NASA STI Program | STS-81 Flight Day 8 @NASASTIProgram | Uploaded March 2013 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
On this eighth day of the STS-81 mission, the flight crew, Cmdr. Michael A. Baker, Pilot Brent W. Jett, Mission Specialists, John M. Grunsfeld, Marsha S. Ivins, Peter J.K. Wisoff, and John Blaha, bid farewell to Jerry Linenger and cosmonauts of Mir. Prior to hatch closure, the astronauts and cosmonauts conduct a formal farewell ceremony in the Mir Core Module. They then field questions from Russian and U.S. reporters in a joint news conference. Commander Mike Baker, Pilot Brent Jett and Mission Specialists Jeff Wisoff, John Grunsfeld, Marsha Ivins and John Blaha say goodbye to Mir 22 Commander Valery Korzun, Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri and the newest Mir crewmember, astronaut Jerry Linenger. The hatches on the two spacecraft are closed. Released Jan. 1997.
On this eighth day of the STS-81 mission, the flight crew, Cmdr. Michael A. Baker, Pilot Brent W. Jett, Mission Specialists, John M. Grunsfeld, Marsha S. Ivins, Peter J.K. Wisoff, and John Blaha, bid farewell to Jerry Linenger and cosmonauts of Mir. Prior to hatch closure, the astronauts and cosmonauts conduct a formal farewell ceremony in the Mir Core Module. They then field questions from Russian and U.S. reporters in a joint news conference. Commander Mike Baker, Pilot Brent Jett and Mission Specialists Jeff Wisoff, John Grunsfeld, Marsha Ivins and John Blaha say goodbye to Mir 22 Commander Valery Korzun, Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri and the newest Mir crewmember, astronaut Jerry Linenger. The hatches on the two spacecraft are closed. Released Jan. 1997.
