Astronaut Hadfield and Mir 20 crewmembers on Atlantis aft flight deck

STS074-335-027 (12-20 Nov 1995) --- Astronaut Chris A. Hadfield joins two Mir-20 cosmonauts as they share a unique view through windows on the aft flight deck of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Cosmonauts Yuriy P. Gidzenko (center), Mir-20 mission commander, and Sergei V. Avdeyev (right), flight engineer, along with the European Space Agency?s (ESA) Thomas Reiter (out of frame), cosmonaut researcher, have been onboard Russia?s Mir Space Station since September 5, 1995. At the time this photo was taken, the Space Shuttle Atlantis is docked with Mir Space Station, which is the subject of interest by the three international spectators here. With five NASA astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, the STS-74 flight began with a November 12, 1995, launch from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and ended with landing there on November 20, 1995. The STS-74 crew members were astronauts Kenneth D. Cameron, mission commander; James D. Halsell Jr., pilot; William S. McArthur Jr., Jerry L. Ross and Canadian astronaut Hadfield, all mission specialists. Joint activities on the Mir Space Station and the Space Shuttle Atlantis ended on November 18, 1995, when the two spacecraft separated.