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One of the most moving moments…as we drew further away…were
[Mir’s running] lights flashing, fading slowly. That
was…an emotional moment, because I knew that
it would be the last time I would see it. Ever.
Andrew Thomas, STS-91, June 8, 1998
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Further details on each of the Shuttle missions to Mir can be found in Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961–2006, Tim Furniss and David J. Shayler with Michael D. Shayler, Springer-Praxis, 2007, and indeed in several other works listed in the Bibliography.
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Shayler, D.J. (2017). Shuttle-Mir 1994–1998. In: Linking the Space Shuttle and Space Stations. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49769-3_7
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