Posts: 3529 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001
posted 10-02-2021 03:22 AM
Cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyov and Nikolai Budarin are about to re-dock their Soyuz TM-21 to the Mir space station, after they had temporarily undocked and backed away to photograph the departure of Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-71. While the Soyuz was flying free, a Mir computer malfunctioned and the station was becoming unstable and started to drift. Following a hasty re-docking, Solovyov and Budarin replaced computer hardware to regain attitude control of Mir. This photo was taken from Atlantis about half an hour after it had undocked.
David C Member
Posts: 1298 From: Lausanne Registered: Apr 2012
posted 10-02-2021 04:03 AM
Mir, no shortage of challenges to overcome.
Beautiful shot.
Jurg Bolli Member
Posts: 1102 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Nov 2000
posted 10-02-2021 09:17 AM
MIR was an amazing project, and this is a beautiful picture.
randy Member
Posts: 2486 From: West Jordan, Utah USA Registered: Dec 1999
posted 10-02-2021 10:29 AM
If it's not one thing, it's another.