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Cool Mir Pics!
posted: 11:06 am ET
06 April 2000
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mir_pics_000406 The still below comes from a Russian space agency video broadcast at the Mission Control Center near Moscow and shows Flight Engineer Alexander Kalery (left) and Commander Sergei Zaletin aboard Mir on Thursday, April 6. 
Three people hold Mir's future in their hands. From left to right (below): MirCorp President Jeffrey Manber, MirCorp investor Chrinjeev Kathuria and RKK Energia President Yuri Semenov. 
Among those who watched mission events unfold Thursday, during the docking, were Alexander Lazutkin, (below, left), a flight engineer who survived the most harrowing accident in Mir's history in 1997 -- the collision of a Progress spacecraft with the station -- and actor Vladimir Steklov, who was to be a third crewmember on Mir's 28th main mission but was cut from it due to funding problems. 
Located in the cross hairs below: the docking site as seen by the Mir cosmonauts minutes before docking with the station Thursday, April 6. 
The still below comes from a Russian space agency video broadcast live at the Mission Control Center near Moscow and shows Commander Sergei Zaletin (at front) and Flight Engineer Alexander Kalery in the Soyuz capsule en route to Mir on Tuesday, April 4. 
A wall at the Mission Control center in Moscow (shown below) featured several displays of information on the morning of Tuesday, April 4 -- including images of Zaletin and Kalery (upper left), a diagram of the Soyuz flight path to Mir (bottom left), a schedule of prelaunch procedures (center), a diagram of the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site (upper right) and diagram of communications systems (lower right). 
The shot below of Commander Zaletin in uniform was taken by SPACE.com's Moscow contributing correspondent, Yuri Karash a couple weeks before the April 4 launch to Mir. 
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