
S94-34099 (16 June 1994) --- Crewmembers for two of the joint Space Shuttle/Mir missions pose for photographs after fielding questions from the press at Johnson Space Center (JSC). Left to right are cosmonaut Nikolai M. Budarin, astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar, cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyov, Gennadiy M. Strekalov and Vladimir N. Dezhurov; and astronaut Norman E. Thagard. In a precedent-setting flight, Thagard will be launched with Dezhurov and Strekalov to Russia?s Mir Space Station early next year for a three-month mission, designated as Mir 18. Then in late May, as the assignment of STS-71, the Space Shuttle Atlantis will rendezvous with Mir to pick up the Mir 18 crew and transfer cosmonauts Solovyov and Budarin to the station for the Mir 19 mission. STS-71 mission specialist Dunbar is training as Thagard?s backup.
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