Enthusiasm shows on the faces of STS-71 crew members as they complete one more leg of the journey into space. Arriving at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility from Johnson Space Center, Houston, are (from left) Mission Specialist Bonnie J. Dunbar; Mir 19 Flight Engineer Nikolai M. Budarin; STS-71 Pilot Charles J. Precourt; and Mir 19 Mission Commander Anatoly Solovyev. The countdown clock is already ticking toward a liftoff on June 23 of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on Mission STS-71, slated to become the first docking between the U.S. Shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir.
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Enthusiasm shows on the faces of STS-71 crew members as they complete one more leg of the journey into space. Arriving at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility from Johnson Space Center, Houston, are (from left) Mission Specialist Bonnie J. Dunbar; Mir 19 Flight Engineer Nikolai M. Budarin; STS-71 Pilot Charles J. Precourt; and Mir 19 Mission Commander Anatoly Solovyev. The countdown clock is already ticking toward a liftoff on June 23 of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on Mission STS-71, slated to become the first docking between the U.S. Shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir.