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STS-89 and Mir 24 crews at the hatch opening
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S89-E-5359 (28 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, Mir-24 commander, peeking through the Docking Module (DM) hatch one last time to bid his astronaut friends farewell, just moments before final hatch closure. The hatch closing brings an end to the eighth Shuttle/Mir joint docking activities. The STS-89 crew, onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, dropped off astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas to replace astronaut David A.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSTS-89 and Mir 24 crews at the hatch opening. NASA/JSC, 1998-03-04. Public domain. ID: s89e5359.
