STS-71/Mir/Spacelab Mission Update

Abstract

Live footage shows the crewmembers of STS-71 and Mir 18, Commander Robert L. Gibson, Pilot Charles J. Precourt, Mission Specialists Ellen S. Baker, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Gregory J. Harbaugh, MIR-19 crew upload Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin, and MIR-18 crew download Norman E. Thagard, Vladimir Dezhurov, and Gennadiy Strekalov, on board the Russian Space Station Mir and the Atlantis spacecraft complex. The ten-member crew is shown participating in an interview. An animation of the undocking and fly-around of the Atlantis spacecraft is presented. Also shown is the commander of the STS-79 mission, discussing the undocking of the Atlantis Spacecraft.