LAUNCH CENTER
Success
Tue Jun 27 1995
Lockheed Martin Space Operations
STS-71
Launch Successful
LAUNCH PREVIEW
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(7:32 PM UTC)
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(7:32 PM UTC)
Launch Window End
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RECOVERY OVERVIEW
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Rocket Details
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MISSION OVERVIEW
- Type: Human Exploration
- STS-71 was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program and the first Space Shuttle docking to Russian space station Mir. It started on 27 June 1995 with the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to the station and recovered Increment astronaut Norman Thagard. Atlantis returned to Earth on 7 July with a crew of eight. It was the first of seven straight missions to Mir flown by Atlantis.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW
Location
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Pad
Launch Complex 39A