"September A Soyuz"

THE DAY September 28, 1996: A Soyuz at Mir - Credit: STS-79, Space Station Mir, NASA - Explanation: Pictured above is a three person Russian Soyuz capsule with wing-like solar panels extended, joined to the Mir space station. In Russian soyuz means "union" and indeed one of the milestones achieved by a Soyuz spacecraft was an orbital union with a US Apollo command module during the first international space mission (Apollo-Soyuz) in 1975. More... Less