1. Mir schematic at Machinostroyenia (Moscow, 1991)

2. Spacecraft at Machinostroyenia (Moscow, 1991)

3. Dennis Tito (front row, second from right) with Russian dinner guests, in a brief respite from their (Russian’s) posts at the barricades at the Moscow White House during the 1991 coup attempt. Moscow, Tuesday, August 20, 1991.

4. Proton booster rockets at Khrunichev (Moscow, 1991)

5. December 2, 1990 launch of the Soyuz TM-11 mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a 175-day joint Soviet-Japanese mission that would dock with the Mir orbital space station

6. View of the Mir Space Station

(from NASA <http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/rsa/pics.html>)

7. Soyuz just after launch

(from NASA <http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/rsa/pics.html>)

8. Shuttle docking with the Mir

(from NASA <http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/rsa/pics.html>)