In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a technical rendition of the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked to the Kristall module of the Russian Mir Space Station is displayed. The configuration ...
STS-71: Robert L. Gibson, Charles J. Precourt, Ellen S. Baker, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Gregory J. Harbaugh (USA); MIR 18: Vladimar Dezhurov, Gennadiy Strekalov (Russia ...
Fuelled by the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the space race saw the two nations compete to achieve superior spaceflight capability. The end of the Cold War, however, saw the Soviet ...