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Go to topicA music clip which covers the joint ESA/Russian space mission, Euromir '94. It features Dr. Ulf Merbold travel to the space station Mir on October 3rd, 1994. Dr. Ulf Merbold spent 30 days there conducting a series of experiments.
The video consists of a series of clips regarding the Russian space station as an example of images produced by ESA's in-flight camera system.