STS-74 crewmembers in Mir space station

STS074-324-030 (12-20 Nov 1995) --- Astronauts Chris A. Hadfield (left) and William S. McArthur, Jr. check out the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) onboard Russia?s Mir Space Station. With five NASA astronauts aboard, the flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis began with a November 12, 1995, launch from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and ended with landing there on November 20, 1995. The STS-74 crew members were astronauts Kenneth D. Cameron, mission commander; James D. Halsell, Jr., pilot; McArthur, Jerry L. Ross and Canadian astronaut Hadfield, all mission specialists. On November 15, 1995, the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the Mir Space Station, on which the STS-74 astronauts joined the Mir-20 crew. The Mir-20 crew is composed of cosmonauts Yuriy P. Gidzenko, commander; and Sergei V. Avdeyev, flight engineer; along with the European Space Agency?s (ESA) Thomas Reiter, cosmonaut researcher. Joint activities on the Mir Space Station and the Space Shuttle Atlantis ended November 18, 1995, when the two spacecraft separated.