STS-71
STS-71 is a Space Shuttle program mission.
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| Mission: | STS-71 |
| Shuttle: | Atlantis |
| Launch Pad: | 39-A |
| Launch: | June 27, 1995
19:32:19 UTC |
| Landing: | KSC July 7, 1995 at 14:55:28 UTC on Runway 15. |
| Duration: | 9 days, 19 hours, 23 minutes, 9 seconds |
| Orbit Altitude: | 170 nautical miles (315 km) |
| Orbit Inclination: | 51.6 degrees |
| Distance Traveled: | 4.1 million miles (6.6 million km) |
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Previous Mission:
STS-67 |
Next Mission:
STS-70 |
Crew
Launched: Mir-19 Crew
Landed: Mir-18 Crew
Mission Parameters
1st Mir docking mission
- Docked: June 29, 1995, 13:00:16 UTC
- Undocked: July 4, 1995, 11:09:42 UTC
- Time Docked: 4 days, 22 h, 9 min, 26 s
Mission Highlights
The primary objectives of this flight were to rendezvous and perform the first Shuttle docking between the Space Shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir on June 29. In the first such docking in twenty years, Atlantis delivered relief crew of two cosmonauts.
Other prime objectives are on-orbit joint United States of America-Russian life sciences investigations aboard SPACELAB/Mir, logistical resupply of the Mir, recovery of US astronaut - Norman E. Thagard and the delivery of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to Mir.
Secondary objectives include filming with the IMAX camera and the Space science
