STS-89 and Mir 24 crews at the hatch opening

S89-E-5355 (28 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows the Mir-24 crew saying their farewells to the STS-89 crew, minutes before hatch closing. The closing of the Docking Module (DM) hatch will bring the eighth Shuttle/Mir joint docking activities to a end. The Mir-24 crew members are from the left - astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas, cosmonaut guest researcher; cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, flight engineer; and cosmonaut Anatoliy Y. Solovyev, commander. Thomas, replacing astronaut David A. Wolf, will be the last American astronaut to serve a tour aboard the Russian Mir Space Station as a cosmonaut guest researcher. This ESC view was taken on January 28, 1998, at 22:28:50 GMT.