A Soyuz at Mir
Explanation:
Pictured above is a three person
Russian Soyuz capsule
with wing-like solar panels extended, joined to the
Mir space station.
In Russian soyuz means "union" and indeed one of the milestones achieved by
a Soyuz spacecraft was an orbital union with a
US Apollo command module during the
first international space mission
(Apollo-Soyuz) in 1975.
The Soyuz TM spacecraft are specially modified
for use with the Mir as ferries for
cosmonauts and
astronauts
and also as lifeboats, should the need
arise. This image is from an electronic still camera used by
the crew of the
Space Shuttle Atlantis during their latest
Mir visit to pick up
astronaut Shannon Lucid
and drop off John Blaha.
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