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Opening the hatch and welcome ceremony in the Mir Space Station
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STS076-344-013 (24 March 1996)--- Continuing an in-space tradition, astronaut Kevin P. Chilton (right), mission commander, shakes hands with cosmonaut Yury I. Onufrienko, Mir-21 commander, in the tunnel connecting the Space Shuttle Atlantis and Russia's Mir Space Station. A short time earlier two crews successfully pulled off the third hard-docking of their respective spacecraft. The image was made with a 35mm camera.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineOpening the hatch and welcome ceremony in the Mir Space Station. NASA/JSC, 1996-03-24. Public domain. ID: sts076-344-013.
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