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STS-66

Launch: November 3, 1994

Landing: November 14, 1994 Edwards Air Force Base, Cal.

Astronauts: Donald R. McMonagle, Curtis L. Brown Jr., Ellen Ochoa, Scott E. Parazynski, Joseph R. Tanner and Jean-Francois Clervoy

Space Shuttle: Atlantis

 

For retrieval of CRISTA-SPAS (one of many experiments), different approach method to spacecraft was successfully tested as prelude to upcoming U.S. Shuttle/Russian Space Station Mir docking flights. Called R-Bar approach, it is expected to save propellant while reducing risk of contamination to Mir systems from orbiter thruster jet firings.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: sts066-s-001

Date: October 1994

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