
STS081-E-5009 (12 Jan. 1997) --- Astronaut Peter J. K. (Jeff) Wisoff, mission specialist, helps carry out tasks of readying the Space Shuttle Atlantis for almost ten days in space, securing supplies with a piece of gaffer's tape. Currently, Wisoff is accompanied by five crew mates, among whom one - astronaut Jerry M. Linenger - will be exchanged in a few days for John E. Blaha, who has been aboard Russia's Mir Space Station for several months, as a cosmonaut guest researcher. Docking of Atlantis with Mir is scheduled for the middle of the week. The scene was recorded with an Electronic Still Camera (ESC) and later downlinked to flight controllers in Houston, Texas.
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January 12, 1997
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