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.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts066-s-001
Date: October 1994
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.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts066-s-001
Date: October 1994