Mission to Mir Page #3
- Year:
- 1997
- 40 min
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Claudie Andre-Deshays
from the French Space Agency...
a lot of German astronauts
getting ready to fly on the MIR.
Folks from many different countries
training to fly with the Russians.
You get a chance to socialize
and compare experiences.
Anatoly and his family live
in a comfortable apartment in Star City.
I have lived in Star City for 20 years.
I have a wife and two sons,
and I have a dog.
Anatoly and Nik will train
for their shuttle launch in Texas.
Now it's their turn for some culture shock.
When we first came to Texas,
it was quite unusual for us...
that we were so popular.
Every day we were asked
to a social occasion...
and this was very pleasant for us.
This is the home of Astronaut Ellen Baker.
She and crewmate Bonnie Dunbar...
will join Charlie and the two cosmonauts
aboard Atlantis...
the first shuttle to dock with MIR.
And the handoff has been completed.
This is the first mission
to exchange Russian and American crews.
It'll bring back Norm Thagard,
the first American to live on MIR.
Norm and his cosmonaut crewmates
have been four months in space.
10, 9, 8, 7, go for main engines.
- Wow!
- Is that cool or what?
The pilot has to control
eight parameters simultaneously...
to make this a successful docking.
You have two 100-ton vehicles
that are going to collide...
and you can cause great destruction
if you don't do that exactly right.
If it is not in the right position.'
left, right, up, down, in or out...
it will not mate correctly.
But even more complex,
we had to combine our position...
our orientation, our speed
and our time of arrival...
so we would be over Russia...
for ground communications with Moscow
plus or minus two minutes.
It shows about...
three feet.
Fifty seconds.
The module looks pretty good here.
Forty seconds.
It's two feet.
Twenty-five seconds.
And we have overlap.
. 1106.
Eight inches.
- . 1 or.07?
- 106.
Four inches.
We have capture.
Mission Commander Hoot Gibson
opens the hatch.
Just the kind of thing
that was totally unexpected.
You open the hatch
"No, you guys are upside down."
Congratulations, Space Shuttle Atlantis,
Space Station MIR.
After 20 years,
our spacecraft are docked in orbit again.
Anatoly, being the veteran cosmonaut
that he was...
had been there many times before.
For Nikolai, it had to be very exciting
because this was his first visit to the MIR.
The crew that was operating the station
when we arrived was...
the Mission Commander,
Vladimir Dezhurov...
and the "boort engineer,"
or flight engineer, Gennady Strekalov.
The base block
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