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Once Upon a Time in Space
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The Shuttle–Mir Program was an unprecedented collaboration between former Cold War rivals Russia and the U.S. But when American astronauts began arriving in Star City to train with their Russian counterparts, each group had to learn to navigate the other’s customs and traditions. In this clip, Cosmonaut Sasha Lazutkin’s wife Lyudmila highlights the amusing contrasts between entertaining.
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The arrival of the International Space Station promises a new era of cooperation in space.
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When the Soviet Union falls, Russia welcomes US astronauts to their space station Mir.
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A pioneering class of astronauts is recruited by NASA to fly aboard its new Space Shuttle.