The resident crew added further historical importance

and visiting Shuttle crews entered the station to carry out maintenance

Richard Gordon

The cover was postmarked aboard the ISS on June 8

STS-71 - Soyuz TM-21 first docking - Space Shuttle FLOWN cover Challenger The resident crew added furtherSTS 71 First ShuttleMir Docking Flown Cover, Signed by Solovyev and Budarin A very rare official cover carried aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station during STS 71, one of the defining missions of post Cold War space exploration. The cover was flown from Earth aboard Atlantis and postmarked aboard Mir on June 29, 1995the exact date of the first docking between an American Space Shuttle and the Russian orbital station. It is hand signed