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Americans Join Russian Space Flight in Historic Launch
A U S astronaut Norman Thagard and two Russian cosmonauts launched from Baikonur aboard a Soyuz to dock with Mir. The joint mission aims at a long term space partnership including four shuttle to Mir flights and the construction of an international space station starting 1997.
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Baikonur
Kazakhstan
NASA
U.S
Norman Thagard
Earth
Tommy
Holloway
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Moscow
Central Asia
Thagard
Vladimir Dezhurov
Gennady Strekalov
Mir
Atlantis
Mars
Space Shuttle