STS-71
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| Mission type | Shuttle-Mir |
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| Operator | NASA |
| COSPAR ID | 1995-030A |
| SATCAT no. | 23600 |
| Mission duration | 9 days, 19 hours, 23 minutes, 9 seconds |
| Distance travelled | 6,600,000 kilometres (4,100,000 mi) |
| Orbits completed | 153 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Atlantis |
| Payload mass | 12,191 kilograms (26,877 lb) |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 7 up 8 down |
| Members |
Robert L. Gibson Charles J. Precourt Ellen S. Baker Gregory J. Harbaugh Bonnie J. Dunbar |
| Launching |
Anatoly Solovyev Nikolai Budarin |
| Landing |
Gennady Strekalov Vladimir Dezhurov Norman E. Thagard |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 27 June 1995, 19:32:19 UTC |
| Launch site | Kennedy LC-39A |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 7 July 1995, 14:55:28 UTC |
| Landing site | Kennedy SLF Runway 15 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee | 342 kilometres (213 mi) |
| Apogee | 342 kilometres (213 mi) |
| Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
| Period | 88.9 min |
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking port | Kristall forward |
| Docking date | 29 June 1995, 13:00:16 UTC |
| Undocking date | 4 July 1995, 11:09:42 UTC |
| Time docked | 4 days, 22 hours, 9 minutes 26 seconds |
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 Left to right - Seated: Dezhurov, Gibson, Solovyev; Standing: Thagard, Strekalov, Harbaugh, Baker, Precourt, Dunbar, Budarin |
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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.
For the five days the shuttle was docked to Mir they were the largest spacecraft in orbit at the time. STS-71 marked the first docking of a space shuttle to a space station, the first time a shuttle crew switched members with the crew of a station, and the 100th manned space launch by the United States. The mission carried Spacelab and included a logistical resupply of Mir. Together the shuttle and station crews conducted various on-orbit joint US/Russian life science investigations with Spacelab along with the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment-II (SAREX-II) experiment.
The primary objectives of this flight were to rendezvous and perform the first docking between the Space Shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir on 29 June. In the first U.S.-Russian(Soviet) docking in twenty years, Atlantis delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to Mir.
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