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.