1.   Having shut down their communications, they were forced to shift to the Soyuz space craft docked alongside to talk to ground control.

2.   The crew is firing the jets of the Soyuz space craft docked alongside the space station to reorient the Mir and direct its solar arrays at the sun.

3.   That craft docked with the Russian orbiting space station Mir, where Merbold set a record for an ESA astronaut by spending one month aboard.

4.   The crews of the US shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir shook hands early Thursday as their craft docked for a five-day rendezvous in space.