Atlantis-Mir photo

[agentgonzo]

How was this photo taken? EVA?

 

[astrosammy]

I think by a Progress or Soyuz.

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Yes, Soyuz:

This view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis still connected to Russia's Mir Space Station was photographed by the Mir-19 crew on July 4, 1995. Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, Mir-19 Commander and Flight Engineer, respectively, temporarily undocked the Soyuz spacecraft from the cluster of Mir elements to perform a brief fly-around. They took pictures while the STS-71 crew, with Mir-18's three crew members aboard, undocked Atlantis for the completion of this leg of the joint activities. Solovyev and Budarin had been taxied to the Mir Space Station by the STS-71 ascent trip of Atlantis.

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php...ocked_to_Mir.jpg&filetimestamp=20050826203605

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

That photo shows the STS-71 undocking. It was taken from a Soyuz spacecraft, that was approaching Mir to dock.

I'm not quite sure why they had both a Shuttle undocking, and a Soyuz docking at the same time - maybe they just did it for the cool photo op!

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Aah, I see - they just temporarily undocked for the photo op.

I think they should do the same for the last ever Shuttle-ISS undocking (currently planned to be STS-134). It would be a nice picture to end the Space Shuttle program on!

 

[DaveS]

That photo shows the STS-71 undocking. It was taken from a Soyuz spacecraft, that was approaching Mir to dock.

I'm not quite sure why they had both a Shuttle undocking, and a Soyuz docking at the same time - maybe they just did it for the cool photo op!

It is indeed the STS-71/Atlantis undocking. The photo shows Atlantis with the Spacelab module in the payload bay just prior to undocking from the Kristall module.

The Mir-19 crew had undocked in their Soyuz prior to the orbiter undocking to capture some photos and videos of the orbiter undocking.

I don't remember if this was because of PR or engineering reasons, but I suspect the earlier.

 

[astrosammy]

I'll try that out in Orbiter. Two Line Elements should be available at Celestrak. And I'll try out the same with ISS.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

If you install the Mir addon by Thorton, a scenario is included which shows nearly the exact same view as the picture discussed below.

Mir addon by Thorton:
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=2536"]Mir Space Station v.1.3[/ame]

 

[astrosammy]

Great! I still have it on my disc, time to install it again and take a look

 

[kino_astroboy]

Video of the STS-71 un-docking:

 

[Arrowstar]

Great video!

 

[ar81]

I think it was taken from Atlantis in external view...:lol::rofl: