STS79-E-5090
June 3, 2011
Cosmonaut Valery G. Korzun, Mir-22 commander, greets his American counterpart - astronaut William F. Readdy in the tunnel connecting the Space Shuttle Atlantis to Russia's Mir Space Station, during Flight Day 4. This mission marks the fourth such reunion involving astronauts and cosmonauts during the Shuttle era and the fifth overall, going back to the historic Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in 1975.
Topics:
Valery Korzun, Manned spacecraft, Soyuz programme, Alexey Leonov, Shuttle–Mir Program, Spaceflight, Soyuz, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Commander, Russia's MIR space station, Astronaut, Russia, cosmonaut, William F. Readdy
