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Credit & Copyright:
STS-79 Crew,
NASA
Explanation:
Thinking about spending the Holiday Season in
low Earth orbit?
Astronaut John Blaha and his cosmonaut colleagues
Valeri Korzun and Alexander Kaleri are
doing just that onboard the Russian Mir spacestation.
You can
e-mail them Seasons Greetings.
Blaha replaced Shanon Lucid
as a Mir resident during
the STS-79 mission flown
by the Space Shuttle Atlantis
and is scheduled to be
replaced by Jerry Linenger when Atlantis makes another shuttle run to Mir
during the
STS-81 mission.
The Mir is seen here 200 miles above the Earth
as the sun sets following the latest Atlantis undocking.
NASA shuttle flights to the Mir
are part of the
Phase 1 program for construction of
the International Space Station.
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