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The Shuttle-Mir program was born in July 1991 when President George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed an agreement for a Soviet cosmonaut to fly aboard the space shuttle, and a U.S. astronaut to fly a Soyuz-TM mission. The two great powers had wanted to build on the Apollo-Soyuz mission of 1975 for some time; there had been suggestions that a Soyuz would visit Skylab, but that was deemed unpractical because of the differences in the docking interface between the two craft. There had also even been a suggestion in 1984 that the shuttle dock with Salyut 7 in a sort of simulated space rescue, but nothing ever came of the idea.
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(2007). Shuttle-Mir: Real co-operation. In: The Story of Manned Space Stations. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68488-8_10
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