✦ Today's cosmos
Mir Over New Zealand Credit:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day · October 26, 1996
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via NASA APOD
◆ What you're looking at
The Russian space station Mir
was photographed last month
high above New Zealand.
Before returning with record-breaking astronaut Shannon Lucid,
the space shuttle Atlantis crew took this breathtaking view
from the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Atlantis had just undocked from Mir
and was preparing to return to Earth.