Astronaut preparing food. Astronaut Dominic Gorie on board the space shuttle Discovery (mission STS-91). He is preparing to add water to a rehydratable food packet. The Shuttle is on its way to dock with the Mir space station. This mission lasted from 2-12 June 1998. This was the last in a series of nine Shuttle-Mir unions. It was the only time that Discovery was used to link up with Mir . The purpose of the mission was to retrieve astronaut Andrew S.W. Thomas and return him to Earth. Gorie was joined on the mission by four astronauts,namely,Charles J. Precourt,Frankilin Chenz-Diaz,Wendy Lawrence and Janet Kavandi and cosmonaut Valeriy Ryumin | |
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