NASA Administrator Dan Goldin (far left) talks to STS-71 Mission Commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson (second from left); Pilot Charles Precourt; and Mission Specialists Bonnie Dunbar and Gregory Harbaugh, as Russian Space Agency Director General Yuri Koptev (right) looks on. Goldin was on hand to welcome the crew as they conducted the traditional walkaround of the orbiter Atlantis, parked on Runway 15 of the Shuttle Landing Facility, after an end-of-mission landing at 10:54:36 a.m. EDT. STS-71 featured the first docking between the U.S. Space Shuttle and Russian Space Station Mir.
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NASA Administrator Dan Goldin (far left) talks to STS-71 Mission Commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson (second from left); Pilot Charles Precourt; and Mission Specialists Bonnie Dunbar and Gregory Harbaugh, as Russian Space Agency Director General Yuri Koptev (right) looks on. Goldin was on hand to welcome the crew as they conducted the traditional walkaround of the orbiter Atlantis, parked on Runway 15 of the Shuttle Landing Facility, after an end-of-mission landing at 10:54:36 a.m. EDT. STS-71 featured the first docking between the U.S. Space Shuttle and Russian Space Station Mir.