STS-71 Joint Space Shuttle Atlantis/Mir

Official crew portrait for mission STS-71 ((front) Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Dezhurov, American NASA astronaut Robert L Gibson, Latvian-born Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev, (back) American NASA astronaut Norman Thagard, Russian cosmonaut Gennadiy Strekalov (1940-2004), American NASA astronaut Gregory J Harbaugh, American NASA astronaut Ellen S Baker, Charles J Precourt, American NASA astronaut Bonnie J Dunbar, and Russian ) ahead of Space Shuttle Mission STS-71, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, 5th March 1995. STS-71 (27th June to 7th July 1995) is the first mission to see a space shuttle (Atlantis) dock with Russian space station Mir, models of both vehicles are on the table beside Dezhurov. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)