Fwd: Space History Photo: Astronaut Gibson Shakes Hands with Cosmonaut Dezhurov

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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: December 19, 2013 10:44:02 AM CST
To: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Subject: FW: Space History Photo: Astronaut Gibson Shakes Hands with Cosmonaut Dezhurov

First Shuttle docking mission to Mir and "Hoot" giving the handshake. Mission in 1995, but we stated working with Russians on Shuttle Mir in the fall 1992.

Gary

 

 

 

Space History Photo: Astronaut Gibson Shakes Hands with Cosmonaut Dezhurov

From NASA   |   December 19, 2013 09:44am ET

Astronaut Robert Gibson of STS-71 shakes hands with Cosmonaut Vladimir Dezhurov of Mir-18 in June of 1995. Credit: NASA. View full size image

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, Astronaut Robert L. Gibson, STS-71 mission commander, shakes the hand of cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Mir-18 commander. The historic handshake took place on June 29, 1995, two and a half weeks prior to the 20th anniversary of a similar in-space greeting between cosmonauts and astronauts participating in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP).

On July 17, 1975, astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, NASA's ASTP commander, greeted his counterpart, Aleksey A. Leonov, in a docking tunnel linking the Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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