serve a tour aboard the Russian Mir Space Station. This ESC view was taken on January 28, 1998, at 22:30:07 GMT.

STS089-716-019 (22-31 Jan. 1998) --- A series of 70mm still shots was recorded of Russia's Mir Space Station from the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Endeavour following undocking of the two spacecraft. Among the medium close-ups of Mir, this survey view was provided during a "fly-around" by Endeavour. Onboard the Mir at this point were cosmonaut Anatoly Y. Solovyev, commander; Pavel V. Vinogradov, flight engineer; and Andrew S. W. Thomas, cosmonaut guest researcher. Onboard Endeavour were Terrence W. (Terry) Wilcutt, commander; Joe F. Edwards Jr., pilot; Bonnie J. Dunbar, payload commander; mission specialists David A. Wolf (former cosmonaut guest researcher), Michael P. Anderson, James F. Reilly, and Salizhan S. Sharipov representing Russian Space Agency (RSA). Photo credit: NASA

S94-47050 (28 Oct 1994) --- Crew members for the joint Space Shuttle/Russian Mir Space Station missions assemble for an informal portrait during a break in training in the Systems Integration Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). In front (left to right) are astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar; cosmonauts Aleksandr F. Poleshchuk, Yuriy I. Onufriyenko, Gennadiy M. Strekalov and Vladimir N. Dezhurov. In the rear are astronaut Gregory J. Harbaugh; cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, and astronauts Charles J. Precourt, Robert L. Gibson, Ellen S. Baker and Norman E. Thagard. In a precedent-setting flight, Thagard will be launched as a guest researcher along with Dezhurov, commander, and Strekalov, flight engineer, to Russia's Mir Space Station early next year for a three month mission, designated as Mir 18. Then in late spring, as the assignment of STS-71, the Space Shuttle Atlantis will rendezvous with Mir to pick up the Mir 18 crew and transfer cosmonauts Solovyov and Nikolai M. Budarin to the station for the Mir 19 mission. STS-71 mission specialist Dunbar is training as Thagard's backup.

STS089-391-004 (22-31 Jan. 1998) --- Ten astronauts and cosmonauts form a human oval in order to fit into a single frame, onboard Russian Mir Space Station?s Base Block, the traditional in-flight crew portrait. In conventional position mode (from the left) are David A. Wolf, STS-89 mission specialist and former cosmonaut guest researcher; Pavel V. Vinogradov, Mir-24 flight engineer; Terrence W. Wilcutt, shuttle commander; Anatoly Y. Solovyev, Mir-24 commander; and mission specialist Bonnie J. Dunbar, payload commander. Demonstrating the freedom of microgravity, head-to-head with bottom row, are (from the left) Salizhan S. Sharipov, mission specialist representing Russian Space Agency (RSA); James F. Reilly, mission specialist; and Joe F. Edwards Jr., pilot. At 90-degree angle poses are Andrew S. W. Thomas, mission specialist and current cosmonaut guest researcher (top); and Michael P. Anderson, mission specialist. Photo credit: NASA