Shortly before dawn, a red-rimmed moon helped to light the way for the Space Shuttle Atlantis as it rolled out to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for launch of Mission STS-86 on September 26, 1997. STS-86 was the seventh docking of the Space Shuttle with the Russian Space Station Mir. [3000 x 2048]

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