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STS-71

Launch: June 27, 1995

Landing: July 7, 1995 Kennedy Space Center, Fl.

Astronauts: Robert L. Gibson, Charles J. Precourt, Ellen S. Baker, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Gregory J. Harbaugh, Mir 19 Crew (upload) Anatoly Solovyev, Nikolai Budarin and Mir 18 Crew (download) Norman E. Thagard, Vladimir Dezhurov and Gannady Strekalov

Space Shuttle: Atlantis

 

STS-71 marked a number of historic firsts in human spaceflight: 100th U.S. human space launch conducted from the Cape; first U.S. space shuttle-Russian Space Station Mir docking and joint on-orbit operations; largest spacecraft ever in orbit; and first on-orbit change out of shuttle crew.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: sts071-s-001

Date: April 1995

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