Mir 22 and STS-81 crews gather after rendezvous and docking

STS081-E-5424 (15 Jan. 1997) --- Left to right, cosmonaut Valeri G. Korzun, Mir-22 mission commander; and astronauts Peter J. K. (Jeff) Wisoff (holding 70mm camera) and John E. Blaha are pictured soon after hatch opening. Blaha had just joined the NASA crew, having served as a cosmonaut guest researcher aboard Russia's Mir Space Station since mid September 1996. The photograph was taken with an Electronic Still Camera (ESC), which was used throughout the 10-day mission to downlink current photographs of the crews'joint ativities.