
S89-E-5352 (28 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows the commanders' farewell handshake, thus bringing the eighth Shuttle/Mir joint activities to an end. The commanders, cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, Mir-24 commander (on the left); and astronaut Terrence W. Wilcutt, STS-89 commander, are posing in the Docking Module (DM) between the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the Russian Mir Space Station. The Shuttle crew dropped off astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas and picked up astronaut David A. Wolf, cosmonaut guest researcher onboard Mir since September 1997. Thomas will be the last American astronaut to serve a tour aboard the Mir as a cosmonaut guest researcher. This ESC view was taken on January 28, 1998, at 22:27:56 GMT.
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March 4, 1998
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