At the Skid Strip on Cape Canaveral Air Station, astronaut C. Michael Foale prepares to return to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He spent approximately four-and-a-half months living and working aboard the Russian Space Station Mir. Foale returned to Earth Oct. 6 aboard the Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis, which docked with the Mir during the just-completed STS-86 Shuttle mission. Foale was replaced on the Mir by STS-86 Mission Specialist David A. Wolf - NASA Kennedy Center Media Archive Collection