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In this June 1998 handout picture from NASA, Russia's Mir space station is photographed during the final fly-around of the Space Shuttle Discovery before docking. The Mir space station's 15-year voyage ended Friday, March 23, 2001 in a spectacular shower of blazing debris over the South Pacific, as computer screens in the Mission Control room went eerily blank and Russians gave the orbiter a dignified farewell. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/NASA/Str)