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June 29, 1995: Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir during STS-71. Its seven crew members join the three already aboard the station, bringing the total to six astronauts and four cosmonauts.
Twenty-five years ago, this summer, six U.S. astronauts and four Russian cosmonauts circled the Earth together in a remarkable exercise of co-operation between two former superpowers and ideological foes. In June 1995, Space Shuttle Atlantis and her crew of seven performed the first docking between an American spacecraft and a Russian space station, linking up
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