and Christopher Williams

The transition between two successive resident Mir crews

with Sharipov serving as the mission’s Soyuz commander and ISS flight engineer

only months after his return and shortly before Buran’s historic first flight

equipment and station supplies between the two spacecraft

Tom Stafford – Apollo 10 crew at pad a-4 and Christopher WilliamsRare 8" 10" glossy photograph of the Apollo 10 crew at the launch pad, hand signed by mission commander Tom Stafford and inscribed, Fastest crew in the world. Flown in May 1969, Apollo 10 was the final full dress rehearsal for the first Moon landing. Stafford, John Young and Gene Cernan tested the complete Apollo spacecraft in lunar orbit, with Stafford and Cernan flying the Lunar Module to within approximately 15 kilometres of the Moons surface.