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Atlantis Meets Mir

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ATLANTIS
Space Shuttle Atlantis made the historic June 29, 1995 docking — one of eleven missions it would eventually fly to Mir and later the ISS.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
MIR
Mir means 'peace' — and 'world' — in Russian, a fitting name for the station that became a shared home between former rivals in space.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HATCH
The two spacecraft met through a specially designed docking module; when the hatch swung open, astronauts and cosmonauts floated through to greet each other for the first time in orbit.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DOCKING
The docked pair remained linked for nearly five days, a milestone that proved two very different spacecraft — built on opposite sides of the Cold War — could work as one.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Atlantis Mir docking word search — free and large-print — revisits the June 29, 1995 handshake that joined two worlds above Earth.

About Atlantis Meets Mir

On June 29, 1995, Space Shuttle Atlantis eased toward Russia's Mir space station some 245 miles above the planet and locked into a docking hatch, creating the largest spacecraft ever assembled in orbit at that time. The mission was a deliberate act of partnership — American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts sharing meals, science, and the peculiar quiet of a station humming between day and night every ninety minutes. That single docking opened a decade of joint research that helped lay the groundwork for the International Space Station.

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