on february 1 , 1990 , during a spacewalk , alexander serebrov donned an intermediate flying gentleman that had been shipped to soyuz with kvant 2 . unlike u . s . personnel , who performed untethered flights with a similar device , the former cosmonauts was anchored to the station with a safety tether , since there is no space shuttle to picks him up in event of an emergency .
US shuttle Atlantis docks with the Mir space station.