His flight to Mir was intended to provide genuine spaceflight experience and to investigate whether exposure to weightlessness affected the demanding piloting skills required to operate the Soviet space shuttle

the three men became the first crew to live and work permanently aboard the station

Oleg Kononenko

3 months after Gemini 6 and 7 the Gemini 8 spacecraft with the two astronauts Armstrong and Scott has launched to perform a docking with an unmanned "Agena target vehicle" launched one and a half-hour earlier

Official NASA 8 × 10-inch glossy photograph

Soyuz TM-6 – crewsigned launch cover - Afghan cosmonaut Jack Schmitt His flight to Mir wasSoyuz TM 6 crew hand signed launch cover Baikonur by Lyachov, Polyakov and Abdul ahad Momand from Afghanistan. Excelent condition.