Here's the link to the full-size image where I got the excerpt: http://www.habitablezone.com/album/robert/s71eh077.jpg (about 1 megabyte). I was developing that article mostly by examining parts of just that one image, it's so rich with detail.
Another detail that grabbed me was Gagarin's photo on a bulkhead:
I thought of it when Mir deorbited, and I had this vision of Yuri iconically riding the station down in a fireball, in a sort of a heroic Viking funeral.
Ironically, I don't derive the same enjoyment from looking at ISS interiors. The place seems a bit sterile (the classic NASA touch), but maybe that's just because it hasn't been lived in long enough. When the walls are scuffed and there are knicknacks wedged into odd corners and pinups taped to the wall and dirty dishes velcroed to the sink...then it'll feel like home! (yeah yeah, I'm such a guy, I confess.)
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