STS-86
Launched: September 25, 1997, 10:34:19 p.m. EDT
Landing: October 6, 1997, 5:55:09 p.m. EDT, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Crew: Commander James D. Wetherbee, Pilot Michael J. Bloomfield, Mission Specialists Vladimar G. Titov, Scott E. Parazynski, Jean-Loup J. M. Chretien, Wendy B. Lawrence and David A. Wolf
During the STS-86 mission, the seventh Mir docking mission continued the presence of a U.S. astronaut on the Russian space station with the transfer of physician David A. Wolf to Mir. Wolf became the sixth U.S. astronaut in succession to live on Mir to continue Phase 1B of the NASA/Russian Space agency cooperative effort. The first joint U.S.-Russian extravehicular activity during a shuttle mission, which was also the 39th in the space shuttle program, was conducted by Titov and Parazynski.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts086-s-001
Date: May 1997
STS-86
Launched: September 25, 1997, 10:34:19 p.m. EDT
Landing: October 6, 1997, 5:55:09 p.m. EDT, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Crew: Commander James D. Wetherbee, Pilot Michael J. Bloomfield, Mission Specialists Vladimar G. Titov, Scott E. Parazynski, Jean-Loup J. M. Chretien, Wendy B. Lawrence and David A. Wolf
During the STS-86 mission, the seventh Mir docking mission continued the presence of a U.S. astronaut on the Russian space station with the transfer of physician David A. Wolf to Mir. Wolf became the sixth U.S. astronaut in succession to live on Mir to continue Phase 1B of the NASA/Russian Space agency cooperative effort. The first joint U.S.-Russian extravehicular activity during a shuttle mission, which was also the 39th in the space shuttle program, was conducted by Titov and Parazynski.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts086-s-001
Date: May 1997