Labels:bulletin board | earth | poster | reckoner | sky | window OCR: STS-79 Day The rendezvous and docking went flawlessly as Atlantis Commander 1!8 Readdy flew the orbiter manually through the final ,.000 feet Docking occurred within seconds of the pre- planned time and flight controllers reported that only slight oscillations were felt through the Orbiter Docking System as the two space- craft together. Within hours 0 the hatch opening members John Blaha and Shannon Lucid formally swapped places before going to bed with Blaha be coming member of the Mir-22 crew and Lucid joining the STS-79 crew to wrap up 179 days as member of the Mir station Atlantis approaches Mir Blaha joins Mir 22 Commander Valery Korzun and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri on Mir for the next four months He will be replaced by Astronaut Jerry Linenger scheduled to arrive on Atlantis ...
