Soyuz spacecraft

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.