NASA Space Shuttle - Russian Mir Space Station Joint Program Patch
Emblem of the NASA Space Shuttle and Mir Space Station joint program. From 1994 to 1998, American astronauts spent nearly 1,000 days living and working in orbit with Russian cosmonauts aboard the Mir Space Station.
American space shuttles rendezvoused ten times with Russia's space station. The Shuttle-Mir Program prepared the way for the International Space Station and began an era of cooperation and exploration, rarely seen in human history.
View of the Space Shuttle Atlantis connected to Russia's Mir Space Station. Photographed by the Mir-19 crew on July 4, 1995. Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin temporarily unparked the Soyuz spacecraft from the cluster of Mir elements to perform a fly-around.
