STS-86 Joint Space Shuttle Atlantis/Mir - Earth Observation

View of the city of Christchurch and the Banks Peninsula on the South Island, New Zealand, as seen during Space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS-86, 26th September to 6th October 1997. STS-86 mission is the seventh Shuttle/Mir docking mission and is part of the NASA/Mir program, consisting of nine Shuttle-Mir docking missions in total.