I will definitely throw this info to them so they are aware of the risks . Thanks ! <| sep |> from Wikipedia This view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis still connected to Russia ' s Mir Space Station was photographed by the Mir 19 crew on July 4 , 1995 . Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y . Solovyev and Nikolai M . Budarin , Mir 19 Commander and Flight Engineer , respectively , temporarily undocked the Soyuz spacecraft from the cluster of Mir elements to perform a brief flyaround . They took pictures while the STS 71 crew , with Mir 18 ' s three crew members aboard , undocked Atlantis for the completion of this leg of the joint activities . Solovyev and Budarin had been taxied to the Mir Space Station by the STS 71 ascent trip of Atlantis .