On June 29 1995, Atlantis successfully docked with Mir, becoming the first US spacecraft to dock with a Russian spacecraft since the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. It was the first time Ten people were in a single spacecraft at the same time.
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Ah that brief point in the mid 90s when everything seemed possible
Who or what captured the fourth photo? That’s an amazing shot.
That fourth shot is awesome. It always blows my mind when there is a shot from space and there isn’t a continent in the view. Just vast ocean.
Mir Crew: Bring blue jeans! We can all wear matching blue jeans!
NASA: Standard issue space space pants. Matching. Blue.
the future we ALL lost 😞- will just have to be satisfied with For All Mankind I guess 🤷🏻♂️
Shot #2: sometimes centering the person’s head in the middle of the frame *is* good composition!
Just a bunch of madlads fuckin about in space.
if you weren’t there or hadn’t been born yet, please don’t take these images lightly. this came about just a few years after the US and USSR were locked in a nuclear stalemate, and there were many times during the Cold War when it felt like the survival of the human race hung on a razor-thin precipice. things like this gave us hope that real peace and progress was possible, and i truly believe one day we can get back there. a better world, though it seems out of our reach some days, is possible.
Amazing pic. Too bad we can’t all just get along.. today, that is.. 😕
As a claustrophobic person, I feel like space travel is not yet for me. I could probably be an “astronaut” in the same way Katie Perry is, but I would just call myself a “Space Rider”. An hour in a room I could do, months in rooms the size of a porta-jon… NO!