Rendezvous and docking between Atlantis and Mir space station

STS074-332-029 (15 Nov 1995) --- A 35mm camera aimed through the Space Shuttle Atlantis? aft windows captured rendezvous and docking operations with the Space Shuttle Atlantis and Russia?s Mir Space Station in Earth-orbit. The new Docking Module (DM), carried into space by the Atlantis is about to contact Kristall on the cluster of Mir components. The flight began with a November 12, 1995, launch from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and ended with landing there on November 20, 1995. The crew members were astronauts Kenneth D. Cameron, mission commander; James D. Halsell, Jr., pilot; William S. McArthur, Jr., Jerry L. Ross and Canadian astronaut Chris A. Hadfield, all mission specialists. The Mir-20 crew is composed of cosmonauts Yuriy P. Gidzenko, commander; and Sergei V. Avdeyev, engineer; along with the European Space Agency?s (ESA) Thomas Reiter, cosmonaut researcher. Joint activities on the Mir and the Space Shuttle Atlantis ended on November 18, 1995, when the two spacecraft separated.