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Astronauts Akers and Wilcutt relax on the Atlantis flight deck
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Astronauts Akers and Wilcutt relax on the Atlantis flight deck

NASA / JSC · 1996-11-01 · photograph (digital archive)

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STS079-354-016 (20 Sept. 1996) --- Astronaut Thomas D. Akers, mission specialist, spends a few moments of his off-duty time aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis in a rare relaxed posture. Akers is on the aft flight deck, looking toward overhead windows (out of frame) through which he could see several of the components of Russia's Mir Space Station, docked for several days to Atlantis. Later, during a post-flight presentation to an assembly of co-workers in Houston, astronaut William F.

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Credit lineAstronauts Akers and Wilcutt relax on the Atlantis flight deck. NASA/JSC, 1996-11-01. Public domain. ID: sts079-354-016.
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