STS-89 and Mir 24 crews at the hatch opening

S89-E-5367 (28 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows astronaut Terrence W. Wilcutt, commander, minutes after Docking Module (DM) hatch door closure. Wilcutt has a microphone speaker box in his left hand, for communication to NASA ground controllers in Houston, Texas. The closing of the hatch ended the eighth Shuttle/Mir joint docking activities between the Space Shuttle and Russia's Mir Space Station. The STS-89 crew dropped of astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas, replacing astronaut David A. Wolf as cosmonaut guest researcher. Thomas will be the last American astronaut to serve a tour aboard Mir. Astronaut Wolf is returning aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, making it's first Mir docking mission. This ESC view was taken on January 28, 1998, at 22:39:32 GMT.